Michael Bell has made a bright start to his season and with 20 winners from 69 runners and a strike rate of 29%, he can quite rightly be delighted with the efforts from his team at Fitzroy House in Newmarket.
Bell has had had 7 winners from 22 runners in the past 14 days and that includes a Group 3 win from the ex-Jessica Harrington-trained Yashin and can harbour thoughts of the two-year-old Spicy Marg joining his team at Royal Ascot after an impressive debut success at Newmarket’s Guineas Festival on Sunday.
“We’ve had the best start I have had in 35 years statistically and it is very encouraging for the rest of the season,” Bell said. “We seem to have a better squad of older horses, and they are the ones that rack up the scores on the doors.
“Equally, there seems to be a bit of quality about in the two-year-old department. Whilst we are relatively low in numbers compared to the big players and relatively low on huge investors, we seem to be making a good fist of it.”
Michael kindly talked to Tony Elves of attheraces.com to give him the lowdown on his in-form team.
