Lucinda Russell Stable Tour & Horses To Follow (2022/23)

18/04/2024
4 min. read
Lucinda Russell horses to follow
Steve Mullington
By Steve Mullington

Scottish trainer Lucinda Russell trains in the beautiful Kinross countryside half an hour north of Edinburgh with her partner Peter Scudamore. Together they have evolved into the most successful racing yard in the Scottish jump racing.

At this juncture in time, Lucinda has trained over seven hundred winners including several graded races, and winners at the Cheltenham and Aintree Festivals.

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Her biggest achievement thus far was training One For Arthur to win the Grand National in 2017. Here are five horses I believe you should be following from the Lucinda Russell stable for the 2022/23 season.

Ahoy Senor

The Cheltenham Gold Cup became an even more realistic port of call for “Lu and Scu” back in April after Ahoy Senor turned around his Cheltenham form with Bravemansgame and L'Homme Presse, and landed the Mildmay Novices' Chase at Aintree.

The former Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury will probably be the next logical step for the gutsy seven-year-old on his journey to Prestbury Park.

You can check out Ahoy Senor’s latest Cheltenham betting odds here.

Corach Rambler

Corach Rambler is on the Grand National antepost radar of many a pundit, including myself, and I instantly formed that opinion when I saw him return into the winner’s enclosure after taking a 3m Novice Chase at Aintree on Old Roan Day 2021.

He subsequently went on to earn Derek Fox the “Ride Of The Season” after Fox persevered with him for the entire duration of the Ultima which he eventually won going away up the hill.

Russell will definitely be targeting him at the big staying chases this season and with any luck he’ll take the biggest one of them all next April.

Corrigeen Rock

A former Irish point winner, the Russell team believe Corrigeen Rock is capable of doing extremely well over fences this season and he duly won his first handicap at Kelso recently after fluffing his lines first time up at Perth.

With the five-year-old likely to get three miles, the options are limitless for this son of Westerner and he’s going to be a popular pick with punters who are betting on horse races online with us.

Haute Estime

The mare Haute Estime didn’t really get the rub of the green on her chase debut at Kelso in early October, slipping at one point and then stumbling two from home.

If she can iron out those little blemishes then she looks like a decent prospect going forward.

She finished third at 100-1 in a Grade 1 contest at Aintree last April so she is clearly a talented horse that just needs to be slowly nurtured along.

Your Own Story

Your Own Story is out of Dylan Thomas, a bloodline Russell regularly homes in on.

Winner of two Irish points, he won over hurdles at Carlisle in March and finished well in fifth place on his handicap debut at Ayr's Scottish National meeting.

This season he will be tackling the novice handicaps, and those contests that are run on galloping tracks over three miles will be there for the taking.

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

 

FIRST PUBLISHED: 24th October 2022

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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.