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 »