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SEPTEMBER 2018 CheltenhamFINISH & Three Counties LINE Race Club WELCOME BACK FOR THE NEW JUMPS SEASON CONTENTS Editor’s Notes Editor’s Notes NICK SCHOLFIELD Welcome back after a glorious summer. I hope you have all had a wonderfully relaxing time and have taken in some JOHN HALES summer racing. I have seen plenty of you around the LUCY SHARP tracks over the summer which has been great to have a JO O’NEILL catch up. ROSEMARY PROSSER We had our wonderful picnic back in May on the same evening on which the Davis Family presented the Richard TABITHA WORSLEY Davis Award but not to James Bowen (the winner) but to DAVID MASSEY his brother Sean and father KATIE MILLER Peter. CTCRC NEWS & RICHARD DAVIS AWARD Elegant Olive had a wonderfully behaved parade at Worcester and a small write up will appear in a UPTON VIVA future newsletter. OBITUARY I will apologise for the lateness and amateurish “Members will be sad to hear of the death of quality of the newsletter but as you know we have no Cynthia Bussey. Cynthia and her husband graphic designer so I have spent a month Ernest were members for many years (possibly learning Adobe Indesign to try and bring you some sort of over 30) and enjoyed taking part in the newsletter. The download newsletter is always available competitions and being part of the Cheltenham on the website as soon as it is completed which is normal- racing community, right up to her final illness. ly 2 weeks before the printed version so do please go on- Cynthia attended Cheltenham Race meetings line. every year and enjoyed the visits to stables and The winter jumps season is nearly upon us again which to the pre-festival talks. Two days before she means your annual membership for died she was asking as to where her Cheltenham will be due. horses were in the many lists she had entered I look forward to seeing you at meetings and stable visits. in the competition. Her competitive spirit will be Please remember this is your club so do missed. “ contact me with any ideas. SJM Susan Doswell Cover photo Nigel Kirby summer — which is a nice boost at this time of year. John hales Summer tracks have done extremely well this summer Column with all the hot weather we have had .... keeping the tracks All of our horses are now back Nick again.. safe and consistent is much in training and we are looking harder than it sounds. It’s not forward to a successful season. I I’m looking forward to sharing been all work .... there was have been told by the Jockey Club my experiences of the a break in the calendar in that one of our horses may receive August and this really gives 2018/19 National Hunt season some form of recognition at the £340,000 last season but it was you chance to recharge the with you. As a freelance awards night on September 28th. in his last race at Aintree when he batteries ready for the long professional jockey, it’s key to We will be taking a table and I hope won the Melling Chase with the season ahead. ride out as much as you can that those members that go to the introduction of a tongue tie that he this time of year. I ride out for I’m really looking forward to Jockey Club presentation night on showed what a top class horse he is several trainers, but mainly the season ahead as I am sure 28th September will have a very and out stayed Min in the battle for Jeremy Scott and Jack Barber you all are. I just hope to stay enjoyable evening. The horses the line. We have the King George who give me the main supply injury free and hope to get on that have gone to Dan Skelton are on Boxing Day in our sights but it of my winners. I really enjoy the right horses on the right Aux Ptits Soins and if he gets his will depend on how he stays over riding out. days! confidence back has all the ability 2.5 miles in his first race which will to compete in the World Hurdle. A probably be at Ascot. I am expecting This time of the year all the new comer is Eclair Danaiy a 4 yo a big improvement in both the winter horses have enjoyed French bred who gave an excellent Dellercheckout following a wind their summer breaks and it’s performance when he made his operation and Ibis Du Rheu who exciting to see which horses debut at Autueil. Watch out for if he can stay sound should have a have grown and matured. All Just Rocky who we bred and is good season. your geese are swans at this now owned by Halmurrit Racing. A new comer is Flash Collonges time of year I think the saying Particularly of interest is the Mare purchased by the Gi Gi partnership. goes! Marie Banreigh who following a He is related to Neptune Collonges wind operation, won at Market and is a very nice type but, with the Jump racing is at its quietest Rasen and she will be well in at the breeding, will have a lot to live up at the moment but I’ve Weights when she makes her debut to. The GiGi partnership have sold had a couple of winners which will probably be in October. Gibbs Bay but hope their potential recently — Moorlands Paul Nicholls has Politologue and star performer Brio Conte should Jack, Gorilla Tactics and I am hoping for great things in the be back by Christmas following an Kilmurvy all for Jeremy coming season. He won over injury he picked up last season. Scott have all done well this odd steady canter round the fields time I tried to take a photo of him horses in training with Paul, they by the hedges and the odd circle he began nuzzeling my arm, so pop in to see Dodge too. They are in trot in the corner where there that didn’t happen. He loved her attending Paul’s open day for all weren’t many or if any cracks to digging in to his muscles and giving the owners to come and see their go around. him his massage, at one point it horses parade and have lunch with was so nice he started curling the fellow owners. On the way they are making a stop to see the main Dodge’s New Adventure That aside, Dodge is coming round her and pushing her in the on very nicely considering. He’s right direction. Bless him, he’s a man. Hopefully they are happy with Since our last post we’ve been becoming very soft and round in true gent. what they see as much as I am. concentrating on getting ourselves an out line and starting to move We love seeing them too. We are (me included) up together, fit forward in his paces rather then up We also had the saddler out to all in regular contact through group and balanced. The weather that and down on the spot. I’ve started measure him up and fit him with his messages so they are always we’ve been having over the winter to really enjoy working him on the first ever very own saddle. We’ve up to date with everything that is months hasn’t helped us out and flat now (it’s never really been my had to make do up until now with going on but its never the same as has put a stop to some of the things favourite discipline) I can start to my race exercise saddle which was seeing someone in person. we were planning to do. At home, relax now and enjoy it instead of fine in his eyes because that’s all I have plenty of space and open holding his hand the whole time to he’s ever been used to, but now We have also been asked to attend fields for us to play in and we have reassure him. we are getting down to the serious Blenheim Horse Trials in mid full rein of the farm, which is great. business, I got my bum in gear and September, to take part in the RoR We can gallop, school on the flat In the middle of July he had a visit sorted him out. To be honest, he’s parade they have there. Hopefully and even just have a stroll around from the equine physio. He loved changed shape so much over the all will go well, we are both looking mum and dads planted woodland it!!! No real problems, just a little last 8 months that I’ve been riding forward to it. Lucy Sharp on the farm. It’s a great place to tight in muscles I don’t think he him out of racing that It would have warm up/ cool off for Dodge too. even knew existed when he was in cost me a fortune in re flocking the Trouble is, this weather tried its racing. For you that followed Dodge saddle all the time. Now I’ve been hardest to put a stop to all our plans in his racing career will know what riding him in a ‘proper’ saddle, what for this summer. The ground dried I mean when I say Dodge spent a difference its made. Like I said out and went very hard and cracks most of his time looking up in to the earlier, it’s allowed him to stretch came, big enough that Dodge sky instead of looking down at his a lot more and when jumping it would have fallen in to them if he toes bless him.