By our own admission, the quality of summer Jump fixtures caters generally for less than top flight horses with some notable exceptions. The long traditions of the British season mean the best horses...
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Warm Spring sunshine beckoned a healthy crowd to Luddington Road yesterday where good ground greeted the 56 runners in our seven race card, considerably better ground than faced the Irish challengers...
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The damp Spring has resulted in excellent fields at the Jumps fixtures in April to date - there were 163 runners over Cheltenham's two day fixture last week and the Scottish National fixture was also...
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Friday's rain had made the ground heavy for our second meeting, which made for some nip-and-tuck finishes to the first three races. In fact, the winning distances across all 6 races were less than...
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It was a day for binoculars - an increasingly rare site on racecourses - but only the gauge the distance from winner to placed horses in a day of long winning distances for the most part, to see out...
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New recruit Hermes Allen repaid a little over 1% of his purchase price when winning the Maiden Hurdle at Stratford on Saturday, earning £4,084 toward his splendid £350,000 purchase tag. The...
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Autumn brings a changing of the guard in the Jumps game, where winter horses brought in from their summer holidays in July make their first appearances of the season as October breaks and the leaves...
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Just 35 runners joined the party for what often identifies as Stratford's first autumn fixture at a time where the top yards are beginning to flex their muscles. The long hot and rainless summer has...
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"Racing for the industry" was the phrase former Stratford Clerk of Course John Ford described mid week racing, but that was long before the era of summer jumping, which transformed the fortunes of...
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