Bradley Gibbs rode and educated Dawnie Boy, the winner of the situations (stage two) on the Wheatland point-to-point at Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire yesterday (4 December). Bradley described the eight-year-old owned by Julian Sherriff as “the love of my life”.
“He was entered to run within the novice riders with a younger lad on him, however when the horse I used to be meant to be driving on this race had a hiccup mid-week, I made a decision to run Dawnie Boy on this race as a substitute,” defined Bradley, who received the 14-runner race by three and a half lengths. “However after I was down at first with him I used to be pondering why on earth I used to be operating him in such a aggressive race as I believed he would possibly want a run previous to scoring any kind of end result.”
Dawnie Boy has now received three of his 4 British pointing begins, however issues haven‘t been plain crusing.
“I’ve had him for 3 or 4 years and have solely run him 4 instances,” mentioned Bradley. “He was X-rayed after which operated on for arthritis in his knees, however as he was coming spherical from the operation, he freaked out and made a multitude of himself – together with chipping a bone in one among his knees.
“I’ve all the time thought a whole lot of him and taking my time has been price it.”
Bradley defined it’s a case of managing Dawnie Boy.
“We have now modified a whole lot of issues with him, for instance he goes on a Theraplate, which is a vibrating mat, for 30-40 minutes every day.”
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