Category: News

Jack and John take a whistle stop tour through our flat class of 2024 with some very exciting members amongst the squad. Enjoy!

Sometimes your greatest adventures can happen without ever having to leave your couch. In fact, this adventure begins down the back of the couch with

A potential star is born in a legendary stable. Two rocket ships named by their owners. Gold Cup or Friday night lights? Foal Watch – some cracking new additions. Enjoy!

Spring is in the air with 2-y-o’s stepping up, mares scanning in foal and young NH horses working towards debuts. Hall Of Famer take centre stage. Bouttemont’s first mares scanned in foal plus news of a very exciting new addition who is very much in the mould of a former Syndicates.Racing star.

Syndicates dream team have owners dreaming. #BoutteCall is in full flow with his first mares scanned in foal. Plus news of two sires we’re particularly fond of who had a big weekend. Enjoy!

The doctor has scribbled his hurried prescription for a better Cheltenham Festival. 


The Mares’ Hurdle, the Mares’ Chase and Mares’ Novice Hurdle should be converted into 0-150 mares-only handicaps (a lower bracket for novices). It’s a good idea at first glance. Have your best 150 plus mares compete in the marquee races with a 7 lb pound allowance. Create competitiveness through the magic of the handicapping system for all the remaining mares below the top rung.

Murtagh’s fillies in fine order for latest stable tour success. The Far Above whispers grow ever stronger plus details of a brand new syndicate launched this week. Enjoy!

I’d like to buy a mare.

A fleeting thought for many perhaps. Maybe you get as far as flicking through a breeding stock catalogue. Very few have the bravery to follow through. Gavin Boyle contacted Kevin Blake and myself this week and asked for help as he told us he’d like to buy his first mare. However,  it wasn’t a fleeting thought for Gavin. He traveled down from Lavey, Derry and returned with his first thoroughbred mare in his horse box. I thought it would be useful to tell the story of how we approached it and perhaps show that it’s possible for you too. 

Aussies continue to sparkle. Big morning ahead with Johnny Murtagh and Bouttemont’s book is filling up. All this and much more. Enjoy!

It’s back to school today after the long weekend in Ireland so here’s my report card for the Dublin Racing Festival. 

Big crowd set for DRF. Grangee gives birth. Milan set for Monday debut and Fifty continues to impress. New Grade 1 winner for Jeu St Eloi and guess who has the only filly by the sire to be sold at public auction last year? Enjoy!

It’s 1 am on Monday morning. I look at my phone.

A new owner I’ve never spoken to in Liverpool has found us on the internet and just bought shares in our Diamond Boy filly and our Jeu St Eloi filly. They join our WhatsApp groups right away. I text them – “Hi, I’m Jack. Thanks very much for the support, you’ve bought a share in two beautiful fillies there.” I hesitate but I pick my phone back up to write again before he replies – “You’re hardly watching the NFL as well are you?”.

He had backed the Kansas City Chiefs too.