[caption id="attachment_18777" align="alignleft" width="300"] Eponina enjoying an early morning canter[/caption] Good evening, I hope you all had a wonderful New Year, and have taken plenty of time to recover! As you can see, it has taken me a whole week, but I think I am finally getting...
A very Happy New Year to all our readers and everyone at Castle Hill Stables sends their good wishes for 2017. As for ourselves we just wish for perhaps a kinder rub of the green in this new year than we sometimes experienced in 2016. For...
Outside draw this time beats Epeius in bid to gain first victory Not too many runners in the early part of the month but on the 13th December Ben appears to find a very suitable race for the unlucky Epeius. Credit to Ben for finding this...
Good afternoon, Can you believe it's nearly Christmas?! I haven't even started my present shopping yet, though I am considering not buying Ben anything as he keeps not turning me out on account of the 'mud' - unbelievable! We have been getting in the Festive mood...
Good evening, It has been an excellent week here at Castle Hill, though this years frustrating theme of filling the winner's enclosure but just missing the top spot has rather continued! Irritating, but always better than not being there! We had a cracking Friday night at Newcastle,...
Good evening, It has been another busy week here at Castle Hill, and I am frankly exhausted from keeping these yearlings in check! We are now all going down to the Lowlands every day (right, Camacho, Lord Shanakill and Dandy Man), which is a...
Another near miss for Bourbonisto at Newcastle In the frame in 4 of his 5 races to date Ben ups Bourbonisto to 7 furlongs and tries Daniel Shapiro's 2 year old on the all-weather surface at Newcastle for the first time on November 4th in an...
Good evening, So winter has arrived in a bit of a hurry this year, and my stablemates and I had a bit of a shock waking up this morning to see the world covered in a rather thick layer of white stuff! Ben naturally immediately turned...
Good evening! Now, I am sure you have all missed me over the last few weeks, but I promise I have a valid, if rather irritating, reason for my absence - I appear to have been nominated as Puppy Sitter. My eyes nearly popped out of...
Saint Charles takes 3rd place at Towcester On 5th October Ben takes Saint Charles to Towcester for a Class 4 Novices' Chase over 2 miles. Ridden as usual by Richie McLernon, who was successful on J P McManus' 6 year old in a chase at Southwell...