News The Major’s Weekly Roundup 22/12/2024 December 22, 2024 by Major Dickie This week is usually the calm before the storm of Christmas week and New Year fixtures. A couple of nice bulletins to start the week. Firstly, Tony Carroll has trained 100 winners in a calendar year for the first time; many congratulations. Secondly on Monday, Rachael Blackmore returned to race riding at Naas after nearly […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Round Up 15/12/24 December 17, 2024 / December 17, 2024 by Major Dickie The week started with Sean Bowen riding his 100th winner of the season on Dominics Fault for his trainer Olly Murphy at Lingfield. Awful news came from across the water when we learnt of the death of Ferny Hollow. The Cheveley Park Stud owned Champion Bumper winner of 2020 fell the previous day at Cork in […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Round Up 08/12/24 December 8, 2024 by Major Dickie We lost Ffos Las on Monday to the weather. The Horse Race Writers and Photographers annual lunch took place as usual at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London. An unusual winner in a sense, was amateur jockey and son of Willie, Patrick Mullins who took the Writing Award for his musings in the trade paper, […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Round Up 01/12/24 December 1, 2024 / December 7, 2024 by Major Dickie Well, it was a quiet week until the weekend… No Flat racing this week in the UK but an International Jockeys Challenge took place at the Garrison Savannah racecourse just outside Bridgetown, Barbados on Saturday 30th. Jim Crowley, Hector Crouch and Clifford Lee took part. I have visited myself and it’s a lovely raceday experience. […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Round Up 24/11/24 November 24, 2024 / December 7, 2024 by Major Dickie Hot on the heels of his victory in the Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham, young Freddie Gingell posted a treble at Exeter for Paul Nicholls on Monday. Hector Crouch repeated the feat of three winners at Southwell later in the day. Tuesdays are not usually news driven days outside of Cheltenham and Royal Ascot […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Round Up 17/11/24 November 17, 2024 / November 17, 2024 by Major Dickie On Monday at Newcastle aboard Sambucus, Paul Mulrennan rode his 100th winner of the calendar year. Also in the early part of the week it was reported that Kia Joorabchian of Amo Racing had submitted a bid to buy Sir Michael Stoute’s Freemason Lodge stables in Newmarket. Down under, Vauban has been sold for around […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Round Up 10/11/24 November 10, 2024 / November 11, 2024 by Major Dickie First thing to mention this week is an omission from last week. Last Sunday saw a Tote Placepot dividend at Huntingdon of £32,922.60. Good work if you can get it!! In the early hours of Tuesday, the race that stops the nation; the Melbourne Cup took place at Flemington. There was a shock result courtesy […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Round Up 03/11/24 November 3, 2024 / November 3, 2024 by Major Dickie The week started with another jockey, albeit an inexperienced apprentice making a “real cock up” as the Major says, of his ride after failing to ride out his mount Blufferonthebus in the 3.15 at Leicester on Monday. The young jockey Matthew Lloyd Slater aged 22, was banned for 28 days for his failings on only […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Round Up 27/10/24 October 27, 2024 / November 13, 2024 by Major Dickie This week saw the final Group 1 race of the UK season with the William Hill Futurity Stakes at Doncaster on Saturday while the 2 day Cheltenham Showcase Meeting also took place. The week also saw the introduction of two very promising 2 year olds, namely Alobayyah on Tuesday at Yarmouth and the following day […] Read more »