Tuesday thirtieth April, 2024 – Richard Phillips Racing

With the brand new season beginning we have now made entries for Lesser, Elfride and The Final Drop within the coming week.  Hopefully the bottom shall be protected with out being too quick for the runners as many haven’t been suited by the heavy floor of final season.

On Friday morning it was nice to welcome Deni Harper-Adams from Kingsleighs Equestrian Centre who introduced over a few younger riders who’ve been funded by the Pony Racing Affiliation Youth Jockey Pathway programme.  Each twelve-year-olds are resulting from journey at Cheltenham quickly in a pony race and it was nice to have the ability to present them the within workings of a racing yard.  We’re all the time eager to welcome younger individuals into the game and loads of good work is occurring all through the nation to encourage this.

On Sunday I used to be invited to the launch of Chris Haslam’s new guide, ‘Leaping Into Jeopardy’ at Cheltenham racecourse.  I’ve identified Chris for a very long time and he’s a retired schoolmaster who taught at Cheltenham Faculty amongst different locations.  One in all his former pupils Tom Scudamore was current, together with different jockeys together with Nico De Boinville and David Bass all of whom helped Chris write this fascinating guide on jockeys lives.  It’s undoubtedly price a learn.

Worldwide occasion rider Invoice Levett got here to educate the employees this morning of their using method.  Invoice is a superb trainer and that is one thing everybody all the time enjoys and the periods are of nice profit to people and horses.

Congratulations to Willie Mullins on the exceptional achievement of being champion jumps coach in Britain.  I liked his reply to my congratulatory textual content which was an image of numerous the bottom sporting Willie Mullins masks, with a observe saying ‘thanks from all of us’.

Willie is a unprecedented character – a captivating genius, however is aware of every thing has gone to plan this 12 months and it received’t yearly.

Very unhappy information that Shishkin died on Sunday night resulting from getting solid.  This reveals how precarious life is, nonetheless the response to this  unhappy information proves how a lot he was liked.