David Loder back Training @ Bishops Castle, Shropshire?
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Bit more for you, he's definitely training point to pointers at the moment, I found this article from March this year:
"For a number of years the Hunter Chasers and Point-to-Pointers Annual used to carry a quote from Ian Balding to the effect that, for all of his great endeavours and big days as a top-notch Flat trainer with the likes of Mill Reef, Lochsong and Selkirk, nothing in racing had given him greater pleasure than riding in Point-to-Points.
Time will tell whether training runners between the flags proves more fun for David Loder than presiding over the careers of Desert Prince, Lujain and (initially) Dubai Destination to name just three, but the former Newmarket handler certainly cut the look of a relaxed and happy man on greeting in Midnight Haze, winner for him of the opening division of the WMAC Novice Riders contest under Liz Reynolds.
Fifteenth in the 2012 Grand National when firmly in the handicapper's grip, and now in his second stint of Pointing having started out in that sphere for owner-breeder Phillip Dando seven years ago, Midnight Haze runs in the colours of Liz's mother Charlotte, having been picked up by the family at last May's Doncaster Sales.
"It's great to get my first winner over jumps with just the third runner, and it's great to see Midnight Haze back in form", advised Loder. "He had been with Kim Bailey and hadn't run up much form in the last two years, but maybe he likes the Shropshire air".
Specifically, that's the air of the small South Shropshire market town of Bishops Castle, in which Loder, who retired from full-time Rules training in late-2005 on health grounds, resides with wife and fellow bloodstock agent Angela "in the mother-in-law's old place". Angela's mother, Pam Sykes, needs no introduction to North West Area Pointing aficionados in particular, having enjoyed appreciable hunt racing success in the locality with horses such as Silverdalesureshot up until the mid-2000s."
"For a number of years the Hunter Chasers and Point-to-Pointers Annual used to carry a quote from Ian Balding to the effect that, for all of his great endeavours and big days as a top-notch Flat trainer with the likes of Mill Reef, Lochsong and Selkirk, nothing in racing had given him greater pleasure than riding in Point-to-Points.
Time will tell whether training runners between the flags proves more fun for David Loder than presiding over the careers of Desert Prince, Lujain and (initially) Dubai Destination to name just three, but the former Newmarket handler certainly cut the look of a relaxed and happy man on greeting in Midnight Haze, winner for him of the opening division of the WMAC Novice Riders contest under Liz Reynolds.
Fifteenth in the 2012 Grand National when firmly in the handicapper's grip, and now in his second stint of Pointing having started out in that sphere for owner-breeder Phillip Dando seven years ago, Midnight Haze runs in the colours of Liz's mother Charlotte, having been picked up by the family at last May's Doncaster Sales.
"It's great to get my first winner over jumps with just the third runner, and it's great to see Midnight Haze back in form", advised Loder. "He had been with Kim Bailey and hadn't run up much form in the last two years, but maybe he likes the Shropshire air".
Specifically, that's the air of the small South Shropshire market town of Bishops Castle, in which Loder, who retired from full-time Rules training in late-2005 on health grounds, resides with wife and fellow bloodstock agent Angela "in the mother-in-law's old place". Angela's mother, Pam Sykes, needs no introduction to North West Area Pointing aficionados in particular, having enjoyed appreciable hunt racing success in the locality with horses such as Silverdalesureshot up until the mid-2000s."
