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Mother Nature has conspired against us again this week. We had plans to run Chief Exec at Lingfield on Wednesday but started to get the feeling that the odds were stacked against us. Indeed the meeting was called off due to a large amount of snow and Chief will have to wait for another day. We are hoping to send Simon Rowlands' King's Miracle to Kempton on Thursday to contest the handicap over a mile there. Simon, all the way up in Derbyshire, has already hinted that he is likely to be a weather-thwarted non-runner and it is looking likely that the meeting will suffer the same fate.
While it is looking like a quiet week on the racing front, Jeremy and the team are working their hardest to keep the horses ticking over at home. It is in situations like these that our treadmill (pictured below) plays a huge role, with up to 20 horses a day being worked on it. We are lucky enough to have rubber covering all of our walkways and so, with a bit of shovelling and the addition of a sprinkling of salt, we are able to get horses out of their boxes and doing a bit of work.
Complimenting the treadmill is our indoor horsewalker. This is joined to the bottom barn, where 20 horses are housed, by an all-weather track meaning we can access it even in the worst weather conditions. We will defeat the big freeze!