Hello Friend,

Exciting Opportunity... to become a Grade 1 winning jumps owner?

I hope this email finds you in good form. The jumps season proper is fast approaching, with Chepstow's Silver Trophy meeting now less than eight weeks away - hurrah!

I thought I would email you about my RTP Syndicates (RTPS) with some updates, a look at the season ahead and an exciting opportunity... 

Some of you may just enjoy flicking through below (and noting our initial plans with the horses), some of you may well want to cheer up your winter ahead and join our fun group of fellow racing fans.

Pour yourself a hot drink and have a good read of what follows...

I do have something for you to spend your Peregrine Run winnings on! (thanks to those of you who emailed in, it sounds like a fair few of you had a go which is always good to see, the write up doing it's job!)

The next few months promise to be very exciting, don't miss out...

RTPS #1

We have a few spaces free in our first syndicate, as we head into our Year 2, which starts on 1st September. (1 year commitment only)

We lease two horses from our trainer Amy Murphy, 50% in each of Proud Mari and now Kaleb.

Two very well bred horses, both unexposed and the expectation is that they can become proper Saturday horses and who knows, maybe take us to a few Festivals along the way.

Both were bred by Amy's dad, Paul Murphy, and we're privileged to be able to run them in our colours. Unless spending big big money, horses with this breeding/potential simply do not come around that often for any jumps syndicates.

When I say this is your chance to become a Grade 1 winning owner I'm obviously thinking big and dreaming... but Proud Mari's mother won a Grade 1 over fences, she's showing plenty of exciting signs at home and of course very nearly won her only rules race to date for us at Worcester in May. She's had a couple of months off but is now back in work and the anticipation for this season and the next few seasons is building.

The aim with her will be to win a novice hurdle ASAP, and she should be back out in October. Every time you see her she'll be there to win - Amy's dad will want to breed from her at some point, so a case of aiming high for Class 1s, and seeing where we end up.

There's now a superb mares programme and the hope will be to get black-type at some point. She should be much better than a handicapper in time. If she can get to the level of her mother, she could well end up being the best horse to ever wear our colours. That's exciting.

Kaleb is another homebred, out of Paul's mare Kalane, who was a very smart race mare, last seen hacking up in a Doncaster Listed Mares Chase, before being retired to the breeding sheds. She's a full sister to Kalashnikov and her mother was an unraced sister to Gold Cup Winner, Kicking King. Not bad!

Kaleb's sire is Sir Percy, whose best jumpers so far have been Knight Salute and Presenting Percy - we will have some fun if he turns out like those two! (again, you have to dream!)

He was sent to France for hurdle debut a few weeks back (in search of softer ground) and ran a decent staying on 3rd, and like Proud Mari, may be seen to his best when stepped up to 2m4f or so. He takes his racing well and should be seen plenty on course.

The aim with him will be to win a novice hurdle ASAP also, and he could well be out the back end of September. With any luck both have won a race or three by Christmas. He will be treated as if he's better than a handicapper and then we shall go from there.

Amy is super excited by both of them and opportunities like this don't come around too often - to own lease shares in jumps horses with this potential is rare, certainly for the cost.

You can realise your dream and find out more HERE >>>

Who knows, maybe you'll be standing in the Cheltenham or Aintree winners' enclosure one day, having your photo taken next to one of those two above. The greatest game.

Of course there's much more to a great syndicate experience than just the horses, and I'd like to think we do a very good job on the communications front and organising plenty of social opportunities. You'll make new racing friends.

So, two exciting horses for the price of one, and it works out at less than a cup of Costa coffee per day.

I doubt these remaining spaces will last long, even more so after one or both of them win, and once you're in, you get first refusal as to whether to continue into the next year.

You can find out more HERE >>>

If you decide you can't wait to join in the fun, email me:

rtpsyndicate@gmail.com

(first come first serve, don't delay)

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RTPS #3 - Give Me A Boom

My latest purchase from the Irish Pointing fields is starting to settle into Amy's routine, having had a few months off to fatten up. He will start cantering soon. He's only 4 and has some size and scope about him. We're hoping he'll prove to be a bargain purchase at 16k all in and will be some chaser in time.

