It’s the time of year when we start looking at which of the two year olds are ready to take on more work and are likely to be the earlier runners. One thing that we analyse is physical maturity. A great indicator are growth plates at the knee. (1/3)
In 2002 there were 9,574 flat horses to run in 4,572 races.
In 2021 there were 9,984 horses to run in 6,531 flat races
So we’ve increased the horse population by 400 and the number of races by 2,000.
Anybody wonder why there are small fields?
Don’t Tell Claire back safely, sound & happy in her stable after giving it everything to finish second at Royal Ascot today.
A special mare owned by a special family who gave us an opportunities to when few others did. So close to the dream result. Thank you Andrew & Claire 🥰
A young apprentice jockey got given a ten day ban for the “human error” of misjudging the winning line at Kempton later in the day. Will the several humans involved in this error he deducted ten days wages? 🤔
Rather than both cameras on the correct winning line, one camera was focused on the first winning line which resulted in the controversy at Sandown today. Chief steward Will Hudson attributes "human error" and apologises for the far-reaching betting implications
Good scope left versus a bad scope on the right.
We take many steps to keep the horses healthy, but particularly with the young horses it’s inevitable they occasionally pick something up.
The analysis that comes next is key to getting a horse healthy and back training ASAP 1/3.
6000 people enjoying racing on a Saturday afternoon
@BangorRaces
- this is the impact you can’t measure in betting turnover by premierisation!
It’s about the people who come casually today and become life long fans. Take away fixtures like this and that connection is lost.
A beautiful foal enjoying early spring sunshine, he is by Time Test out of Rosaceous who won a Newbury maiden for the yard. Very rewarding to develop families together with owner breeders.
Ever since we started training we’ve tried to post our honest thoughts on each of our runners on our website.
We have always appreciated the kind words from people who enjoy this.
However, increasingly we’re receiving unkind texts, emails and offensive phone calls.
Today has not gone well for Elf. Don’t think he will be taunting cheeky two year old colts again. He has a lot to learn from the team about horsemanship!
It’s goodbye to Don’t Tell Claire who gave us and the Stonehill’s so many amazing days together!
She heads off to stud and one day we look forward to training her babies.
33 Starts
🥇x 5
🥈x 6 (including Royal Ascot)
🥉x 4
💷 x £104,698
100 winners up with the joint license!
Many thanks to our amazingly supportive owners and the incredible team of horsewomen and men that we work together with every day.
Now for the next 💯!
When will a racehorse be ready to win?
Take a look at the data and science behind the development of young horses.
Hopefully it's helpful to owners, breeders, punters and
@RacingTV
pundits 😉
Jesus. Same old boring questions from journalists at the daily Downing Steet briefing. Surely someone has something decent to ask...or why bother? Zzzzzzzzz 😴😴😴
Finding horses at the Horses in Training Sales (HIT Sales):
After yesterday’s brave run by Astro King at York, we thought we’d explain the process we go through to find horses like him & Percy’s Lad.
The key is analysis, horsemanship and hard work!
@Baddiel
Second most attended sport in the country, more days terrestrial television coverage then any other sport, with its own dedicated newspaper, two dedicated television channels, employs 1000s in the rural economy. Enjoyed by people of all classes and backgrounds.
Celebrating a winner in Bahrain with Carter & Lofthouse!
Al Rufaa wins well under
@Dylanhogan94
on his 2nd start for Sarsen Farm
@WolvesRaces
. Top work from the team especially
@shaun_m_johnson
who rides him out everyday.
Al Rufaa was a £24k HIT purchase
@Tattersalls1766
Sometimes training horses is about the simple things.
This filly who can be a bit picky about her food, has a hay net outside her stable so she can keep an eye on the world while she eats.
Whilst we’re sure it won’t stop all the unpleasantness if it reduces, it will be a plus.
It will also allow us to focus more of our time on the horses we care for and delivering results for owners.
On International Women’s Day we call for the
@BHAPressOffice
to allow combined training licenses. Like so many other training teams we work together as equal partners. Yet only one name can appear on the license.
#Womensday
#IWD2019
#BalanceforBetter
The consolidation amongst flat trainers.
9,537 individual horses ran 2001
9,984 individual horses ran 2021
An increase of 4.7%
The top 20 British based trainers ran 2,152 horses in 2001
3,175 horses in 2021
An increase of 47.5%
These are the front feet of a new arrival. There’s a horseman’s saying “no foot, no horse” compare the left foot with the right. Getting shoeing right is an essential part of winning.
The left is fairly normal, the right is what is referred to as “upright”. The toe is also long.
