IT WAS great to get another win on the board last week with Harry Junior winning for the first time in his career at Lingfield. Bought as a store horse, he has taken plenty of time to mature and there is still improvement to come.

Gold in the Rivers made a very pleasing chasing debut on the same card at Lingfield to be second. Hopefully he can build on this next time and we can have some fun this winter.

The weather was atrocious on Friday at home and at Cheltenham but Walkadina ran well enough in the conditional jockeys handicap hurdle. Rian Corcoran gave her a good ride and produced her to challenge after the second last but she didn’t quite see out the 2m5f trip up the hill which she was trying for the first time and she finished fifth. We will drop back in distance next time.

Cheltenham had to pass a Saturday morning inspection for racing to go ahead following a deluge of rain on Friday and while racing was on, I decided not to run Parchment on account of the ground.

Jurancon was disappointing at Cheltenham on Saturday. He is a lovely horse who I rate highly and I expected him to go well but as we know they are not machines. We will see how he is in the coming days but we know this run was too bad to be true and can put a line through it.

On Sunday our five year old Bras D’or made a promising hurdling debut to finish and is a horse very much for the future. Lady Balko was thrown in at the deep end a little in a classy race and pulled up just before the last fence. With a little help from the handicapper and her sights lowered a little, she can return to winning ways.

Our first runner of this week will be Chemical Warfare at Lingfield on Tuesday who returns from a break to run in the 2m6f handicap chase. Life will still be tougher off his rating of 116 but he is a cracking each way bet.

On Wednesday, we will be travelling to Hexham and Ffos Las. No Walkover will make is stable debut in the bumper on the card at Hexham and he is one I am looking forward to getting started.

Our other trio of runners are at Ffos Las where Shot Boii will make his seasonal reappearance in the three-mile handicap chase in the colours of the David Pipe Racing Club. Allstitchedup ran well on hurdling debut at Ffos Las last time so we are going back again where he should improve from his comeback run.

Jaipaletemps is our final runner and he won at the course last time out and runs with a penalty. He likes the track and ground and I hope he will be hard to beat.

Mancero has an entry at Wincanton on Thursday while we have entries at Ascot, Catterick and Chepstow while on Saturday the plans is for Phantomofthepoints to run at Haydock in the big handicap hurdle race.

On Sunday we have entries at Exeter so keep checking the Daily News on the website for all the latest news on the stable runners.

David Pipe was talking to racing correspondent Richard Walsh