Our 7 year journey with L’ Ami Serge ended in tragedy today. He was a horse who held a special place in lots of people’s hearts and especially ours. He won the French Champion Hurdle, Aintree Hurdle and took us to lots of places - all days that we will never forget. RIP L’Ami💚💚
Team Double Green are announcing the retirement of BRISTOL DE MAI. It has been a privilege to own him. Bristol has been a legend and retires 100% sound & happy. Our thanks to Nigel, Sparky, Daryl & all at Grange Farm. It has been a wonderful journey that he has taken us all on!
It is with great sadness that we lost our doublegreen stalwart and hero Top Notch today. He ruptured his stomach & surgery failed. He was the sweetest kindest horse with the biggest heart - since 2014 he won 14 races & participated in 5 Chelt Festivals so many memories RIP Notchy
We have decided the time has come to retire our Double Green flag bearer Sceau Royal 54 career runs winning 17 times - he has joined a family in Exmoor where he will be Show Jumping and embarking upon a ROR programme thanks Sceau & Alan King for the wonderful memories
Bristol sound and well after his reappearance in the Betfair Chase. The ground wasn’t quite to his liking but the most important thing is that he’s ok and he’ll be back! Thank you for the support and messages! 💚
We have decided to retire our Cheltenham Festival wining mare Concertista. She has been an absolute DoubleGreen stalwart and has earned a happy retirement - she will be a top class NH broodmare.
#Concertista
#DoubleGreen
Unfortunately Fusil bled this afternoon at Aintree and Daryl did the right thing! Thankfully he seems ok back at the stables, fingers crossed he makes a good recovery. Thank you for all the messages.
#FusilRaffles
Thank you everyone for all your kind messages they are really appreciated by us all at
#DoubleGreen
and so touching. It has been so difficult for everyone involved with L’Ami. RIP 💚💚
We have decided to retire Call Me Lord he is fit and well but age has caught up with him. He has been a legend and raced so consistently throughout his career for Double Green. Very grateful to all at
@sevenbarrows
🐎👏🏼💚 💚
#DoubleGreen
Post race, happy to report both Bristol De Mai (PU) and Class Conti (15th) both fine. Congratulations to
@rachaelblackmor
and all connections! The Irish dominance continues with the first five home all trained in Ireland 🇮🇪
#GrandNational
#DoubleGreen
Terrefort who unfortunately lost his left eye due to a rare form of eye cancer has recovered well and is soon going back into training at Seven Barrows 💚💚
#DoubleGreen
Happy Retirement to Terrefort chilling today in his rug! A great Double Green stalwart winning the Scilly Isles (Grade1) & the Mildmay (Grade 1) Trained by
@sevenbarrows
, Great memories 💚💚
#Terrefort
#DoubleGreen
So sad 😢 to lose Class Conti today. A great Double Green stalwart and will be a huge loss not only for us but all the team who have looked after him so well at trainer Willie Mullins’
#ClassConti
#DoubleGreen
There are no longer any “freebies” in Ireland the best horse wins - best bred, best bought, best trained, best placed simple! Willie’s secret sauce is he doesn’t rush his horses he gives them plenty of time. He also lets the horses do the talking 😉
#Footpad
#Concertista
Very, very sad to report that we lost Une Artiste last night when she faced complications delivering her 7th foal.
Une Artiste was a legend for DoubleGreen winning the Fred Winter and has been a wonderful broodmare and of course mother of Intense Raffles, here she is pictured
Thank you for all your messages regarding
@Dazjacob10
, he is in hospital and comfortable. He has unfortunately broken his hip bone, we all wish him a speedy recovery and look forward to seeing him back in DoubleGreen soon! 🙏🏼
Happy to report that
@Dazjacob
has been passed fit to ride again. Daryl has been our retained
#DoubleGreen
jockey for 8 years now & is an important part of the team. He has had to dig deep and work so hard to get back. Looking forward to seeing him back in the winners enclosure!
We have been overwhelmed by the lovely messages received regarding Bristol’s retirement. A big thank you from Team Double Green and of course Bristol. He is winding down and enjoying retirement at Grange Farm! 🥕🥕
#BristolDeMai
#DoubleGreen
Intense Raffles jumps brilliantly and battles bravely up the run in to win the Irish Grand National under a brilliant ride from JJ Slevin. A fantastic training performance by Thomas Gibney and his team! 🏆🇮🇪
#DoubleGreen
#IntenseRaffles
Bristol all good this morning full of beans! Yesterday a speed track coupled with the ground meant it wasn’t to be - he will be back for Haydock Betfair Chase 🤞Summer holidays for him now 😎🏖
@GBRacing
@itvracing
@RacingTV
#Bristol
#DoubleGreen
Brilliant ride as Bryony Frost gets off the mark with her first Double Green winner in France, since becoming our retained jockey, with our homebred Kel Raffles
#DoubleGreen
#Winner
No complaints as to how any of our 3 ran today. However, we are lacking in the Lady Luck department. Monte Cristo was hampered by a fallen horse - Sceau would have been there or thereabouts but for nearly being brought down. All fine after their races 🙏🏼
#CheltenhamFestival
A wonderful consolation for Jasmine Du Vaux to win the Champion Bumper in great style and bring up Willie’s 100th Cheltenham Festival winner. Happy to report El Fabiolo is also sound and well after his bad mistake which cost him in the Champion Chase. He’ll be back!
🥇 Jasmin De Vaux strikes under 𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙈𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙨, to bring up the historic landmark 100th Cheltenham Festival victory for his dad, the genius that is
@WillieMullinsNH
!
💚 It's Cheltenham glory for
@simon_munir
and the Double Green team!
So important that Racing continues - the show must go on! We have to be grateful that at least we have something to watch on TV for the time being. We can worry about prize money and hospitality when we return to normal times.
#DoubleGreen
What a champ! Zarak The Brave enjoying a carrot at evening stables yesterday after a very brave run at Galway on Thursday to win the prestigious Galway Hurdle! 🇮🇪🏆🥇🧿
#ZarakTheBrave
#DoubleGreen
Monday morning joy! A next generation Raffles homebred foal born this morning out of our mare Raffles Face by Saint des Saints 🐎
#TheFuture
#Horses
#DoubleGreen
Sceau Royal gives us a poignant winner as he lands the Betfair Game Spirit Chase (Grade 2) at Newbury under
@Dazjacob10
for trainer Alan King.
#DoubleGreen
Delighted to report that Wholestone is fine after his operation. He had a nasty cut on his coronary band and will unfortunately miss the rest of the season. He is happy, being well looked after and is making good progress.
#Wholestone
#DoubleGreen
Without wishing to overcomplicate things, I have always found it more gracious for Racehorse Trainers not to criticise or blame Jockeys in public. The best Trainers take the blame even when it is not their fault or have a quiet word in private.
Happy to report Wholestone is now allowed out post operation as part of his rehabilitation. Here he is enjoying some time in the sun with a good old roll! 🐎
#HappyHorse
#Wholestone
#DoubleGreen
Our exciting 4yo James Du Berlais en route to Willie Mullins after a very successful stint with trainer Robert Collet in France with form figures of 2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2. We are looking forward to seeing what he can achieve this side of the channel.
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