Harry Fry Stable Tour & Horses To Follow (2022/23)

18/04/2024
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Harry Fry Horses In Training
Steve Mullington
By Steve Mullington

Set in the Dorset countryside, Higher Crockermoor is home to the business that is Harry Fry Racing. 

Over the course of the last few years, Harry and his wife Ciara have produced over 350 winners and won over £3 million in prize money.

Grade 1 victories have been achieved at Cheltenham, Aintree and Punchestown and their stable continues to go from strength to strength.

Here are five Fry-trained horses to follow for the 2022/23 season if you are planning to look at betting on horse races online:

Ask Me Early

Harry Fry considers this eight-year-old as a “National” type.

Whether that turns out to be one of the provincial Nationals or the Aintree spectacular itself, remains to be seen but they do appear to have a decent stayer on their hands.

A schooling fall at home unfortunately ruled the grey out of last season’s Welsh Grand National.

Love Envoi 

Sporting the colours of the Noel Fehily Racing Syndicate Love Envoi beat an extremely strong field with something to spare in the Ryanair Mares’ Novice Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival last March.

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She then ended her superb first season over hurdles with an excellent second place in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Novice Hurdle Championship Final at Fairyhouse in April.

The logical target for her this season is the Mares’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival and the Fry team will probably work back from that date with her entries and programme of work.

Metier

After winning his first three races, including the Tolworth Hurdle, Harry Fry expected Metier to climb the ladder even further but those plans never quite materialised.

Apparently a larynx issue explained his downturn in form but he bounced back in fine style last season when taking the valuable Sovereign Handicap Hurdle at the Lingfield Winter Festival.

Look out for Metier this season when the going is soft or heavier.

Might I

Fry hopes he can further train Might I into a Graded-level staying hurdler.

The 3m handicap hurdle at Haydock on Betfair Chase day will be his first target of the season and there is every reason to believe he will arrive there in fine fettle. 

Might I was runner-up in a Grade 1 last season to Constitution Hill and can go onto bigger and better things you would like to believe.

Several of Harry Fry’s horses feature in our Cheltenham betting odds markets.

Ree Okka

A commanding winner of his only point-to-point in Ireland, Ree Okka is very much on an upward curve with the Fry’s.

Bypassing the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, Fry said he wanted to save his young horse for his chasing future.

It will be interesting to see where he runs this season and he’ll be a horse to have on your side.

The early indications are that Fry could send Ree Okka, Metier, Dubrovnik Harry and Boothill down the novice chase route this season.

*Credit for all of the photos in this article belongs to AP Photo*

 

FIRST PUBLISHED: 17th October 2022

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Steve Mullington
Steve Mullington

Steven is a sports and horse racing enthusiast and is a member of the Horseracing Writers and Photographers Association (HWPA) in the United Kingdom.

He is a regular visitor to Paris Longchamp for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and a lifelong fan of the Aintree Grand National, a subject he writes about 52 weeks of the year. Last year he reached the impressive milestone of attending the last 30 renewals of the Grand National.