Tom Lacey’s season has been nudging along quite steadily with 14 winners from only 96 runners but as the winter ground takes a hold the Cottage Fields trainer will be hoping to step up on his fortunes in the next few months.
Operation Manna has been one of the revelations of the season with three victories under his belt and a success that suggested there was more to come on his latest start at Sandown recently and could return to the Esher venue for another valuable handicap hurdle in February.
Lacey has high hopes that Big Blue Moon will excel when sent chasing shortly and, equally, is expecting to see further improvement from Highstakesplayer when he returns from injury after the turn of the year.
There are high expectations that the 205,000gns purchase Piper Park can excel in the bumper division and there are plenty of lesser lights that are expected to shine in the coming months.
Tom kindly talked to Tony Elves of attheraces.com about the horse in his Herefordshire base.
