Thank you for visiting this web-site. It has
been designed to keep as many of my friends up
to date with what is happening with the horses
which run either in my name, together with
friends or under the banner of
Highland Racing.
In
March 2002 I was invited to join
Ally McManus,
Iain McCall,
Brian
Cottam and others at the
Cheltenham Festival
which was for them a regular engagement. I think
Ally was a little worried that I would not enjoy it,
not knowing the horses or the form, but he need not
have worried. Those 3 days quite literally changed
my life, as I fell in love with the racing, the
colours, the crowds and excitement of the race.
On
my return home and spurred on by a then neighbour
Henry
Mennie, I visited
Lucinda
Russell,
the Perthshire based trainer and acquired my first
horse, a rather splendid cast off called
Wainak for the price of a very
poor second-hand car. This originally very expensive
flat bred horse did me proud over hurdles and rarely
ran a bad race, and appropriately gave me my first
winner in August 2004, two years and 26 runners on
from the start of the adventure.
Over the next few years other horses have followed
as did partnerships with friends and then some
syndicate/joint ownership horses which run in the
name of Highland Racing. Some of my friends
and fellow owners live and work literally in every
corner of the world, and I know their excitement,
anticipation and enjoyment of the joys of ownership
are every bit as great as mine. We have been
lucky,35 winners from 251 runners at the time of
writing and some very nice promising horses in the
string. Hopefully that tally will move forward, on a
regular basis.
My
6 years in the game have been wonderful, and have
been privileged to meet up with some great people
and personalities within the sport and have made
many new friends, some of whom share in the horses
with me. I have been involved in some great
adventures and if I ever get around to putting pen
to paper, I'm sure I could produce a riveting,
hilarious read.
I
do hope you find the content of the web-site
interesting. It was originally launched in May 2008
and rather like Topsy has grown arms and legs. At the
time I am writing this, which is Revamp #1 in April
2009,we have had 30,000 visits and I know form
comments received that it seems to be essential
reading each Monday after the Weekly Update.
The Open Forum has
been, shall we say
interesting, with some "pure class" postings as
clearly ,very clever people pen a variety of
opinions about a cohort of Racing Topics, under a
guise of "Nome de Plumes". The standard of some of
these has been of the very highest literary order
and have not gone un-noticed by some of our
Journalistic friends who visit the site, and
from time to time the Lawyers of some of the
Trainers who are continually besieged. That said it's
all in good humour and 2000 postings are testimony
to the ambitions of many that can be found on the
site daily.
Moving forward we say goodbye to
The
Scribbler who is off to work for Racing
Today and I hope that fans of our topical
correspondent can catch up with him there. We say
thank you to him for his column over the last
year,it has brightened up many dull Monday
I
hope to meet as many of you around the Racing
circuit in the months ahead, cheering home those
Winners
Cheers
William Powrie
