Midweek report from the gallops

No runners this week but we like to keep you informed so.......

Lot 1
After a steady gallop first time up, a couple of pairs of horses worked at a faster pace

• The siblings Eternally Yours (Laura) with Nights In Venice (Garry). Eternally Yours is looking very well and excited her young work rider while Garry felt that his mount has come on again for his recent Kelso run
• Another of our promising bumper horses Eden Mill (Joanna) showed himself in fine fettle too ahead of a Carlisle outing on Sunday. His unraced companion 'Derek' (Connor) impressed also.
• Last week's runners Cowboy Cooper (Callum) and Maid Of Houxty (Alan) completed at a steady pace

Lot 2

• We hope to run the newly named Time For Heroes (Callum) quite soon, and he worked at a faster pace with Eileen Smith's home-bred filly Ellistrin Star (Connor). The filly is again starting to please in her work and is maybe 3-4 weeks away from a racecourse run in a bumper.
• Joanna was aboard the just-arrived filly 'Bella' (see story below) who came up just the once with Lady Villanelle (Georgina)
• Last week's Hexham runner Bonny Houxty (Alan) has a couple of steady spins

Left to right : 'Bella', Time For Heroes, Ellistrin Belle, Bonny Houxty & Lady Villanelle

Lot 3
For this lot we were joined by Kath Bewley who brought along Kinerton Hill who is in pre-training chez Bewleys prior to re-joining the yard for a post New Year campaign.

• Stainsby Girl (Georgina) worked on her own. She's well used to this and is looking for a run somewhere, anywhere with soft ground.
• Kinerton Hill (Kath Bewley), Stolen Money (Callum), Shoeshine Boy (Joanna)  and So Many Roads (Connor) completed a couple of gallops at a steady pace

Stolen Money (Callum) leads Kinerton Hill (Kath) to the top of the gallop with Stainsby Girl (Georgina) in behind

Lot 4

• Honda Fifty (Callum) completed a couple of steady gallops with 'Emily' (Joanna)
• The remainder of the string had some leg stretching road work

New arrival at Dodlands......

It's always a pleasure to receive a new horse to train.

This week owner-breeder Bill Aitchison (of The Houxty sisters fame) sent along another filly out of his broodmare Izon's Croft, who was herself placed in a couple of Point-to-Points.
'Bella' is by Black Sam Bellamy (click on the name to find out more) and is a half sister to a couple of horses currently in training here at Dodlands in the hurdles-placed duo Bonny Houxty and Maid Of Houxty.

Bella had been in pre-training prior to joining us so she has been straight onto the morning gallop rota (see report above).

She has a similar sturdy conformation look as her sisters so it could well be that she'll be suited to a trip in time. After all, further back in her family can be found those grand Northern staying chasers from a while back, Red Marauder (Grand National) and Red Striker (Peter Marsh Chase).

Young Joanna is back from the Sales......

After spending 5 years working in racing stables in Ireland, Joanna Walton recently returned to the Borders. Not that she didn't enjoy her time across the Irish Sea, quite the reverse, but the lure of home was always there.

 'Miss J Walton' rode a winner on the Flat in this country prior to her Irish relocation where she was successful a couple of more times on the level plus another three under the NH code. Add to that 16 winners under the NH banner in the UK, the most recent being Lissen To The Lady for Sandy Forster in May at Kelso, and it's clear Joanna is a very accomplished jockey.

She has been a friend of Georgina (Shiels) for a number of years so we gladly welcomed the offer to come along to the Wednesday "work" mornings this season.
But this young lady has more strings to her bow. In a move that made our Assistant Trainer green with envy, Joanna attended the 5-day Tattersalls Ireland NH Foal Sale in early August principally working for a bloodstock agent. But she didn't come away empty handed herself having purchased a well-grown, athletic colt by Workforce which she will nurture over the next couple of years to then make a re-appearance at an NH Sales ring.

And finally - more Sales fall-out......

Oh, and while we're on the subject of Sales and non-attendance..............

The annual Tatts Ireland August NH Store Sale has been off the radar for the usual Dodlands enclave since the pandemic struck but this did not prevent Callum from engaging in his thorough analysis of the catalogues and forming a short-list of likely sorts.
For there, in a 2020 catalogue (held in August albeit under the banner of Derby Sale) was a Jet Away gelding - including a striking photo on-line, reproduced below - out of that fine broodmare Rose Vic, the dam of Dodlands' stalwarts Paper Roses, Paper Promise & the unraced 5yr old 'Emily' who were all bought at Tatts Ireland sales. A family well known hereabouts, you might say.

The then 3-yr old Jet Away gelding was led out unsold at €14k - a good deal less than the €20+k estimate given by our Assistant Trainer.

Nevermind, there's always 2022.

But hold that result.
For that very same Jet Away gelding (now named Everyonesgame) finished a head runner-up on debut in a good quality 4yr-old Irish Point at the start of November.
He was subsequently sold at the Tatts Cheltenham Sale last week for £85k.........

This one's for you Callum