Good evening, The weather might be getting colder up here in North Yorkshire, but I am pleased to say that we have had plenty of excitement recently to keep us warm! Most of this has come courtesy of a two year old gelding called Lord Caprio,...
Good evening, It really has been a while since you have heard from me, but we have been through some difficult times here at Castle Hill Stables and I wanted to wait a little while before putting hoof to paper. As I am sure you...
Highly impressive performance as Rey Loopy coasts to comfortable success at Newcastle The first runners of the new month are on Sat 4th Nov when Ben takes 3 horses to Newcastle for their all-weather meeting. Canufeelthelove makes a respectable racecourse debut to finish 7th of the...
Ever So Much snatches 3rd place at Sedgefield with an improved performance Our first runners of October are 2 jumpers, both owned by J P McManus, who make the shortish journey up to Sedgefield on the 3rd day of the new month. First off is Ever...
Good evening! We have had a cracking couple of weeks here at Castle Hill, with the horses running as well as they are looking! The Doorman (left) set off for Sedgefield last week a fortnight ago, meaning we all had to deal with a very nervous Alice...
The Doorman makes in 3 wins for the season with a first chase success for Ben A quiet start to the new month with no runners from Castle Hill Stables until The Doorman goes to Sedgefield to contest a Class 4 handicap chase over 2 miles...
Good evening, Once again, I have been a little behind on keeping my thoughts updated, and for this I can only offer my sincere apologies, but those Sales catalogues have been flying in and by do they require some going through! Funky (Funkadelic) (left) has been getting...
Consistent Castle Hill Cassie finishes 2nd at Carlisle's all lady jockey's meeting On 7th August it's the annual lady jockey's only meeting at Carlisle and appropriately Ben takes one of our own fillies, Castle Hill Cassie, to contest a Class 4 handicap over 6 furlongs. Castle...
Good evening, I must apologise as I have been particularly useless this month at getting my hooves to the keyboard! I have no excuses really, except that I have been terribly busy training one particular horse, but more on that later! We got July off to a...
Fine performance at Hamilton gives Camanche Grey a 3rd career success On 4th July Ben takes 2 horses up to Hamilton Park, Prancing Oscar and Camanche Grey, both ridden by conditional jockey Rob Fitzpatrick. Prancing Oscar, a maiden 3 year old after 4 career starts to...