A mixed day on Tuesday at Les Baux, overshadowed completely of course by the news from New Zealand. The downside in the afternoon was Rosko failing to take his last chance to convince Marion it was worth taking him to Grosbois for a fourth attempt to qualify. He simply becomes uncontrollable and actually dangerous when asked for a serious effort at the trot, so he must go 'elsewhere'. The upside was in the morning when I was able to see the 3 generations of Hue taking 3 generations of horse (Orlando, Porto and Quitus) to work on the cinder straight line that Marion has laid down in a nearby forest. A great sight line astern on the road to the forest - all 3 chestnuts (the horses that is!) In the pics Bernard is always leading with Quitus, Marion is in the middle with Orlando and David behind with Porto. Quitus races at Enghien on Monday 28 and Porto should re-enter at Bernay on May 11 in an Apprentis Professionnel race with David driving and thereby getting 25 meters advance. And Orlando... still completely sound as far as we can see... needs about a month more work. No hurry!
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