Friday 27th August - Ali’s Blog
August 27th, 2010A quiet week again this week, with not too many runners. SONORAN SANDS finished a good second in the Listed race at Salisbury last friday. BELIEVE IT OR NOT picked up a bit of prize money in the Sales Race at Ripon on Saturday but would have been closer had he not been bumped when coming out of the stalls.
The weather has played havoc with the going this week and the best of our other runners during the week was a 2nd from PURPLE GALLERY at Brighton on Wednesday.
Stan has been at the first yearling sales in the UK at Doncaster this week where trade was good and returned home with four new purchases - two colts and two fillies. One of the colts is a full brother to FULLBACK who has served us very well in the past and looks just like him !! We also have a Dark Angel Colt out of Spinning Gold, a Jeremy/Second Prayer Filly and a Byron/Halland Park Girl Filly. We will get pictures and their pedigrees up on the website early next week, so please feel free to have a look if you are interested in buying one or even a share.
A quite weekend with only one runner later today at Bath - APPYJACK. We pulled our two runners out at Newmarket due to a change in the going, it now being soft. KINKY AFRO continues her international campaign and flies out to Turkey on Tuesday night for her Group race which is at Istanbul on Saturday 4th September. Stan will go out next week on Thursday leaving Sara and myself to a bit of peace and quiet !!