Newmarket has been a hive of activity with the sales going on at Tattersalls and last week's foal sales are now followed by the fillies & mares sale which we have two horses entered in.
Cabrini was very unlucky not to win a race this year with a string of places to her name. The plan was always to sell her at the ned of this season as she is well bred and will make a lovely broodmare. Her half brother is currently racing in group races in Australia and should improve the pedigree. She is very sound and could race on for another year as well.

Raha is another very sound filly who hasn't had much luck this year with her favoured soft ground not being available during our nationwide dry spell. She is handicapped to win and has been freshened up since her last run ready for training again.

The two fillies sell on Thursday and just to make life a bit more hectic we also have a runner at Chelmsford that day.
Engrave is building back to form and ran a fine second last time. The handicapper put her up 3lb for that which is very harsh so she'll need to improve a bit more but we know she loves the course and she should give it another good go.

Hot Romance is due to run at Kempton tomorrow but I haven't been 100% happy with her over the weekend so we will likely give it a miss. It's nothing serious and she'll be back again in no time.

Although the week-long break from flat racing didn't affect us too much as there was still plenty of work to be done at home in the yard, it was good to see plenty of jockeys enjoying some rare time off as most of them seemed to jet off abroad for some sun. Dylan and Shelley spent a week in Dubai but I think it was a shock to their system when they came back this weekend after winter had well and truly arrived!
Talking of jockeys, we will sadly be losing our apprentice Sam at the end of the week as he makes the move up north to join the powerful stable of Karl Burke. It's a great shame to lose him but it will be a massive boost to his own career and will hopefully give him the chance to flourish with some more rides. He will of course still ride for us when the opportunity allows and we wish him all the best in his next chapter.

Before then we have a couple of runners this week as all the action switches to the all-weather for the winter months.
Queen's Company had a couple of entries but we skipped a race on Monday for hopefully an easier opportunity at Kempton on Wednesday. The race is due to divide with lots of entries but she is guaranteed a run and hopefully we can get the easier division. Her two runs to date have been very promising and suggest she could win a little novice race so this could be her chance if getting a good draw and luck in running.

The other runner for the week comes on Thursday with Heer's Sadie at Wolverhampton. She hasn't been running too badly since winning in the summer and she has some decent form at the track from earlier in her career. As always on the all-weather, she'll need a good draw and she should have a chance if getting that.