Saturday, 9 February 2008

Welsh Wonder Does It Again!


As reported last week, we sent out one of our largest ever strings of horses to the races and what a set of results!

Recently, we reported on our naming policy and for those who managed to read the whole article they will remember that my second crop of foals were burdened with very unpronounceable names (and also very hard to spell!). The best of the lot has proven to be a mare with the name of Ab-Daledigaeth (Stephen Got Even x Spectacular Wiggle) and her name means "child of revenge - or very close to it! She was originally entered in a G3 3+F race over 6.5f but, after gentle nudging from the esteemed player DJ who runs the highly succesful Weeping Moon stable, we change her to the A Gleam Handicap over 7f on dirt, but still restricted to 3+F. And boy are we grateful! She trounced the field winning by over 2l and carrying 121lbs whilst the 2nd horse (Memoir of KRF Stables) only carried 107lbs. This now takes her race record to 31-13-3-4 and earning of $1,485,300 and there is still 26 weeks of the season left to break $2mil. This win may make us reconsider her next race which was due to be over the regular 6f. This week also saw a very good set of performances in by our 2yr olds,
Hungrylikethewolf and Ms. Original come home 2nd and 3rd in a G3 5.5f turf event, winning $25,000 and $10,000 respectively. Both will be out again soon in similar conditions.

Another nice performance was seen by
Norwegian Blue who seems to be hitting her stride (pardon the pun!). She finished 3rd on a yeilding Royal Ascot track and her efforts put another $45,000 into her account.

Bringing home some 4th placed money were
Two Sheckles ($7,500), Danceswithwolves ($2,500) and Elidor ($3,750).

Slightly disappointed by the runs of
Gonewiththewind, Royal Ensign, The Foggy One, Electrical Barbarella, Knight of Ni and Planet Earth. SpanishInquisition (Ab-D's full brother) was scratched due to the conditions.

That means this week we added $243,750 to our accounts meaning we have finally managed to break the magical $1millon mark for the season! Phew that was hard work, but it does mean a big stable party for all the hard work shown by our staff.

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