Yard set for busy Chester May Fest

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Chester’s May Festival gets
under way this Wednesday
Yard set for busy
Chester May Fest
C
HESTER’S May Festival, which gets
under way today [Wednesday], is
always an important fixture on the
Manor House calendar and this year is no
exception.
Tom will be sending one of his strongest ever teams to the Roodeye and, with
runners on all three days, it will be disappointing if we can’t bag at least
one winner.
Indeed, the yard looks to
have a live chance in six of the
seven races on the opening
day, including our own race, the
5f Manor House Stables Lily Agnes Stakes, in which Roudee will
be bidding to follow up Quatour’s success last year.
Brockwell runs in today’s big race, the
stanjames.com Chester Cup over 2m2f;
Ballista goes to post in the 5f Stellar Group
Handicap; Ghosting and The Character
line up in the 1m2f Boodles Diamond
Maiden Stakes; Trinityelitedotcom returns
to turf in the 5f Stella Artois Condition
Stakes; and Ujagar could run well in the
concluding 1m 4f Diabetes UK Handicap.
Anaconda lines up in the 1m2f IG
Handicap which opens tomorrow’s
card; Hot Coffee returns to action in
the 7f Boodles Diamond Handicap;
the unraced juvenile Red Icon, London
Life and Macarthurs Park could all go
to post in the 5f T&L Leasing EBF
Stallions Maiden Stakes;
Thataboy is in the 6f Betfair Cash Out
Handicap; and Double Discount will bid
for the 1m2f Investec Structured Products
Handicap.
Kenny Powers, Capo Rosso and Chosen Character are possibles for Friday’s
opening race, the 7f sportingbet.com Earl
Grosvernor Handicap; stable star Brown
Panther could return to action in the 1m5f
Boodles Diamond Ormonde Stakes; Fine
‘n’ Dandy and Thataboy may line up in the
5f Crabbie’s EBF Stallions Handicap; Destiny’s Kitten and Sitting Pritty are entered
in the Merseyrail Day Saver Ticket Maiden
Fillies’ Stakes; and Jenny Powell could be
aboard Licence To Till, who was claimed
out of Mark Johnston’s yard in the concluding 1m4f LDF Apprentice Handicap.
Issue No.38
May 2014
Roudee first
juvenile win
APRIL was another good
month for the yard with
six more winners, taking
our total so far in 2014
to 16.
And it could have been
even better – star sprinter
Trinityelitedotcom leading everywhere but the
line in the sprint final,
worth almost 100k to the
winner, at the inaugural
all-weather championships – turn to Page 2 to
read Manor House Racing
club member Jan Green’s
account of the day.
Laurence Bellman’s
Barracuda Boy set the ball
rolling when winning
a 6f Wolverhampton
handicap on April 5 with
Capo Rosso winning a
1m handicap on the same
card for Deva Racing.
Rav Garcia’s
three-yearold Ujagar
tasted success for the
first time
when winning a 1m4f
Wolverhampton handicap on April 8.
Three days later another three-year-old, Dreams
Of Reality, built on the
promise of her debut to
land a 5f maiden at the
same venue for owner
John Duffy.
The yard’s second double of the month came at
Ripon on April 17 when
Roudee, owned by Mike
Edwards, Nick Hughes,
Dylan Jenkins and Steve
Roberts, became our first
two-year-old winner of
2014.
Later on the same
afternoon Andrew Black’s
four-year-old filly Wall
Of Sound maintained last
year’s improvement to
land a competitive 1m2f
handicap.
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Marathon effort is
a huge fundraiser
The Manchester Royal Eye Hospital cheque
MICHAEL Owen
has thanked everybody who sponsored him to run in
last month’s Virgin
Money London
Marathon.
Owners and staff
at Manor House
were among those
who helped Michael
to raise more than
£75,000 for three
very worthy causes.
A total of £77,043
was shared between
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in
Liverpool, Manchester Royal Eye
Hospital Charity
and Prostate Cancer
UK.
“The contrast be-
tween a 90-minute
game of football
and the London
Marathon was as
extreme as you
can imagine and,
although it was
one of the hardest
things I have ever
accomplished, it
was also one of the
best,” said Michael
afterwards.
“I would like to
thank everyone for
their amazing support.”
Michael was
one of the fastest celebrities to
complete the 26.2m
course, finishing
his first marathon
in 3:45:43.
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Not too late to join in all the fun
IF you haven’t already done
so then it’s not too late to join
Manor House Racing Club
for the remainder of 2014.
And with club horse Trinityelitedotcom improving at a
rate of knots over the course
of recent months, exciting
times lie ahead.
The four-year-old sprinter
has finished either first or
second in each of his last 10
races, winning five of them,
and netting almost £100,000
in the process.
Membership costs just £40
a month and a one-off joining fee of £100 and includes
a share of prize money, stable
visits, and owners’ badges
whenever Trinityelitedotcom
is in action.
More details are available
under the ownership tab at
www.manorhousestables.
com or by phoning the office
on 01948 820485.
Manor House Racing Club member Jan Green was at Lingfield to see
Trinityelitedotcom come agonisingly close to landing a near 100k pot
Trinity thrills
club members
Richard is our new
financial controller
MANOR House
Stables has a new
financial controller.
Richard Challoner has filled the
vacancy which
arose following the
departure of Alex
Owen earlier this
year.
Richard, 36, is a
chartered accountant, who grew up
on a Cheshire farm.
His brother Harry
is a National Hunt
jockey and sister
Mandy a renowned
local equestrian
artist.
Overseas successes
for former inmates
TWO former Manor
House inmates
have been enjoying
success on farflung shores.
Junoob, who
Tom trained to win
two races in early
2012, won a Group
2 race at Rosehill,
Trinityelitedotcom, centre, is
chinned by Alben Star, left
Richard Challoner
in Australia, at the
beginning of last
month.
And Laurence
Bellman’s This Is
Nice, a winner at
Brighton last May,
landed a first win
on American soil at
Pimlico on April 26.
B
EING a member of the Manor House Racing Club during April could only have
been improved by a small margin
– a head!
Our stable visit on April 12 began with Lizzie’s excellent bacon
sandwiches with the essential options of brown or red sauce!
Suitably fortified we visited the
equine swimming pool to see a
two-year-old complete several
laps of the pool.
Tom explained the benefits of
swimming when a horse is able
to exercise, use different muscles
and have a good blow and it was
fascinating to see the way they
instinctively swim – something of
an improvement on doggy paddle!
Next stop was a tour of the
barns where inmates were being
tacked up for the next lot on a
busy working day for the yard.
This is the time to listen to
the staff when they assess their
charges. It soon became obvious
Roudee was one for the notebook
and he provided a quick return
with a 4-1 win at Ripon just a few
days later!
Across in the trotting ring the
horses warmed up before doing
faster work on the gallops. Our
club horse Trinityelitedotcom
worked well and we were all confident of a good run at Lingfield
later in the week.
An early start on Good Friday
found several club members
heading south to support Trini-
tyelitedotcom and enjoy the delights of a sell-out Lingfield for the
inaugural All-Weather Championships.
A good break saw our horse,
in trademark fashion, blaze a trail
over six furlongs. He drifted a little going into the straight and
it was touch and go whether he
could hold the late challenge
from Alben Star. Alas, this is real
life and Trinityelitedotcom was
relegated to second place as the
leaders flashed over the line.
Nevertheless, it was a worthwhile journey with good prize
money and we now look forward
to Trinityelitedotcom’s return to
turf in the 5f Stella Artois Condition Stakes at Chester today
[Wednesday]. Fingers crossed!
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