A full week

This weather keeps getting better and better. Lovely dawns (such as this one on Tuesday) give way to wonderfully hot sunny days with not a cloud in the sky. This week would be special even in the middle of summer, but coming as it does once we are well ensconced in autumn, it is very special indeed. The one drawback is that I am currently extremely busy indeed, hence my not having yet found time to say anything about a really pleasant trip to Warwick yesterday which was marred only by the interference which Ethics Girl copped which meant that she failed to finish in the first three, interference which neither she nor her jockey (Tom Queally, who gave her a lovely ride) deserved. I took some great photographs yesterday but haven't yet downloaded them. I might have been going to Fontwell today, but I fought shy of sending Dr Darcey out over jumps on what had to be quite fast ground. However, while ground will inevitably be on the fast side in such good weather, William Kennedy rode there today and tells me that the track is actually in tremendous condition, so we should be safe sending Frankie/Douchkirk (pictured nine days ago, before the Indian summer had really settled in to dry out the field again) down there to contest the bumper - I'm never as worried running horses in flat races on dry ground as I am doing so in jumps races. It should be another lovely day, so let's hope for a good trip.