Game success for Paper Promise at Wetherby yesterday

Brilliant!

If you'd read our preview of the race (exclusive to all readers on this web-site) you may have had a notion that we thought we had a great chance with Paper Promise ahead of the Wetherby bumper on Tuesday.
Yes, our mare had to give weight all round, but she's a powerfully built sort and we knew she would not be inconvenienced by the testing ground.

As it turned out, with just less than 3 furlongs from home the top 3 in the market were almost in a line with Paper Promise just edging in front. Soon it was down to a match between the odds-on favourite (Olly Murphy's It's O Kay ridden by champion jockey Dickie Johnston) and our mare.
She may have been headed at the furlong pole for a few strides, but she battled on gamely, stretching out her neck and serving it up to her opponent staying on to win by ½ length on the line. The distances back to 3rd  and 4th was 9 lengths and 12 lengths.

This was an excellent performance from the mare in notching up her second win this season from 3 runs (she was runner up on debut at Kelso in May), but it was her attitude in doing so that was most impressive.

Fantastic for all her owners Ron & Eileen Smith, Ian Aitken and 'Wee Davie' Brown, and we can all re-live the closing stages here.

That's our 5th winner of the season - 5th in the last 6 weeks really - and our 4th win in a bumper this season. And while we're in Guinness record mode, Paper Promise is the first horse trained at Dodlands to win 2 bumper races in a season. So there you go.

The Paper sisters - Paper Promise (Kingy) with Paper Roses (Murray) on the rails