We love to see how our horses are enjoying life after racing.
This is Star Prize. She retired from racing this year, and won last year under Faye at Bath.
What a transformation she has made! She is enjoying her second career competing in the dressage and showing fields and looks like she is making quite the impression.
Ubettabelieveit has settled in well at Mickley Stud and he is featured here with Thoroughbred Daily News. Stud Owner, Richard Kent, speaks highly of him and is looking forward to getting him started.
This is Truth In Jest (Chestnut) and Lucky Lucky Lucky enjoying their holidays. Truth In Jest won twice this year, whilst Lucky Luckyy Lucky ran some very promising races. We are looking forward to them both next year, but first, a well deserved break. I would definitely prefer to holiday somewhere warmer!
Bakr makes the trip up to Newcastle tonight to contest the 4:45, over 6 furlongs. Faye Mcmanoman rides. This is her first run on this surface and we wish the best of luck to her connections.
A bit of a history lesson for a Thursday morning.
This is our newest addition, ‘Porto Ercole’, being ridden by Faye. She was bought last week at the Goffs HIT Sale. Porto Ercole ran twice in Ireland for Ger Lyons. She is by first-season-sire Caravaggio and out of the Gr. 1 - placed mare, Euphrasia.
Whoever named this filly deserves a prize for their research and this is how it came about:
Caravaggio was a famous Italian painter. In July 1610, he left Naples on a boat carrying three of his paintings and was supposed to arrive in Porto Ercole. Mistaken for a criminal near Rome, he abandoned his boat with his paintings and continued to Porto Ercole on foot. He arrived exhausted and died shortly after, but the cause of his death was unknown. He is remembered in Porto Ercole by a path of the great artists work.
Stable cat, Silver, was definitely relieved that the cold weather wasn’t here to stay, for now anyway!
Here she is at the start of the week sheltering in the the straw barn.
Featuring:
Faye riding Cmon Cmon and Rowan riding Totes Emosh
A bitterly cold tractor run to the muck heap
The view from the top of Langton Wold Gallops
The snow has fallen all around us but unfortunately there is still work to be done!
A beautiful start to the morning at Woodlands Stables, a lot easier to appreciate now sat behind the fire!
What an achievement!
We are proud to say our very own Woodlands Charm has contributed to this tally, with her two wins at Ripon and Catterick this year.
NELSONS ROCK brings up our 100th winner of the year! 💯
— Middleham Park Racing (@MprUpdates) November 25, 2021
A massive thank you to everyone who made this achievement possible and congratulations to all our winning owners! 🏆#TeamMPR pic.twitter.com/mthicS9QVr
We’ve had our first frosts of the winter here in Langton. We can’t say starting the day at 1 degree is enjoyable but that looks feeble compared to the weekend forecast.
It’s safe to say we are all missing the nice summer rides up the gallops.
We were busy at the final major yearling sale of the year yesterday at Tattersalls.
We made one purchase and this was a lovely looking son Showcasing, boasting a pedigree full of black-type performers.
The colt is the first foal out of the unraced Bated Breath mare, Impede. She is from a Juddmonte family and a half-sister to no less than 5 Group performers.
Although there was only evening racing at Chelmsford to keep us occupied on this cold Monday evening, we had reason to be entertained.
Above, trained by Stuart Williams, won the feature Class 2 Handicap, off a mark of 94. Above is the half-brother to our very own Wootton Bassett yearling filly, out of the Acclamation mare, Broken Applause.
‘Whoopie’ is certainly a looker!
What a beautiful photo taken by Phil Andrews at the top of Langton Wold Gallops.
This is what makes it all worthwhile.
Ginger Jam is now roughed off and enjoying his holiday! ‘Jam’ is a 9-time winner and has won twice for us this season, both times at Bath! Lucky Lucky Lucky is the horse seen in the background, also enjoying a short break.
This a yearling colt by Temple Stakes winner, Pearl Secret. He is out of the two-time winning mare, Kashtan, making him a half-brother to our very own two-time scorer Maybe Even Never.
We hope this colt is just as lucky for his owners. You can definitely see the resemblance between the two of them, with Maybe Even Never pictured here as a yearling, only just broken.
There is no flat racing in Britain this week so there is no better time to look back at the winners we’ve had this year.
41 winners have been trained out of Woodlands Stables this year; a record number on flat. Take a look at them all below!
Today is World Horse Appreciation Day! Here are some of our equine stars receiving some love! Pictured are: Trust Bertie, Totes Emosh, Ginger Jam, Keepherlit, Woodlands Charm, Firmdecisions and Singe Anglais.
It’s that time of year again, the clippers are out! Here is Nigel clipping our Cotai Glory two-year-old, Totes Emosh. Luckily this isn’t the finish article, I hope this haircut doesn’t embarrass her too much, I think we’d all be worried if Nigel walked towards us with a pair of clippers!
This is our Sioux Nation colt being long-reined by Jim. Jim does a great job of lunging and long-reining all our horses before they are ridden; it is an integral part in the breaking process. All of our yearlings have a very good grounding before they are ridden, being handled, lunged and long-reined plenty.
This Sioux Nation colt has just been down the road with Jim and is heading back to his stable. He is taking everything in his stride and the next step is to get on his back! Any volunteers?
Cozican is back after a short break. He is now being readied for a winter all-weather campaign. Here he is with Isla, hacking around the track at home.