Full steam ahead for Blackmore Farm! Blackmore Farm has been a hive of activity since our last blog. The yard is now full of horses and it is great to have all the staff back after their holidays. The majority of the horses are back cantering and have started to enjoy a jump in the school. Hopefully it won’t be long before we get them schooling on the grass. A few weeks ago, we wanted it to stop raining, but after this heatwave we will be in need of some rain again! We have had a handful of runners since our last blog. Caspers Court made his seasonal reappearance where he was slightly outclassed and would have needed the run. Our Dylan had his final run of the summer on the 1st September where he finished 3rd at Fontwell with Ben in the saddle. He will now enjoy a well deserved holiday and will come back into work in the New Year for the Spring. Dime ran another solid race at Worcester on the 12th September to finish 3rd only being beaten 2L. He has been so consistent over the summer and given his owners plenty of fun. Sunday 3rd September saw us have our annual Owners Day. With help from the staff, family and friends, we had an extremely busy day with over 130 people attending. The yard looked immaculate, as did the horses during their parades. Everyone enjoyed a beautiful lunch which was prepared by ourselves and enjoyed watching a Season Highlights video. The next couple months will consist of getting the horses back to race fitness and then we can do the exciting part of race planning! We are looking forward to having Yogi Breisner in at the beginning of October for some jump schooling, which will hugely benefit the younger horses. We were lucky enough to have Brian Stubbs Photography at our Owners Day. Photos can be viewed here.
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Another Chapter
Welcome To The New Website For Kayley Woollacott Racing! I hope you can agree with me in saying that the website looks amazing, refreshed and modern. Huge thank you to Liam J. Dowler and Stephanie Jones for the design and putting it together. Blackmore Farm hasn’t had much of a rest over the summer with plenty of pressure washing and painting ready for the new season. The horses, however, have all enjoyed a lovely summer out to grass and have started trickling back into work from the end of July/beginning of August. We purchased 5 three year old stores at the Sales over the summer which have all been broken in and we very much look forward to watching their progress over the next year after the success we had with last years’ stock. We have plenty of old and new faces for this coming season, both National Hunt and in the Point to Point sphere and we very much look forward to welcoming new owners as well. Last season was a personal best with 6 National Hunt wins, 17 Point to Point wins and 2 Hunter Chase wins. To produce this from our small yard is a huge achievement and we celebrated well when Josh was crowned National Champion Trainer (6 to 14 Category) at the National Point to Point Awards at the end of the season. The 2023/2024 National Hunt season has already started very well with a successful summer campaign. Nickelsonthedime won at both Warwick and Newton Abbot while Sylvies Dance won on her rules debut for us also around Newton Abbot in June. Fingers crossed for a successful season under both codes and we will keep you all updated with the yard news fortnightly.