John’s Blog

The book got off to a perfect start with 2 winners on the board on Friday. The first was an odds on 2/5 shot in a two runner race at Newton Abbot, but then later on that card a 2/1-13/8 winner emerged from the Charlie Longsdon interview. If you backed that one, it probably paid the cost of you book order!!

The new edition of Jumping Prospects Trainer Comments book will now be published on Tuesday 19th September. The original publication date was due to be Wednesday  13th September, but due to pressure of working longer hours writing the book has…

The 2017 Stable Tour is almost complete. I have been on the road in August and called at 16 Stables My plan is to complete 2 more visits in the next couple of weeks. Work on the new book has…

The new edition of JUMPING PROSPECTS CHELTENHAM CONTENDERS BOOK 2017 continues to come together. Hopefully my scheduled publication date of March 1st will be met, had a setback last week with a flu bug striking causing me to miss a…

The Jumping Prospects Cheltenham Preview Night will be at the OLD RAILWAY CLUB, Melling Road, Aintree, Liverpool. Date: Monday 6th March 2017 @ 745pm Admission: £10 on the night. Panel: Charlie Longsdon, Ben Pauling, Andy Holding, John Morris The 2017…

There are winners from the book that give me great pleasure for different reasons. On Saturday at Wetherby one of the featured stables in this years book and in many other previous editions of Jumping Prospects gave its connections the…

The Jumping Prospects autumn trainer interview book reached the 40 winner mark on Friday afternoon when Charbel jumped superbly to land the valuable Beginners’ Chase over two miles at Uttoxeter. Kim’ Bailey’s string have gone through a relatively quite autumn…

The recent dry spell played havoc with the ground condition on many jumps racecourses. They had the word ‘firm’ in the going descriptions, hence the small fields on view. Thankfully runners from the Jumping Prospects 2016 Trainer Interview book have already…