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Five year-old Kayf Tara mare Tara Two Hills made it two wins from two starts with an eight-length victory at Bangor-on-Dee on Saturday, 11 October.
Her debut triumph had been recorded in similar fashion when she strolled home ten lengths clear of her rivals at Worcester in July. Two such pleasing performances have left owner Bill Walker and trainer Anthony Honeyball contemplating stepping their talented mare up to Listed class for her next racecourse outing.
Tara Two Hills is out of the winning point-to-pointer Sloe Hill (Le Moss), who is a half-sister to the eight-time National Hunt winner Moondigua. She has passed through a sales ring three times in her life, having been sold by her breeder Douglas King as a foal, then appearing at Doncaster as a three-year-old before heading to Ascot this April, where she was knocked down to her current trainer for 3,000gns.
This was the second dual bumper winner for Kayf Tara in recent weeks. Four-year-old Megasue, who also recorded her first win at Worcester, by a very impressive 24 lengths, confirmed her initial promise when scoring again at Fontwell, again with plenty in hand, on 4 October. Megasue is the first foal of Megalex (Karinga Bay) and was bred by her owner Jeremy Hinds of Pleasure Palace Racing.
16-8-10
Sadly the Hawk wing yearling filly had to put down 24 hours after her operation. She was in alot of pain which the vets couldn't reduce with drugs so they felt it was best to put her out of her misery. Although we are now left with just a very large bill for her care at least I know that everything that could have been done was done.
We are also going to be looking for a new permenant member of staff this autumn as Vikki Chorley is leaving us after 4 years to ride eventers. Vikki was in charge of one of the yards so is a senior member of staff and I expect will be hard to replace.
6-8-10
After reporting some Overbury bred winners last week we are now experiencing the flipside of breeding (or generally looking after livestock).
The yearling out of Flying Finsh - a filly by Hawk Wing - showed signs of colic on monday. She was checked by a vet who gave some pain killer and muscle relaxant. There was no sign of a twisted gut and she settled back to normal very quickly. All was well until wednesday morning when she again showed signs of colic, but this time her heart rate and temperature where raised. She went straight into the vets clinic where an infection in her gut - peritonitis - was confirmed. We had hoped that a heavy dose of antibiotisc might cure the problem but this morning she sickened quite rapidly. The vets advice was then there was no choise other than to operate and hope to find a problem. I have just been told that they have found an abscess on the outside of the gut which will have to be removed. Chance of sucess is rated at less than 50% and the operation is an expensive one. The only good thing is that if she survives there shouldn't be any recurring problems as a result of this.
In the meantime we just have to wait and hope.
(I'm away until the end of next week but will give a follow up on my return).
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