Summer Solstice Update
We’ve just about recovered from two days at Royal Ascot .Two cracking days but alas no prize at the end but a great experience to be an owner at the greatest flat meeting in the UK.
First up was Surrey Gold on Tuesday, who unfortunately was sensibly pulled up be Sean Levey after he just stopped mid race. He was discovered to have a heart murmur and be suffering from heat stress, which really did worry Hughie, that in turn had us worried. Thankfully he was fine the next day and is sound. He did look great beforehand, winning the best turned out (or was that the owners?!) and Hughie was pretty confident - a case of we’ll never know.
Surrey Mist ran a blinder to finish only 2.5 lengths from the winner in a close finish in this year’s most competitive 12 furlong handicap. He finished just out of the money in 7th but those first 7 were ahead of the rest and there’s no doubting some of them will go on to be Group horses with the winner costing nearly £600k. He’ll have no problems at 10 or 12 furlongs so potentially next up for him will be at Glorious Goodwood at the end of July.
Next out will be Surrey Princess as she’s had a good couple of weeks with no evidence of a bleed at home since she’s been having treatment so she’ll have entries at Lingfield (Saturday) Windsor (Monday) and Brighton (Tuesday).
Surrey Charm is over her cold but has had a quiet week. She’ll do more this week and we will then chat with George and see if she’s ready for a race entry,
We spoke to Charlie this week and it’s great to hear that Surrey Knight is recovering well. In order to speed up his recuperation the vet has suggested we use laser therapy/ultrasound on him. It’s fairly expensive (just short of £1500) but having spoken to a few experts it comes highly recommended and seems to promote quicker healing and enhance the prospects for a full recovery. It works by promoting better blood flow to the injury. We’ve given that the go ahead and the treatment will start next week. Surrey Noir is very well and doing two canters daily up Warren Hill. He’s start doing faster work from next week and if that goes well over the coming weeks then Charlie will start thinking of race entries.
Surrey Belle is over her cold and back to work and actually now progressing to two gallops a day on a couple of days each week. She finds it pretty easy going although she is very stubborn at times and likes to let people know she’s in charge!
Surrey Quest is well on holiday and had a visit from Nicky this week!
Surrey Lord is now on holiday and Surrey Fortune is over his minor procedure and taking things easy.
June
Saturday 25th – Surrey Princess - Lingfield
Monday 27th – Surrey Princess – Windsor
Tuesday 28th – Surrey Princess – Brighton
July
Sunday 3rd – visit to Billy’s to see Surrey Fortune 10.30 am
Friday 8th – Tattersalls July Sale – Surrey Prince lot 834
August
Monday 1st – Surrey Noir – EBF Ballyhane Stakes – Naas Racecourse, Ireland
September
Thursday 1st – Windsor - Discover Ownership Day
Thursday 8th – Surrey Noir – Doncaster – Weatherbys Stakes
October
Saturday 1st – Surrey Noir – Redcar – William Hill 2 Year Old Trophy
Friday 21st – Cheltenham - Discover Ownership Day
Saturday 22nd Cheltenham - Discover Ownership Day
November
Friday 18th – Ascot - Discover Ownership Day
Saturday 19th Ascot - Discover Ownership Day