With dry conditions over the last few days, the racing today will ride on the fast side.  Looking for horses with a preference for faster ground is a must.  Bath is normally very quick ground during the summer months, it does not water.  Sir Mark Prescott has only just started to have runners recently, he must have been aware of some problem with his horses during the first 4 months of the turf season, as he ran very few of his horses.  With a few winners coming over the last week or so, he is a stable to watch closely at the moment.  He runs The Game Is On in the 5.00 at Bath today.  With his stable jockey riding, I think this horse can be very competitive, in what looks an average race.

A good article in today’s racing post about Lester Piggott.  What a jockey he was, the best I think I have ever seen, and ever likely to see !

Many years ago, when Lester was making one of his mini comebacks, it was 1992 I think, or around that time.  Lester knocked on my door at 9am one morning, he wanted to speak to my brother Ian, who was training at the time.  Ian was at the breeze up sales at Doncaster.  We had a horse running on the Saturday called First Stage.  Lester told me he would ride it, and it would win !

I said, I’ll call Ian and let him know if he could ride it,  off he went.   Any way I called Ian, who was with the joint owner of First Stage, and told him that we had a visitor during breakfast, and what he had said.  Ian told me, well you better ring the press and tell them he rides it, I called the press and said I would like to put a jockey down for First Stage on Saturday, the reply from the other end was Lester Piggott ? Low and behold, Lester had already put himself down to ride it.  He of course won on it as well.