Week Ending 22nd December

Monday 16th
Another cracking day with 3 winners from our 6 runners.
Glendine Girl got a much deserved win in her A6 as she led all the way to win in 29.89.
Lovely youngster Forest Lexie, firmly left the A4 grade behind her today as she led all the way to win by 3 lengths in 29.23. She's a long way off being fully matured yet and will make a nice bitch next year.
Jet Stream Girl made it a hat trick of wins as she came from behind kennel mate Stanton Ovation to win their A4 by 1 1/2 lengths in 29.82.
Over at Coventry, Forest Bound ran his heart out to finish 2nd in his semi final of the Golden Muzzle but he unfortunately finished injured with a chipped hock and misses the chance to run in the final. Freddie should make a full recovery though and will be back on track in a couple of months.
Tuesday 17th
Glenmire Warrior graded at Swindon today with a fluent 28.88 trial win. He'd not been suited to Romford so we decided to give him a graded run or two before heading back out on the open race scene at more galloping tracks. He beat Gemstone Meg by 3 1/4 lengths but she returned with a nasty cut to her foot and faces another spell on the easy list.
Fairhill Paddy moved well to record 28.80 after his fall at Henlow and will now head back to Romford.
Unraced pup, Swansalona Diva, produced a stunning qualifying trial this morning. This was her first ever four bend run and she won by 12 3/4 lengths in 28.99. It was quite an incredible effort considering the lack of schooling and work she's had. She looks like she could make a top class stayer. Her brother, Swansalona Bolt qualified for racing today with his 30.08 effort.
Wednesday 18th
The very long delay in getting racing underway proved to be worth the wait as we had another couple of winners plus the forecast in the owners bonus series.
Tseal made it two wins on the trot as he led at the first bend to just hold off kennel mate Alarming Arti by a short head in 29.26 to win the £500 owners bonus final. It's been hard work with Tseal since he joined the kennels and it's great that the patience his owners have shown has been rewarded.
Gleannrue Mario won his first race at Swindon by 2 1/4 in 29.22 as he led from halfway in his A2.
Thursday 19th
A huge night for the kennel as Droopys Danneel won the English Oaks at Belle Vue.
It's a dream come true for us to win our first Classic and Danneel was a very deserving winner of the £15,000 first prize.
She broke well but got turned sideways at the bend but showed huge guts and determination to force her way to the front on the third bend before staying on strongly to win by a length.
Although she's more than capable of carrying on racing at the very top level, Danni is now 3 years old and there's little else to achieve once you've won the Oaks so she's now been retired to the breeding paddocks.
Danni had 19 races for the kennel, she won 12 of these, finished 2nd 6 times and was 4th in the other race which was after seasonal break. Not a bad record at all!
It's almost impossible to replace a bitch of this class and attitude but she'll leave us with some great memories and we'll never forgot our first Oaks winner.
Friday 20th
A few winners at Swindon today.
Sligo Mick got the ball rolling as he flew the lids and led all the way to win his A2 in 29.10.
Forest Pearl took full advantage of a drop to A3 class as she led all the way to win by 5 lengths in 29.30. I don't think we've seen the best of this girl by a long way yet and I'd expect some good improvement in the better weather next year.
Burgess Ali won her first race back since injury as she led at the first bend to win in 29.91.
Smoothoppa Razor led all the way in her A2 to win in 29.20.
Allen Buttercup won the bitches open at Romford in good style as she won by 1 1/2 lengths in 24.32.
Saturday 21st
Zamboni Zazzle made it a clean sweep of finals for the kennel this week as she led all the way in her £500 Owners Bonus Series to win by 1 length in 29.29.
Redlion Enfield missed all the trouble in her race as she was left clear to win by over 13 lengths in a personal best 29.53.
Gemstone Jack got a much deserved win in his A1 as he stayed strongly to beat kennel mate, Jet Stream Olly by 1/2 a length in 29.00. It was good to see Jack back to winning ways and hopefully he'll continue to improve. I think a lot of people forget how talented this lad is on his day.
Sunday 22nd
Jet Stream Odds made a disappointing exit from the Xmas Cracker at Henlow tonight as he was slowly away and got crowded early. Although Ozzy tends to rail the bends, we may try this fellow with a wide seed and see how he gets on as his first instinct is always to move right from the traps.
It was great to see Jolly Bullseye back to winning ways as he pinged the lids and led all the way to win his open in 27.70. Bullseye had ran a stinker the week before but we couldn't find any reason for it so decided to keep him racing and it proved the right move. He's had so little running of late that I think he was just lacking that race sharpness but hopefully he's back to himself and will head to Sittingbourne next time.