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Lou Luciani is one of the most experienced horse trainers in WA. He offers owners a complete package, from selecting and buying a horse through to agistment, training and racing. He takes care of everything – from organizing horse floats to taking care of paperwork – so that owners can have as much or as little hands-on as they want.

Friday 27 November 2009

BUSY DAY AT ASCOT ON SATURDAY

This weekend sees our stable have it's busiest race day for quite a long time when we head to Ascot with as many as six runners. The busy time coincides with the return to the stables of my son Dion and his girlfriend Sarah who have both been travelling the world on a working holiday, gaining plenty of valuable information and experience along the way. I can't say that the busy day is a result of them both being back at work but more a coincidence however it could signal the start of a few more busy days over the next few weeks.

We head out to Ascot with ASCOLI in race one, ALMOHAD in R3, ROSE OF MAY in R7, HIFALUTIN in R8 and CROWN OF CAITLIN and BASKERVILLE STREET in R9.Whilst ALMOHAD is a short priced favourite for his step up to 2200m, I also feel that most of the others are also good chances in their respective races. ALMOHAD is chasing his third win on the trot and he has done nothing wrong since his last start to suggest that he wont be hard to beat again tomorrow.

CROWN OF CAITLIN won her third race when again winning first up some weeks ago and she is also a good chance in her race late in the day. All my other runners had very good excuses when unplaced at their last starts and any one of them could shake the life out of their race tomorrow without surprising. Between getting caught wide, getting badly interfered with or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time makes all their performances a lot better than they read on paper.

If we can get amongst them early on tomorrow it could be the start to an exciting month of racing coming up.

Monday 16 November 2009

ALMOHAD AGAIN

Up and coming young stayer ALMOHAD again showed on Saturday just what he is capable of doing. The lightly raced four year old son of Rock of Gibraltar raced in a far more forward position on Saturday after jockey Jason Whiting summed up the pace or lack of pace in the early stages of the race.

We have been more accustomed to ALMOHAD settling further back in the field however with a bit of freshness on his side due to a three week break from racing, the horse was able to position up a lot closer and still hit the line strongly. I made mention after his last win that the horse was capable of winning his way through to open company if he can keep it all together mentally. A bit of extra body maturity wouldn't go astray either!

ALMOHAD will be kept racing in restricted company for at least one more start and we will then have a good look at where he is at and how much more he is ready to do this campaign. The connections have allowed me to be as patient as possible with the horse and there is no doubt that the horse has derived a lot of benefit from the extra time he has been given.

I will assess the horse over the next week or so and decide whether to have another three week gap or maybe step out again in two weeks. Either way we will let the horse tell us when and where he is ready to go again.

Thursday 12 November 2009

CROWN OF CAITLIN HOME IN THE WET



No its not a fuzzy or out of focus picture!! Pinjarra was hit by a heavy thunderstorm just as the horses were heading to the barriers for CROWN OF CAITLIN'S race and no doubt the bad weather and some moisture on the camera helped deliver this less than perfect shot. Not that anyone was complaining mind you. There is never a bad time to win a race!!! The mare came from well back on the corner to win well when running on hard down the outside of the track.

Sunday 8 November 2009

SATURDAYS RUNNERS ALL RUN WELL.

Even though we left the course without a winner yesterday, I was more than happy with the performances of my horses.

Both two year olds showed promise in the opening race with AMELIA'S GLORY being a bit unlucky not to gain clear room in the straight. ASCOLI ran a game third in the second race and although it appears as though she had every opportunity, I reckon had she settled on position further forward she would have given the winner a run for his money.

In the last race FOUND AND KEPT was rolling along nicely back in the field before looking for runs on the inside of runners in the straight and being held up for quite a bit of the way. He hit the line strongly and should be hard to beat next time out. He is a horse who I feel goes a lot better when given more galloping room in the straight.

All in all I have been happy with the way the stable horses have been performing of late and I am confident that when the wheel finally does turn we will have more than our share of success over the next few months.

IT'S ALL STARTING TO HOT UP!!

As we head into another season of summer racing its not just the weather which is starting to hot up. In recent weeks I have noticed a real turning of the tide in the results from our horses and hopefully we are over our quietest season for a long time.

Two weeks ago ALMOHAD was successful over 1600m at Ascot and he is now ready to step out again at Ascot this coming weekend. Last weekend my filly ASCOLI was unplaced at Ascot however her performance suggested that she would not take long to break through for her first win. She ran an unlucky third yesterday and hit the line strongly.

During the week we had AMELIA'S LAD run a great second over 1600m at Ascot on Cup day however he has suffered an injury to his knee and will require surgery before he races again.

On Thursday I took three runners to Pinjarra where the club has a $10,000 bonus incentive for any trainer who can win three races on the one day. I figured all would run well so why not have a go. My first two were beaten a total of about ten inches before my third runner won in great style topping off a good day.

FUMIO and TERADA were having there first ever race starts and both got a bit lost the first time down the Pinjarra straight however both will improve many lengths the next time the step out. CROWN OF CAITLIN was stepping out first up for this campaign and she maintained her brilliant first up form with a near last to first performance which is very hard to do anywhere let alone at Pinjarra.

All three have pulled up well and I am sure we will find another suitable race for them soon.