My trainer, Tim Etherington, wants to keep me in tip-top condition for my next outing which looks like being sometime the week after next.

I can't wait to get back on the track and show him what I can do. He's had a quiet word in my ear and the plan is to run me in a couple more races before the end of this season.

So there won't be much time for me to put my hooves up.

If I get three runs in this year than I'll qualify for Handicap races next season and those are races where most of us horses do our running.

A few of my stablemates here at Wold House keep giving me good advice when we are out cantering.

We all get on well together and were disappointed that Lydia's Look, whose already won a couple of times this season, couldn't quite make the frame at Pontefract yesterday.

She's a three-year-old - a year older than me - and was racing in the Betabet Fillies Handicap.

It is quite a stiff finish at Ponty and we heard that she was well in the running until she got hampered two furlongs from home and finished seventh, about three lengths behind the winner.

She said that she will be telling me all about it later today after she's had a rest. Whatever she says I'm sure it will be good advice as I'm keen to learn and do well in this game.

Updated: 10:46 Friday, September 21, 2001