We received our regular hay delivery today from Mark & Caroline Chalmers who specialize in producing top quality hay in the Limousin area.

They supply English & Italian raygrass as well as meadow hay. Mark & Caroline moved to France 10 years ago, previously in England, Mark & his father Alan produced racehorse hay, notably for trainer Josh Gifford.

We believe that top class hay is an essential base of a horses diet & that everything else should be built around this.

Chez Castel Mail won impressively the 4.30pm at Fontwell today. He was always a very nice youngster & had a lovely temperament & great attitude, always well balanced in his work.  We are just about to start breaking in his 1/2 brother a 3  year old by Great Pretender who has the size and scope to make up into a very exciting prospect.

Verni made it three wins & four places from only eight  runs, when winning the 2miles 3 furlongs handicap hurdle at Taunton today. There should be plenty of improvement in him yet, as he is still lightly raced, and when we bought him from the breeders he was an unbroken 4 year old.

Uno Valoroso won very convincingly at Newcastle today for Mark Walford and his owner Mr Herman.

He looks to be coming back to his best form.  He is by Voix du Nord a really top class stallion who died very young, just when he was starting to make a name for himself.

Broodmare NIKOLINE left today to be covered next month by SAINT DES SAINTS. She came to us from the top veterinary practice CLINIQUE EQUINE DE CONQUES after being admitted by her owner with chronic colic & was given only 5% chance of survival. 

Dr Fabien Relave operated on her and worked tirelessly for 48h. We picked her up on the 31 st of October when she weighed just 380kgs. Today she weighs 578kgs.

She was a very good racehorse, winning a grade 3 amongst other races & is probably one of the best daughters of Martaline. She has a three year old by Konig turf and a 2 yo & a yearling both by Kapgarde.

Mixboy, owned by Paul & Clare Rooney, maintained his unbeaten record over fences with an impressive win at Musselburgh today.  We spotted him when he was 2 yrs old in a field with the owners cows,  in the middle of nowhere in the East of France.

It was nice to see Unzing(named after an aéroplane)  winning at Market Rasen today, well done to his new connections.

Cut the Mustard enjoying a winter break before going back to Louisa Carberrys for a spring /summer campaign.