Ben Clarke

The summer has been very quiet on the racing front with just 8 runners since 1st May. 6 of the 8 did finish in the first 4, however we did anticipate being a lot busy through May, but with no rainfall the decision was taken to pack the horses off on their holidays and bide […]

The move to Higher Crockermoor last July has rewarded us with our most successful season to date. We have netted our highest prize money tally since starting training and had several high profile ITV runners who ran with real credit. It’s always a big challenge learning the best ways to use new gallops but we […]

El Bandido Pancho in the hands of Rex Dingle secured a well deserved first victory at Newton Abbot in the 2 mile 5 f novices handicap hurdle. All of last season we struggled to keep Pancho healthy which resulted in him gaining a low opening handicap mark. He fell when looking the winner on handicap […]

We ventured to Scotland for the second time in 3 weeks for another £100,000 race this time in the Scottish Champion Hurdle under Ben Jones. Betty was smartly away over the first few hurdles before losing her pitch through the heavily watered ground entering the back straight. She looked booked for 5th jumping 3 out […]

The horses have been running incredibly well over the last 10 days. We’ve had 4 seconds, a 3rd and Renoir getting his head in front where it matters yesterday at Hereford. Having put in a very good effort on handicap debut at Taunton when beaten less than 2 lengths, Renoir built on that effort when […]

Good Friday Fairy wins for the second time in 12 days at Taunton in the 2 mile 5f handicap chase. GFF has well and truly hit top form in the last fortnight with 2 decisive wins at Wincanton and Taunton. On both occasions he has been partnered by Sam Twiston-Davies who has really gelled and […]

Game Colours continued a productive few days for the yard with a dominant victory in the 2 mile mares novice hurdle at Lingfield in the hands of Sean Bowen. Colours has improved with every run this season having been placed in each of her 3 starts, latterly finishing 3rd in a £25k handicap at Fakenham […]

After a frustrating few weeks, a winner and a second at Wincanton was just what the team needed. The day started in perfect fashion with Good Friday Fairy hosing up in the 2 mile 4f handicap chase in the hands of Sam Twiston-Davies. With first time cheek pieces applied, GFF never missed a beat from […]

Firstly I’d like to wish everyone a very happy and healthy new year. Ooh Betty put a disappointing run in the Gerry Feilden at Newbury firmly behind her by making all to win at Kempton in the class 3 £20k handicap. I was very frustrated after Newbury, having been the plan since the summer however […]

The tremendous form of the team shows no sign of stopping with 2 more winners to make it 4 winners and 2 placed efforts from our last 6 runners! We are operating at a 66% strike rate in the last 14 days and over 40% strike rate from all our runners from Higher Crockermoor this […]