He ran a cracker on his only race under rules in a decent Faiyhouse bumper (6th of 12, staying on well having shown inexperience), up against the big guns (Mullins/Elliot), many previous winners, horses who were older and more experienced.

In fact the 2nd in that race sold a couple of weeks later for 150k, which isn't a budget we can compete with! The 3rd cost £80k, the 4th cost £175k. Madness! And who knows, he may turn out better than some of those, again, a game for the dreamers! :)

He's back in work now and will be out in November I suspect. We will likely run him in one or two bumpers to get him up to speed, before turning to Novice hurdles and seeing where we are at with him. The bumpers will be used for experience but he'll be there to win if good enough, for all I suspect he'll come on leap and bounds fitness wise for his debut effort and maybe even his second start.

He will be a classic 'anything he does over hurdles is a bonus' type I suspect and we may have to go slowly slowly with him initially, but he'll tell us. An exciting prospect.

We have just 5% left in him, mostly members of our other two syndicates who fancied a piece and a few newbies who got excited about our syndicates via social media etc.

I think they saw how much fun we have at race days, stable visits and other social events. Who can blame them! :)

Obviously this model is different to #1 above - you will own a % of his flesh and blood, whereas with Proud Mari/Kaleb, we are just leasing them (for as long as they continue to race), but as with both you get your % of prize money etc. But for some, they prefer a small part of the horse to be theirs.

If that's you, you can find out more about Give Me A Boom HERE >>>

Either of those syndicates will cheer up your winter (and mine). In what could be a challenging time more generally, we should at least have something to cheer and to look forward to. At least us jumps fans always have the winter game to make us smile.

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We do like to have a good time and you can get a flavour of how we do things below...

-A day out as an RTPS Owner: Watch HERE >>>

-Our Stable Open Day: Watch HERE >>>

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Some sad news...

This game is tough at times and sadly it's not all smiles with The Plumber. 

Aged only five and having shown so much promise for us with two decent 2nds, we've now had to retire him from racing. :(

I'm still not sure what happened but on his last race at Stratford a few weeks back he damaged both tendons in his front legs. Maybe he found the ground too quick or patchy. There was a chance we could have got him back after a years rest, but the risk of him hurting himself further when back training/racing was too high to contemplate, and it wasn't fair on his owners either.

Its been a right kick in the guts and I'm still a bit miserable about it, but he's still alive, will recover well enough to be ridden in future, and now it's our job to find him a new home. He'll be a fun horse for someone and should have many happy years ahead of him. Sadly those years won't including making all over fences in our colours.

80% of racehorses get some sort of injury during their careers and I suppose it's stats like that which make me nervous about buying horses for big big money - you just never know sadly, and spending big is no guarantee of future success of course.

I am in the process of buying a replacement for The Plumber, a French import who is being vetted tomorrow. Hopefully that goes to plan and he'll be in Amy's yard settling in by early September. His name is JustMoi.

He's a 3YO who's raced twice, jumps and travels well. The plan is to target the new 3YO hurdles series this winter. I think he wants soft ground and hopefully he proves another shrewd purchase and we can have some fun with him. (only £10k all in, as was The Plumber, and he was already starting to make that look very cheap). Time will tell!

He will be fit enough to win on debut (he's race fit now, in France, and has been in full training), but of course it may take him a few weeks to acclimatise to the UK. I think he needs soft and possibly 2m4f in time, but we shall find out! That's half the fun.

There may well be some spaces in him soon, I'm just awaiting to see how many of The Plumber's gang wish to carry on, and of course they get first refusal. The plan is to start his Syndicate year from 1st October. (that's when you'd start paying x 12 months, again only a 1 year commitment)

So, we will have four horses to go to war with this winter and it promises to be an exciting time. I'll try and keep you updated on all of them as best I can, with their owners taking priority of course.

Don't miss out...

You can find out more about RTPS #1 (Proud Mari/Kaleb) HERE >>>

And #2 (Give Me A Boom) HERE >>>

With any luck a few of you reading this will end up joining the RTP Syndicate family and enjoy the rollercoaster ride in the coming months and years. There's nothing better.

This is your chance to join us on he inside and have more fun than you thought possible, with a great bunch of people. Don't miss out! :)

As always, thanks for reading,

All the best,

Josh