Gamla Stan
At the Start
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As some of you may recall, a few weeks ago I posted a thread about our syndicates difficulty with finding a new horse after parting company with Brut and David Barker.
Well after a stressful few weeks and with a lot of help we've finally got one...
We've purchased Giovanni D'Oro out of Neville Callaghan's yard. Giovanni D'Oro (We've started calling him Gio!) was owned by Michael Tabor and made 270,000 gns as a yearling. I've been told that Gio is the fourth most expensive offspring of Johannesburg to be sold at public auction. Obviously, he's disappointed Coolmore at Callaghan's and now he's rated 52, he serves no purpose for either party. He's had 6 starts and started to show some promise in his last 2, finishing 4th at Wolverhampton after travelling very well and finishing 6th at Brighton where he got badly outpaced and got banged about a bit before staying on well suggesting he needs a longer trip (7f+).
He will be trained by Mandy Rowland who is based in the Sherwood Forest near Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. Mandy hasn't had an enormous amount of flat horses but she's done well with what she's had, and in 2006 she had 35 runners with 11 of those seeing the winners enclosure in some form! She's got her own land and gallops with great facilities for a small yard and being just 20 mins from Southwell racecourse is helpful.
Me and Mandy went down to Newmarket earlier in the week to see Gio and Mandy was happy with him but he needs to fill out a bit as he's rather skinny at present. One of the lads at Callaghan's said that Newmarket stresses Gio out and he goes off his food after some serious work or a race and he said a change of scenery could improve him and that's what we hope will happen. He obviously hasn't had much attention at Callaghan's, a 52 rated Michael Tabor owned horse won't do I suppose and he's been fed what the others have got, at Mandy's he'll get what he wants within reason! He'll have a lot more fuss made of him and he'll be able to hack out in the forest and generally relax a lot more than at Newmarket. Overall, I hope he'll be a happier horse. He'll take it easy at Mandy's for the next week or so, just settling into his new surroundings before we step up his work. We hope to have him out again in our colours by early June; probably over 7f or a mile, we feel at 3, he still has improvement in him and whilst he'll never recoup his high sales value as a yearling, we hope he'll provide us with some fun over the next few years.
I went to see him this morning and he was being a bit of a lad, ruining a new rug in the field by rolling around and managing to give himself even more cuts since he gave himself some in the lorry (As you'll see below!) He also refused to go into his stable and we had to get some polos out in order to get him in! I therefore didn't get many good photos of him but there is one below for you all to look at, sorry he's looking a bit tatty, I'll get some better ones in a couple of weeks.
Finally, thank you for all the help and support I've had from members of this forum, a number of you have been excellent and gone out of your way to help us find a horse and this is much appreciated. We do have a few shares available in him so if anyone is interested, then please drop me a PM.
Well after a stressful few weeks and with a lot of help we've finally got one...
We've purchased Giovanni D'Oro out of Neville Callaghan's yard. Giovanni D'Oro (We've started calling him Gio!) was owned by Michael Tabor and made 270,000 gns as a yearling. I've been told that Gio is the fourth most expensive offspring of Johannesburg to be sold at public auction. Obviously, he's disappointed Coolmore at Callaghan's and now he's rated 52, he serves no purpose for either party. He's had 6 starts and started to show some promise in his last 2, finishing 4th at Wolverhampton after travelling very well and finishing 6th at Brighton where he got badly outpaced and got banged about a bit before staying on well suggesting he needs a longer trip (7f+).
He will be trained by Mandy Rowland who is based in the Sherwood Forest near Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. Mandy hasn't had an enormous amount of flat horses but she's done well with what she's had, and in 2006 she had 35 runners with 11 of those seeing the winners enclosure in some form! She's got her own land and gallops with great facilities for a small yard and being just 20 mins from Southwell racecourse is helpful.
Me and Mandy went down to Newmarket earlier in the week to see Gio and Mandy was happy with him but he needs to fill out a bit as he's rather skinny at present. One of the lads at Callaghan's said that Newmarket stresses Gio out and he goes off his food after some serious work or a race and he said a change of scenery could improve him and that's what we hope will happen. He obviously hasn't had much attention at Callaghan's, a 52 rated Michael Tabor owned horse won't do I suppose and he's been fed what the others have got, at Mandy's he'll get what he wants within reason! He'll have a lot more fuss made of him and he'll be able to hack out in the forest and generally relax a lot more than at Newmarket. Overall, I hope he'll be a happier horse. He'll take it easy at Mandy's for the next week or so, just settling into his new surroundings before we step up his work. We hope to have him out again in our colours by early June; probably over 7f or a mile, we feel at 3, he still has improvement in him and whilst he'll never recoup his high sales value as a yearling, we hope he'll provide us with some fun over the next few years.
I went to see him this morning and he was being a bit of a lad, ruining a new rug in the field by rolling around and managing to give himself even more cuts since he gave himself some in the lorry (As you'll see below!) He also refused to go into his stable and we had to get some polos out in order to get him in! I therefore didn't get many good photos of him but there is one below for you all to look at, sorry he's looking a bit tatty, I'll get some better ones in a couple of weeks.
Finally, thank you for all the help and support I've had from members of this forum, a number of you have been excellent and gone out of your way to help us find a horse and this is much appreciated. We do have a few shares available in him so if anyone is interested, then please drop me a PM.
