Posts By: Simon Double

  • FIVE RUNNERS ON BUSY DAY FOR YARD

    ELJADDAAF is one of five runners for the stable on a busy day and he may be the pick of the quintet when lining up for the 2.45 at Kempton. He was unlucky when short of room last time out at Wolverhampton but has looked progressive and should give a good account at 6/1 under… Read more »

  • WELL HANDICAPPED TAGULA EACH-WAY CHANCE AT KEMPTON

    Tagula Night – runs at Kempton TAGULA NIGHT is one of two runners for Dean Ivory tonight at Kempton (9pm) and the well handicapped ten-year-old has a good each-way chance of troubling the judge. He is one of eleven runners in the 6f handicap and although not brilliantly drawn in nine, this course and distance winner… Read more »

  • DEAN IVORY ON COURSE FOR RECORD YEAR

    DEAN IVORY, the Master of Harper Lodger Farm, may have had a quiet August but he is still on course for a record year, both in terms of winners and prize money. Kadrizzi, a winner at Ascot’s Shergar Cup Meeting, was the only success for the stable this month but many were placed and historically, the yard… Read more »

  • REVIEW OF THE WEEK: QUIET END TO AUGUST

    DEAN sent out just seven runners last week and the month ended with no winners although two horses were placed. Bobby Vee was third at Brighton and the very consistent Jack the Laird posted another second, at Wolverhampton.  While both were favourites, of the yard’s other five runners, three went off at 20/1 or bigger,… Read more »

  • IVORY RUNNERS BOTH FAVOURITE AT WOLVES

    DEAN IVORY’S two runners today, both at Wolverhampton, are both favourites. Jack The Laird in the 7.15 and Eljaddaaf in the 8.45 have been well supported and are a best priced 2/1 and 9/4 respectively. The former has been in good recent form with a win and four seconds in his last six starts, three… Read more »

  • JIM CROWLEY WELL BACKED FOR CHAMPIONSHIP

    JIM CROWLEY has been well backed of late to win this year’s Jockeys’ Championship and is now 5/2 second favourite, having been 50/1 at the start of the campaign. He is currently on 74 winners, just four behind odds-on favourite and reigning champion, Silvestre De Sousa but all the money recently has been for Jim Crowley,… Read more »

  • AYR GOLD CUP ENTRIES FOR DEAN IVORY

    DEAN IVORY is on schedule for his best ever season and his sixty plus string includes horses with some big race entries this autumn including two horses in the Ayr Gold Cup. Golden Amber and Kadrizzi, rated 97 and 103 respectively, are both entered in one of the sprint showcase races of the year. Kadrizzi… Read more »

  • REVIEW OF THE WEEK: SEVEN FROM ELEVEN IN PRIZE MONEY

    HARPER LODGE FARM sent out eleven runners last week and although there were no winners, seven of the eleven were in the prize money. Jack The Laird and Soaring Spirits were both second and the latter was a shade unlucky at Brighton yesterday when beaten a short head, having been squeezed for room and bumped near… Read more »

  • SPIRITS CHASING FOUR-TIMER IN TRICKY AFFAIR

    SOARING SPIRITS only faces three runners today at Brighton (4.30) but it’s a tricky 6f contest as he aims to complete a four-timer. All four runners can be given a chance but the Dean Ivory runner will hopefully be able to dominate this small field under Robert Winston who has ridden him in his last… Read more »

  • RAINS COME FOR STAKE ACCLAIM AT SANDOWN

    STAKE ACCLAIM is one of two Dean Ivory runners today when lining up for the 5f handicap at Sandown (4.15pm) and this talented son of Acclamation has the ability to go close. Winner of three of his thirteen starts, he has sometimes disappointed but this 87-rated gelding has plenty of talent and the potential to… Read more »