Same Jurisdiction familiarises herself with La Grange
It was a glorious morning first thing in Newmarket and then the clouds appeared and it looked like more rain was on the way when I headed off to Kent. I have kindly been invited to the Blandford Bloodstock golf day by Richard Brown and Tom Goff at Royal St George’s, Sandwich, a very enjoyable but challenging course. We have had a quiet week once more with no runners yesterday and none today. We have some runners during the rest of the week but the rain is meaning that we are not likely to have many runners on Saturday. We could be busy at the July meeting as we have some more two year olds that are ready to run and we put a lot of the two year olds through the stalls this morning, everything went smoothly.
Same Jurisdiction has arrived safely having flown from Mauritius to Belgium and then by road on to us here at La Grange. The Grade 1 winning Mare was last seen finishing a close second in the Grade 1 Majorca Stakes at Kenilworth at the end of January. Once she has settled in here we hope to aim her at a nice race in Europe over seven or eight furlongs in the Autumn and then if all goes well we will consider options further afield.
England once more disappointed at a major football tournament on Monday evening and we deserved to lose against Iceland. Given we have good young players who should be hungry it was incredible that we could not even dominate the second half when looking for an equaliser. The new England rugby coach has worked wonders with his charges in The Six Nations and Australia and we need a manager who can somehow squeeze some passion out of his charges, it is much easier said than done. Thankfully the cricket team are also playing with some pride this summer but sadly the weather has stopped proceedings in their one day match against Sri Lanka.