We have now had our 12th year at Whitcoombe House and also had our best season with 63 winners, we have just finished building a new barn as we have got our biggest team of horses since we first started training.

Over the last few years we have been trying to improve the quality of our string and i feel we have got the best team of horses we have ever had.

 We are grateful that Ian Pugh's company Group Clean Ltd are still sponsoring the yard and i hope that his horses have as good a season this year as they did last year.

We have a very good team at home and Jeremy Young is still looking after things as Head Lad in the yard, and his wife Bridget  organising the office.

 We have Chrissy Barnard in charge of travelling the horses to the races with Daniel Havle as her back up. This year we have a lot of Jockey talent in the yard with as four looking for licences. Peter Toole is our 7lb claimer.

 We are lucky to have Noel Fehily who is in his 12th year with us, he has also just had his best ever season as a Jockey.