2024 was not an easy year, but both Smugglers Haven and Mr Vango have kept us all cheered with two good wins for Smugglers Haven and a brave feat of mental strength and stamina by Mr Vango in the valuable London National at Sandown at Christmas. Both have been a great pleasure to care for […]
Promising beginnings We went to the Cheltenham sale in 2022 to try and buy Mr Vango after seeing him win very impressively at Horseheath, and we were pleasantly surprised to be able to buy him for reasonable money. Last winter the rain seemed to never stop and poor Mark was losing his battle with cancer, […]
Bet 365 Gold Cup at Sandown Step Back gave us all a day to remember on the last day of the 2017 – 2018 season when he was the runaway victor of the Bet 365 Gold Cup (previously known as the Whitbread) to add another Big Win to our incredible tally of wins in the […]
A sea of grinning faces greeted the heroic Flintham in the winner’s enclosure at Warwick, after he displayed a typically gritty, front-running and brilliant jumping performance in the Pertemps Cheltenham Festival qualifier.
Coneygree surely needs no introduction, and this talented homebred gelding certainly proved himself when he became the first novice to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup since 1974, by clinching the 2015 title.
Despite an eventful start to the race, the heroic Carruthers proved just how much ability he has and in 2011 he won the prestigious Hennessy Gold Cup.
King Harald galloped and jumped beautifully all the way. After a nail-biting finish, the memory of him winning the Jewsons Handicap Chase at Cheltenham will always be a racing highlight.