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14 winners and £90k in prizemoney in 2009
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January 1st 2009
Its been a tough year for the bloodstock and racehorse training
establishments, with spiralling costs and less and less owners willing
to pay the expensive fees it takes to keep a horse in training.
With the prizemoney in 2010 looking to be taking a dip as well as the
Levy from betting reduces, its a bleak outlook for many small trainers.
However, Ownaracehorse has made the most of the suppressed bloodstock
market, and we have invested in eight new horses for 2010! We
continue to support the younger, up and coming trainers and will enter
2010 with our first trainer in Scotland - George Foster.
Not all these new horses will appear on the Ownaracehorse website just
yet, but we are expecting to allow the best of the bunch to become
Ownaracehorse options once they have proved they are capable and
competitive.
We managed to record some impressive statistics in 2009 - including 14
winners (a strike rate of 11% on winners to runners) and we earned over
£90,000 in penalty value prizemoney across the 18 horses we had in
training during the year.
But for a couple of losses by less than a nose, it could have quite
easily been our best ever year yet. Namir was particularly unlucky
not to record a win and Friendship Bay looked always to be the
bridesmaid with three placed runs, but it all came right at Worcester
late in the season, when he won his Bumper in great fashion with Timmy
Murphy aboard.
Star of the ranks was Sarah's Art. This impressive grey was bought
for only £3,000 a couple of years ago by our bloodstock team, but has
already won eight races for shareholders and earned over £50,000 in
prizemoney. He had a cracking 2009, winning five times and earning
over £35,000.
Its also worth mentioning Friendship Bay, Panama at Once, Namir,
Councellor, Siena Star, Petrus de Sormain, Grand Palace and My Best Bet
- who all contributed to a tremendous year overall. As ever, we
had our disappointments, as you always do with racehorses. Don't
Be So Sakhee looked like a really lovely horse, but broke down on her
opening run for us. Tenjack King, Billy One Punch and
Shakespeare's Son promised much, but niggles and injuries meant they
didn't deliver in 2009, but we are very hopeful for 2010.
Looking back at 2009, our 35% placed rate (placed to runners) is another
statistic of which we are very proud. We intend to provide value for money
from our horses to shareholders, and if our horses are on average
earning prizemoney once in every three times they race, we are way ahead
of the industry average - which is that only 25% of horses earn any
prizemoney each season, never mind every three times they race!
However, perhaps what we are most proud of as we go into 2010, is the
fact that we have the strongest group of horses we have ever had to
date. We have some nice younger horses yet to run, and some very
decent older horses who will once again fly the flag for shareholders up
and down the country.
The best of luck to all shareholders in 2010 - it should be another good
year!
Richard L
Ownaracehorse
01/01/2010.
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