Chris Bealby

Thomas Patrick got off the mark athe South Notts Easter Monday Meeting at Thorpe Lodge. He won by a distance , giving a faultless display in the fastest time of the day ! Sadly though it was a walkover ! It is a great shame that there were so few […]

A miserable damp Sunday and with no point to pointers entered Tommy and I decided to spend an hour or two honing our cricket skills, for the forthcoming season. I have put a bit of netting up in an old barn that amongst other things has housed cattle, pigs, sheep […]

After a very successful day at Thorpe four weeks ago , we took L’Eldorado and Thomas Patrick to the Cottesmore meeting at a cold and blustery Garthorpe on Sunday. L’Eldorado started as odds on favourite for the 9 year old and over Club race, he traveled and jumped well for […]

Antonia and I attended a fascinating talk on performance and sports psychology last night in Lincoln, given by Internationally renowned expert Charlie Unwin. There was a lot to absorb in just over an hour and a half but there were two main ideas that I came away with and hope […]

Tommy was fortunate enough to have some batting coaching today with Leicestershire at their Grace Road indoor net facility. It was the first time that either Tommy or I had seen the amazing Bola “virtual” bowling machine (Trueman) in action.  The TrueMan displays a high-contrast LED animation of a bowler […]

On a cold, damp and generally uninspiring day, Tommy and I went to Welford Road to watch the 3pm Aviva Premiership clash between Leicester Tigers and Gloucester Rugby. It was an exciting game and Tigers took the lead with a well worked try from number 8 Luke Hamilton , who […]

Away from racing for an hour or two and Tommy Bealby was very fortunate to have a Wicket Keeping masterclass this evening with former Sri Lankan Keeper Prasanna Jayawardene at the Mark Fell Cricket Centre in Grantham (see 360 photo below) .  Jayawardene played in 58 tests for Sri Lanka, taking […]

Web Design Having just been on two media design courses, WordPress and Photoshop, I decided to try and put into practice my so called, new found technical skills and re-vamp the www.northlodgeracing.co.uk website. Well, this is the result. There are still a few tweaks that need to be done and […]

L’Eldorado records 9th career Victory L’Eldorado, or “Bunny” as he is known to his friends ran a magnificent race on his seasonal debut at Thorpe Lodge on Sunday. Given a fine and intelligent ride by Tom Chatfeild-Roberts he settled well, just behind the leader Teeton Power before sweeping into the […]