A clear highlight for me on the flat was Ghosttrain winning leg 3 of the Championship Sprint. Some other good efforts too with Songstress finishing a close up 3rd in the Bet365 hcap and Funofthefair found only Martin's Russian Foxbat too good in the MD Championship. Philosophical also produced a solid effort in the Summer Hcap. Biggest disappointment was Arctic Prince who didn't run any sort of race at all and was beaten a long way out in the Gordon Stakes

Over the jumps I thought Ice Maiden was going to win the first race of the week only to be mugged by Martyn's horse close home, then Close Action made no mistake in the Mandarin jumping well throughout. Great run from Leon's top weight Cafe Treasure in 2nd too.

Well done all winners and placers and thanks to the team.

It is officially my best ever season with 5 winners after Give Jwala won the Darren Howells Stayers.
I wasn't confident at the start of the race with my horse being top weight but during the race I thought my horse had the most even run.
When James Shea's horse hit the lead I wasn't confident my horse could run down a top trainers horse but Give Jwala did that and did it well.
Good to see Darren have a race named after him - pity he couldn't win it but I was honoured to do so.

Doug

Congrats Doug, it was a good effort.

Good to see Martin Leedham win

Glad to avoid the gelding but not too keen on the Theresa May bit !

Which would you prefer

One win this week which continues a streak of at least 1 win a week for 4 weeks now. Last season I made a note to put some marathon horses in my stable to take advantage of the small fields in the marathon handicaps. It's worked out well with some wins and a bunch of placings.

The Haskell was the race of the week. Joshua almost won it with his longshot but Paul's horse gamely nailed him at the wire. Great race!

The final furlong of the Haskell...

https://youtu.be/YajFf2t7Li8?t=2m8s

Bad luck for Josh as his horse looked home and then it just ran out of legs.

Two winners this week for me. Enzo Scifo with two in a row and Utah Bulwark with his maiden win after a great finish. 9 horses in the money deems it a good week for me. I even had some NH horses managing to jump over all the obstacles and finish a race.

Some great races overall this week, the Haskell was legendary and some of the chases yesterday was mayhem. Great fun to watch.

Congrats to all the winners and placers and a big thanks to the team. Enjoy the second day of Royal Ascot everyone.

3 winners for me, two on the flat, handicaps of course, "Iraqui Copper" finally getting a sprint win & at the other end a 2m win with "Northern Bird" who both won well going away from the field & a lucky NH win "Woods of Windsor" when most of the horses fell or pulled up, a few others in the money all round.

Well done to all who take part & the Team of course....

Just came back from a week of holidays and had to watch 4 days of racing.

Unlucky with Meskaline Stardust in the G1 Markel Nassau Stakes, she ran from the top and led till the line to be caught by Rafha from John Morgan! Damn! This would have been my first G1 win! Still proud of her, didn't expect this.

What a week with 3 wins over the sticks bringing the total to 9!

Ashton - Conpleted a hat trick of wins in the Peter Marsh Chase. He is now rated 146 so may to think about graded races which is brilliant for my little stable

Stretford - Winner of the hunter chase, just holding on. Still rated under 100 so likely to keep to these races.

Elfburg - Very impressive winner of 4m maiden handicap so could have more to give

Still waiting for my first win of the flat season, this week was especially bad.

Well done to all winners and placers and many thanks to all involved in the league