WINNER!
After what seems like months of no runners it was great to get out this week, with Entertain Me (Charlie) and Galactic Power (Paige Jeffrey) both running nice races at Chepstow on Tuesday. Windy Miller hugely improved to finish 3rd at Wolverhampton under the impressive William Carson.
To Warwick yesterday with Under The Phone and Be My Witness.
Under the Phone’s first run for us and The Tricksters, a lovely horse who will want further, but the mission was to find out a bit about him, He was a bit keen early but ran well to finish fourth. Further required to see him at his best.
Be My Witness was to make sure that there was plenty of pace on, and although she was allowed to lead the other runners under our amateur, Toby Wheeler we were expecting to see her get outpaced as they got near home. ‘Spice’ had other ideas though and as they turned in Toby still had petrol in the tank! With AP and Harry Skelton bearing down on him, Toby kept a cool head and went to the last as if on a handicapper – the filly was excellent and a great jump at the last saw the pair land running, and despite his best efforts the champ could not get past our game filly!
A first win for Toby so a day he will remember for ever. Most of the team had come to Warwick to watch so there was plenty of cheering from the last to the line! Not least from Tobys' mum Julie who was seen needing a fairly large tissue supply! Sadly Mrs Merry not feeling up to the trip, but was also cheering from a friends’ sofa as she watching on the TV!
Slightly disappointed that AP could not have been a little more gracious in defeat – we all know that he hates to be beaten, but a ‘well done’ to Toby would have meant a lot.
An outing to The Bell in Stow to celebrate last night was very enjoyable, when the home team joined Mrs Merry to raise a glass to the winning pair. Tobys' family there too so a good night!
Happily all the horses fine after their runs.
The other big event of the week was Hollie Rooney’s 21st birthday! Holly has been with us since she was 14, and the team were keen to organise a bit of a bash for her – after quite a bit of subterfuge and with the help of her parents and boyfriend Ben Poste, we managed to pull off a complete surprise party in the marquee that Nic kindly left up after Open Day!
Happy Birthday Holly!!
Two BTO’s for Holly this week with Windy Miller at Wolverhampton and Under The Phone at Warwick helped her week along nicely!