Astro King strutting his stuff after his penultimate gallop prior to the $2 million Neom Turf Cup ✈️
Today he worked over the stiff 7 on Kingsdown, not a gallop we use often for fast work, it has a 3.1% gradient. The Long, our regular work gallop is 1.5% over the same distance.
A strapping son of Golden Horn, tips the scales at 560kgs already. A half brother to the Royal Ascot winner Atty Persse. He’ll be developed patiently with a long term career in mind.
Astro King tucking into his dinner ahead of his tilt at the Wolferton Stakes
@Ascot
tomorrow.
He’s in great form and thanks to all the team for their hard work preparing him.
Double Up
@Sandownpark
Ciara Pearl wins under
@D_Muscutttt
for
@DontTellClaire
for 5th career win
Salamanca Lad lands a hat trick under Billy Loughnane for
@Fellowship_synd
& the Diskovery Partnership
Rounds out a fantastic month for the team - 15 winners at a 36% strike rate!
Thanks to all the team 2022 gets off to a perfect start. L’enclume breaks her maiden on her third start for owner breeders Gary & Lesley Middlebrook. Well done jockey
@RKingscote
Backing youngsters, is about developing a horses confidence.
1. Get used to a tiny bit of weight & something above them
2. Lean over and feel weight through the saddle
3. Lie over to feel full weight & bit of rider movement
4. Take first few steps and get used to the sensation
We run Kubler Racing together as Daniel & Claire and are licensed as such.
Depressing that in the 2 days after
#InternationalWomensDay
and
#beatthebias
2 racing "bodies" fail to mention Claire when referring to our business. Never happens in reverse. It is why these days matter.
2 year old winner!
The tough and genuine Lil Guff scores
@Goodwood_Races
for owner breeders Wayne & Sarah Clifford
@byerleystuduk
under
@HollieDoyle1
- second win for the filly.
Well done team! Thanks for the hard work.
Winner!
Evening Story records the second win of her career. Well done to owner breeders Gary & Lesley Middlebrook. Great ride by
@Rossaryan15
Thanks team for all your hard work!
Astro King cantering this morning as he prepares for the
@BahrainTurfClub
International Trophy on Friday.
He’s shipped well and the team are delighted with his condition.
Smiles all around as
@Rossaryan15
bring Deceiver home in front to win his novice
@kemptonparkrace
Well done to all the team at home, Mark Lawson who rides him everyday and
@jamespulley1234
who cares for him.
Congratulations to owner breeders Gary & Lesley Middlebrook.
The new barn at Sarsen Farm is nearing completion, an exciting development that will allow the team to expand.
The strike rate in 2019 put the team in the top 10% of trainers by that measure.
Thanks to all the team who put in so much effort day in day out - great to be rewarded on the big stage!
Congratulations and thank you to all the owners Norman Carter, Graham Johnson, Howard Lofthouse & Gary Middlebrook!
Today's the day! 👑
Astro King makes amends for his unlucky defeat in the John Smith's Cup by powering home to land the
@SkyBet
Finale Handicap under William Buick.
Great work
@KublerRacing
👏
How to read a pedigree
This is how they are typically presented. A pedigree is a family tree. Mothers are called dams, fathers sires.
The red circle shows the subject horse’s parentage. The top line is the sire (blue box) and the bottom(pink) the dam, and in turn their parents.
A perfect morning for developing horses. At this stage most of the horses are in the early phases of getting fit for the turf season.
These are doing single canters on the 5.5 furlong (1100m) short gallop. They canter at around 20 seconds per furlong pace (22.5mph, 36kph).
And the winner of the 2020
#LycettsTeamChampion
Award category for less than 40 horses in training is DAN KUBLER! 🏆
Congratulations to the whole team at
@KublerRacing
!
Therefore, for the foreseeable we’ll be posting details of our runners but keep opinions to ourselves and the horse’s owners, like other yards.
It’s a shame that people feel they can behave appallingly behind the veil of anonymity. In doing so they spoil enjoyment of others.
A huge amount effort from many people has gone in to developing our base at Sarsen Farm.
Credit to travelling manager for
@shaun_m_johnson
for capturing the specialness of it this morning.
Such a cool horse, 7 wins since joining us at Sarsen Farm!
Well done owner
@JamesFGun
and thanks to all the team especially Shannon Passotti who rides and cares for Andy!
Big win
@ChesterRaces
for Outgate.
@RKingscote
steers the three year old colt to victory in the feature
@betway
£100,000 handicap.
Thanks to all the team for their hard work and well done the owner breeders Gary & Lesley Middlebrook and the team at Wood Farm who raised him.
