June 23rd Update
A super week of racing at Royal Ascot but very hard to pick a winner so congrats to the winners of Nicky’s Tipping Comp, 80 entries this time which may be a record and great that 5 Surrey Racing owners finished in the top 10 with Paul C the highest in a very credible 3rd place, Lester and Dawn were one point behind in 5th. Well done to Nicky, Will and the other organisers, get in touch with them to join the next comp which is over Glorious Goodwood.
In horse news, Surrey Noir managed to break through the Brexit red tape and arrived at Tim Donworth’s looking in great shape especially considering the journey, which is a credit to the way Charlie kept him up to his work and sent him off in good health. He’ll have an easy 10 days settling in before hitting the Chantilly gallops at the end of next week. If all goes to plan he’ll run at Les Sables-d'Olonne at the end of July – bet that has a few of you googling maps! Racing in France is only €5 entry so we welcome anyone who wishes to make the trip over to come and watch that race.
Surrey Charm is now back on the gallops which is great although it will take her 6-8 weeks to get back to racing.
We do have a runner this week, with the now gelded Surrey Force reappearing at Leicester on Thursday evening, in a 1m 2f class 6 (0-65) handicap, currently scheduled for 7.30 pm with Benoit de la Sayette on board. Force hasn’t been any different at home after the gelding (he was always well behaved) but hopefully he shows more fight on the course after his last very disappointing run., good luck to connections – although we do need some rain to come.
No new updates on the other horses, they are all doing well and 6 of them will hopefully be racing in July. We are still yet to have a winner this year which is frustrating but there’s plenty to be excited about as we aim to end the first 6 months of the year on a high.
Possible races and events
June
Thursday 27th Surrey Force – Leicester
July
Tuesday 2nd – Arqana Breeze Up Sale
Friday 5th – Surrey Shadow - Haydock
Saturday 6th – Surrey Belle - Nottingham
Wednesday 10th – Surrey Fire – Kempton
Thursday 11th – Surrey Fire – Newbury
Saturday 13th – Surrey Mist - Ascot
Saturday 20th – Surrey Noir – Les Sables