Neil Mulholland's excellent July finished with a flourish yesterday as the stable enjoyed a double at Bangor, securing the 8th and 9th wins of the month for the Conkley Grange team. 0-140 rated handicap chases are quite thin on the ground during the summer months, but former owner Michael Masterson may be ruing selling French - bred Cesar et Rosalie who has since won 3 times. Yesterday's winning distance of a head was hard - won, as Robbie Dunne made up for his Stratford unse

Emma Lavelle has enjoyed a good July by the standards of a yard that generally eschews the mid summer period. Eight runners across both codes of the sport have generated 3 winners, and loss by a head in the summer's most valuable handicap hurdle. Hang In There, a previous graded hurdle winner at Cheltenham, began the sequence at Stratford on July 11, promoting a quick turn-round to enter him in the Betway Summer Handicap Hurdle at Market Rasen last weekend, where he was all o

Sutton Veney' s finest, Milton Harris, enjoyed his best season since the heady days of 2010-11 last season, notching up 18 winners from his new set up outside Warminster. He consolidated his start to the new season with a double yesterday at Newton Abbot, bringing the seasonal tally to 3. With a limited number of fixtures and a close eye on ground conditions in the hottest months, choosing your races to target is a must. In Achy Breaky Heart, winner of the Mares' Handicap Cha

The Point-to-Point community was saddened to learn of the death of Pat Awdry on June 26 at his home near Trowbridge. A great supporter of point-to-point racing over more than 50 years, first of all as a rider and latterly as an owner with the late John Dufosee, and more recently with Stuart Penny. Pat, who was 85, farmed at Pound Farm near Trowbridge and subsequently at Spiers Piece Farm at Steeple Ashton near Trowbridge where he ran a successful contract farming business wit

In a week where Jump racing fixtures were thin on the ground, the action moved to the Channel Islands as Neil Mulholland and Brian Hughes brought some mainland impetus to the races at Les Landes in Jersey on Friday where they teamed up for a treble, whilst, not to be done down, Charlie Longsdon took a fourth of the five races. This was the second of eight fixtures this year since the island came out of restrictions and crowds were permitted. Normally open for Easter, a delaye

Imagine the scenario. You've prepped a horse for a race, made the entry, the 48 hour declaration to run. You load the horse, arrive at the races, only to discover when you show the passport at the decs desk that you've brought the wrong animal. Time to crawl under a stone. This is what happened to Milton Harris' intended runner at Newton Abbot this afternoon. What looked a most uncompetitive bumper, with just four runners, became 25% less competitive with one slash of the pen