Susan Corbett's Newsletter:

The week of the cake! Much cake was consumed this week by the staff thanks to gifts of a birthday cake from Codeys Landlady and Helen – super cook bringing her usual cup cakes when visiting Kingston Rock.

Sadly it was not the week of rain and Hexham went from 'easy side of good' to good to firm on decs day. So we pulled out 3/5 horses to wait for softer ground. Buddy blew up on the hill and maybe needed the race while Jimli went very well to be 2nd over a shorter distance – a learning curve learnt! 3 miles on a flat course in future. 2 x 1st and a 2nd is still not too bad out of 3 runs!

Infinite Honour heads for the sales at Doncaster on the 22/23 – with a reserve of course!

Race planning resumes with an eye on the rain. So today we have the Wheelchair Challenge at Kelso at 11.30, following the auctioning off of the teams last night at the Dinner – see below. Anne and Phillip kindly bought our team of Nathan and Josh for £300.00 – nearly 10k was raised on the night and the stories from Kim Bailey were very good – I recommend it if it happens again next year!

Kilmore Rock at Kelso – his first run following his win for us on his debut at Hexham. This may be a tougher race but we hope he will make a good account – and, at last,

Samwise makes his debut in the 2.40pm Novice hurdle over 2 miles. He has had an injury and myself and Samantha have given him all the time he needed as we think he is special – fingers crossed all goes well today.

Best of luck to Ron, Andy, Sheila and Mike with Kilmore and Samantha with Samwise!

Dates

Today at Kelso:-

11.30 Wheel Chair Challenger then....

Kilmore Rock and Samwise

12th Hexham – ground dependant - Kingston Rock, Rock Steady Eddie, Sunset Hill, Velasco, Champ, Pinot ( yes two will have to walk! )

14th Musselburgh will be Rogers Dream.

Fingers crossed

Susan email:girsonfield@outlook.com Tel: 7713651215

As it turned out Samwise won his race at Kelso by a nose at 20/1 - well done to Susan and all those concerned

regards Chris