IT was more heartbreak for Derrylin trainer David Christie at the Cheltenham Festival last week as his much-fancied runner Ferns Lock ruined his chances before a fence had even been jumped. Christie had two runners – Ferns Lock and Ramilles – in last Friday’s St James’s Place Festival Challenge Cup Open Hunters’ Chase, with stable star Ferns Lock a 100/30 second favourite. But […]
David Christie fancies his chances at Cheltenham Races
DERRYLIN trainer David Christie will have three horses running in one race at the Cheltenham Festival next week as he bids to break his duck at the famous meeting. Ferns Lock, Vaucelet and Ramilles will all line up in the St James’s Place Festival Challenge Cup Open Hunters’ Chase next Friday, March 15. Christie saw Winged Leader edged out […]
Christie in the money as National Hunt season starts
DERRYLIN trainer David Christie is already riding high despite horse racing’s National Hunt season in the UK only officially starting this weekend. The start of the winter National Hunt season in the UK traditionally comes after last Saturday’s Champions Day at Ascot, which serves as the finale to the British Flat racing season. However, Christie has been quietly […]
Derrylin’s Christie hoping for big win at Aintree
Winged Leader will represent the Fermanagh stable at the famous racecourse in Liverpool when he lines up tomorrow, over Grand National fences.
Cheltenham win would be perfect tonic for Christie
A FIRST win at Cheltenham for David Christie next week will mean even more to the local horse trainer as he has been struggling with ill health recently. A mystery virus first laid him low at the South West Acute Hospital, before matters took a turn for the worse and he contracted meningitis followed by […]
Racehorse trainer happy to stay under the radar
FOR a man who has trained more than 350 winners, it’s a surprise that David Christie is not better known in a horse racing-mad county like Fermanagh. The trainer from Derrylin is well respected in National Hunt horse racing circles throughout Ireland and the UK, and last May he completed a successful raid to Stratford by claiming the big […]