Monday seventeenth June, 2024 – Richard Phillips Racing

It was fantastic to see Mattie Ross win her first race over hurdles for us at Market Rasen on Friday night.  Given a superb experience by Finn Lambert, she raced simply off the chief who set a powerful tempo and he or she jumped with nice fluency.  Taking it up after the second final, she galloped on strongly to the road giving her very affected person homeowners an evening to recollect.

Mattie is a very fashionable member of the string and all the time offers her finest.  We sit up for her persevering with to present the Zara Syndicate loads of enjoyable and success over hurdles and fences sooner or later.  We’ll see what the climate does earlier than deciding whether or not or to not give her a break.

Delighted that our racing commentator Malcolm Tomlinson was capable of name Mattie house as he has been a pal for a lot of a long time and up till now had solely finished the commentary on a few of our runner ups.  Might there be many extra nice calls to come back from him!

As a consequence of an excessive amount of rain at Uttoxeter, we didn’t run both Shibuya Music or Methodtothemagic as they like a sound floor, while Neeps And Tatties has annoyingly pulled a muscle.  We’ll search for options within the coming weeks.

Ned Money runs within the 5.15pm at Stratford tomorrow – a two miles novices handicap hurdle.  It’s his first time in a handicap and hopefully now he’s studying to settle higher he can be extra aggressive, though finally he’ll in all probability want additional than this to be at his finest.  Sam Twiston-Davies takes the experience whom proprietor Althea Barclay, met inside hours of his beginning and Althea will nice satisfaction to see Sam using in her colors as soon as once more.

Royal Ascot begins tomorrow and I’m lucky to be attending on Wednesday and Friday.  It’s all the time a beautiful week viewing among the finest horses on the earth and good luck to all.