Just been to see an old friend and work colleague.  I am in Spain at the moment, Darren Biggs former flat jockey lives about 40 miles inland from where I am staying. I had not seen him for about 6 years, he moved to Spain in April 2018.  He has bought a place, which he is currently renovating, he is converting some of the out buildings into apartments, with a view to having guests staying and is going to have a few horses, he is going to do some horse trek ride outs and is also eventually going to re plant some avocado trees, and sell them to local supermarkets and resteraunts. It was good to see him, he is pretty good at the building and renovation work himself, and was showing me a pond of koi carp he had moved from one pond to another, he bought the fish with the property, apparently some of the fish are about £650 each to buy ! He said he thinks he has about 400 of them.

Back to today’s meetings, some useful horses racing in Ireland and France.  A little bit of uncertainty about the Aiden O’Brian horses at the moment, he said a lot of his horses had a virus, and the majority are behind in work, he expects a few to progress for runs this week at York,  Saxon Warrior being one of the horses, he expects to be better next time.  I was surprised how far he finished behind Roaring Lion the other day, as he was only a neck behind him when they met in July.

A few horses entered today I like, and a bank holiday Monday tomorrow, so hopefully I can find one that will win, a few horses in races that are of interest.