Winner!
Well done team, Abbey Heights breaks his maiden comfortably
@NewcastleRaces
. He is a 3yo son of
@YeomanstownStud
Dark Angel and bred by his owners Gary & Lesley Middlebrook.
No foot no horse.
This horse arrived with a narrow hoof. Our skilled farrier is encouraging it to broaden.
Hoof grows down from the top. The line marked with the green shows the new growth. The red shows how the new growth should lead to a bigger more “normal” foot.
Winner!
The progressive Siempre Arturo lands his second win in a row. Taking his career tally to four wins from eight starts.
Congratulations to owner breeder Viv O’Sullivan and her racing partners
@Crowd_Racing
Thanks to all the team - Hard work paying off!
Winner!
Accrual lands his novice to make it two career wins from three starts.
Well done to owner breeders Gary & Lesley Middlebrook.
Top work from the team. Thanks for all your hard work.
Sustained wins on debut
@WolvesRaces
a brave performance by horse and jockey
@Dylanhogan94
!
Congratulations to all members of the Diskovery Partnership.
Well done and thanks to all the team to for developing him!
Lil Guff wins for the 4th time!!
Well done owner breeders Wayne &
@SARAHCLIFFORD12
@byerleystuduk
Top effort by jockey
@Dylanhogan94
and all the team to keep her in great form especially her dedicated rider & groom Epona Miller.
Astro King’s final easy canter before he runs in the Neom Turf Cup tomorrow.
Everyone happy with his preparation.
Thanks to all the team for their hardwork, those out here and those back at home.
#strivingtogether
He runs at 19.10 local time, 16.10 UK Time.
@osbornejamie
It may not be the best approach but it’s sad that these examples are able to be presented.
Do trainers who carry out these practices deserve to be licensed?
Wrote this a few weeks ago
RACE 4 RESULT - THE OWNERS GROUP MEDIAN AUCTION MAIDEN STAKES (CLASS 5)
🥇 Bowland Park
🥈 Dromquinna
🥉 Doonbeg Farmer
Jockey: David Egan
Trainer:
@KublerRacing
Owner: Mr & Mrs G Middlebrook
📸
@JohnnyHathaway
@ownersgroupuk
Phenomenal effort from Andaleep, takes apart a competitive
@yorkracecourse
handicap to land his sixth win since joining the Sarsen Farm team posting a career best in the process!
Well done owner
@JamesFGun
all team team especially his regular rider & groom Shannon Passotti
We train racehorses for their owners, the aim is always to win. Sometimes things don’t work out. Nothing is more disappointing to us than a poor performance.
To then get abused and have your integrity questioned when you’ve put in a huge amount of work to win isn’t pleasant.
Well done team!
Another top ride from
@liamkeniry
to bring home Lovers’ Gait to make her record 2 from 2 since joining the yard.
Congratulations to owners Simon Hope & Stephen Barrow. 👏🍾
RACE 7 RESULT - THE FILLIES HANDICAP (CLASS 5)
🥇 Lovers' Gait
🥈 Diva Kareem
🥉 Rock Of Fame
Jockey:
@liamkeniry
Trainer:
@KublerRacing
Owner: S R Hope & S W Barrow
📸
@jmp_uk
New Purchase: Al Rufaa
For Sale, outright or would consider share options.
Like Astro King, by Kingman and in need of a little Sarsen Farm magic to rejuvenate him to his peak 💫
Seneca Chief (6-4F) bolts up in a winning start for favourite backers at
@ChelmsfordCRC
@KublerRacing
Enjoy nine more races from a bumper card live on Racing TV
Racecard ➡
Tips ➡
Winner!
Southwold makes it 3 wins from 10 career starts for owner breeders Gary & Lesley Middlebrook.
@Luke_Morris88
strong in the saddle to get his head in front where it mattered.
Thanks team for all your hard work!
Super effort from Ciara Pearl at Royal Ascot - a very creditable mid-division finish from a filly still developing. More to come and keep an eye on her young rider Jack Doughty.
The new normal!
Great to be back racing yesterday.
The protocols were straightforward and everything seemed to run smoothly. A great effort by all the people on the resumption of racing committee to make it happen.
Racing stakeholders working together! 👏
Winner!
Fiscal Policy lands career win number 3 under Kaiya Fraser for owners & breeders Gary & Lesley Middlebrook
Well done team for all your hard work.
Southwold makes it 2 wins from 3 starts!
A work in progress given a great ride by
@RKingscote
for owner breeders Gary & Lesley Middlebrook. Well done team 👏