They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Still as poignant today as it was when written in 1914 by poet Laurence Binyon.
Surrey Lord did a fast piece of work last week but didn’t quite perform as well as Toby would have liked and his recovery was a little longer that it should have been. Toby took some blood tests which came back as normal, so it doesn’t appear to be anything amiss, but Toby feels he needs a couple of more ‘sharpeners’ before racing. That meant he missed running today at Sandown, but he will have entries on Monday to race at either Cheltenham or Windsor next Saturday, which will be pre his next serious piece of work on Tuesday. The Windsor race is at 1.25pm, a 3-mile class 3 handicap hurdle. the Cheltenham race, at 3.25pm, is a class 2 handicap hurdle over 2 miles and 5 furlongs, both races scheduled to be live on ITV4. If he doesn’t quite sparkle on Tuesday, then we will look again at options later in the month.
Hillsyde Hope, as mentioned last week, is continuing to strengthen and he’s about 4 weeks from a racecourse debut.
Of a similar timeframe is Surrey King who is now on the longer grass gallops and building up nicely to a return to the track. November 24th is certainly a possibility but it’s probably more likely we won’t see him until early December.
Surrey Bolt and Surrey Moon – no new update, they are going through their various stages of rehabilitation.
Good luck to connections if Surrey Lord appears at the end of the week.
Cheers
Clive
Possible races and events.
November
Saturday 14th - Surrey Lord @ Cheltenham or Windsor
Tuesday 24th – Surrey King @ Lingfield
December
Friday 11th – Surrey King @ Southwell