Both horses back safe and sound thank goodness. Will Biddick said that Top Garry was still feeling his back as he couldn't shorten into his fences and lost ground if we wasn't on a good stride. We will get his back looked again but my gut feeling is that he isn't aggressive enough to be a racehorse and is a bit 'soft'. He is the loveliest person and almost too nice to be a racehorse so we will have to think about what the right thing would be to do with him in the future  for his own sake. We were so proud of little Archie as although he pulled up two from home he jumped really well and Will made sure he enjoyed the experience. I was very reluctant to put him in a short maiden as I wanted him to have plenty of time to see his fences and Will said it was all too quick for him. However, he was really pleased with his attitude and said he would come on in leaps and bounds from his run. He wasn't at all tired and has just eaten up so a very good job done.

We watched the National from the race track as they had a big screen and it was fantastic to see a female jockey, Rachel Blackmore winning the race for the first time ever. History has been made and a very well deserved winner with Rachel. 

We are keeping everything crossed for tomorrow and hoping that the ground will be good enough to run Field Exhibition.