Surprisingly busy Saturday.

The yard is usually fairly quiet for Saturday breakfast at this time of year but today it was buzzing. Several regulars made their first visits for a few weeks, some of the new syndicate were there to view their horse and others were eyeing up prospects for the future.

Malcolm with the new syndicate purchase "Cockney Seagull".

A few of the National Hunt horses were just back in after their summer holidays.

Itoldyou is back.

And so is Due South.

Kim was there to see Kafeel and he confirmed that the plan, all going well, was to aim for a return to San Moritz in the spring.

Very different conditions await Kafeel in the spring.

Down on the track prospective buyers viewed one of Linda's new purchases from Ireland.

Is this the one for us?