Duffield's Diary
What goes around - comes around
Ann Duffield | Monday, 04 July 2011 © Ann Duffield Racing
Yesterday was like the calm before the storm, a quiet, restful day which was almost work free. With todays runners having a blow out ahead of racing this evening at Ripon, followed by a couple of hours in the office finalising declarations and likely runners for the days ahead, transport and jockey bookings, the remainder of the morning was spent
Its not all about betting
Ann Duffield | Saturday, 02 July 2011 © Ann Duffield Racing
Orchid Street was our only runner today and didn't quite get the mile, which was always our worry but we needed to try and, after winning easily at Leicester recently over the slightly extended seven furlongs, we hoped for the best but, at the end of the day she is far too high in the handicap to be competitive in her rating band. She has a d
Fishy business
Ann Duffield | Thursday, 30 June 2011 © Ann Duffield Racing
While the yard underwent its usual Thursday spring clean with hay and feed barrows, feed pots and water buckets among the items to be disinfected, the fish pond was not neglected either. With most of the twenty two thousand gallons of water pumped out into four huge portable type swimming pools the fish were moved in to temporary accommodation in
Another two seconds
Ann Duffield | Wednesday, 29 June 2011 © Ann Duffield Racing
Lady Caprice has talent but didn't want to part with it today, travelling well until receiving the orders to go forwards, at which point she, and that pretty head of hers went upwards instead of onwards. The drop to selling or claiming company is on the agenda. Beecheys Beauty had previously shown a tendancy towards poor behaviour and was cas
George and the Grow Bags
Ann Duffield | Tuesday, 28 June 2011 © Ann Duffield Racing
Tro Nesa finished a respectable third today at Hamilton, where the Monty Roberts rug worked well to reassure her in the stalls. Proving beyond a shadow of a doubt however, that she is too high in the weights (and, would have been beaten at any distance even the preferred six furlongs). The filly doesn't know how to run a bad race, and as a re
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