Peter W Chapple-Hyam

Glory days rodrigo dr devious spectrum turtle island white muzzle balanchine at 2

In the paper the other day that Manton is about to be sold to the fella who made his fortune selling daffodils, and who "doesn't do racing"!

Be a shame if it fell into the wrong hands its some place set up

Pencader looked like he was going to be very good in the early 90s but didnt amount to much in the end.

Yes had some 2yr old good things first time up ready new there job

MANTON - Never been the same, apparently, since the  George Todd days.

Colonel Collins looked very good in his 2yo maiden at the Newmarrket July meeting,winning by 7L if memory is correct

wouldlove to see chapple hyam back at the top, great handler and personality to match

Even Henry Cecil couldn't do it with the horses and owners when he lost some of both when they either took their horses elsewhere or a few of his main owners passed away and he was down to 26 winner one season. PCW can still do it if he has the horses to.

Regarding Manton and Michael Dickinson's time there, if I remember rightly the vast majority of the string were 2YOs and he was only there one season so what exactly was Robert Sangster expecting?

Looks like it could have been '6 of one and half-a-dozen of the other', though -

- as they were all 'Bluebood' bred - but most ran pretty appallingly.

very very rarely do I bet on a 2 year old the first time round, but I remember years ago at York backing one of Chapple Hyam's that was owned by Sangster called Rambrino, I backed it 3 times and was stood on the steps thinking what have I done backing a horse first time out for this amount of money? it cantered in and then I think it went on to win at the royal meeting.

8/15 Fav at York - ronnie

It went on to finish 6th in the Coventry - then 4th at Glorious Goodwood - before downhill afterwards.
You got the right - and 'one and only' winning day.

A straight talker and a nice guy , rem a tv pundit asked him before  rodrigo ran on a live tv race , he turned and said its a certainty the guy did not know what to say to that

Spoke to him in the street after a Chester meeting two years ago. Discussed the good old days. He said "that was a long time ago". Deserves a change of fortunes.

Had good staff when he first started up which was a massive help