Venetia Williams Stable Tour & Horses To Follow (2022/23)

18/04/2024
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Venetia Williams horses in training
Steve Mullington
By Steve Mullington

Surrounded by beautiful countryside near Ross on Wye, Aramstone Stables is where Venetia Williams works her magic every year with the horses in her care. 

Throughout her career, Venetia has won many significant races but none more so than in 2009 when she trained Mon Mome to his Grand National triumph.

Here are five Williams trained horses that we feel you should be following in the 2022/23 National Hunt season:

Royale Pagaille

Royale Pagaille has become a high-class staying chaser in the last couple of seasons and was thought good enough to run in last year’s Gold Cup again where he finished fifth.

Conditions however were not really testing enough for him, but if the Gold Cup 2023 became a testing affair he’d be right in there with a fighting chance.

In the going he revels in, Royale Pagaille confirmed himself a top chaser when he came home a game winner of the Peter Marsh Chase under top weight for the second year at Haydock last season.

His runner-up finish in the Denman Chase at Newbury was a solid enough effort but further underlined that he is at his best with some juice underfoot.

Funambule Sivola

Funambule Sivola made most of the running to win the Game Spirit Chase last term and looks like being another star for the stable.

The seven-year-old was last seen being pulled up in the Melling Chase at Aintree but he can be forgiven that run after having a testing season.

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He is a very small horse but a very intelligent jumper of his fences and will be very popular this year in the online horse racing betting markets.

L’Homme Presse 

A winner of five of his six starts last season, L’Homme Presse is going to be yet another popular pick with Venetia Williams fans this coming season.

L’Homme Presse was an impressive winner of the Grade One Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase under Charlie Deutsch at the Cheltenham Festival and is sure to have some big targets again this season.

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Feature events such as the former Hennessey Gold Cup and the King George VI Chase are sure to be on Williams’ radar.

Fontaine Collonges

The exciting mare Fontaine Collonges made it three wins out of five starts as she continued her upward curve when she landed the Winter Million EBF Mares' Novices' Handicap Chase at Lingfield Park.

She was put away thereafter and is sure to be competing for the top prizes again in the forthcoming National Hunt Season. If you fancy her for Prestbury Park in March, you can bet on Cheltenham here.

Commodore 

The ten-year-old grey Commodore may be a veteran now but he should once again be a leading player in some of the big staying handicaps this campaign.

His jumping in last year’s Grade 2 Betfair Handicap Chase at Cheltenham was a joy to behold and any repeat of that performance will see him dominating this particular division.

*Credit for all of the photos in this article belongs to AP Photo*

 

FIRST PUBLISHED: 10th October 2022

By Steve Mullington

Steve Mullington

Steven is a sports and horse racing enthusiast and is a member of the Horseracing Writers and Photographers Association (HWPA) in the United Kingdom.

He is a regular visitor to Paris Longchamp for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and a lifelong fan of the Aintree Grand National, a subject he writes about 52 weeks of the year. Last year he reached the impressive milestone of attending the last 30 renewals of the Grand National.

Steven graduated from the University Of Lancaster in 1996 with a B.A (Hons) in Urban Policy & Race Relations (major) with Contemporary Religions & Belief Systems (minor) and still wonders if any of these help him find the winners?

He writes for a number of websites and online publications and you can sometimes hear him at the weekend discussing racing on a number of local radio stations. 

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