Sean Bowen blog: ‘I do think he’s ready for this step up in grade’

In the latest Sean Bowen blog with Coral, the Leading jockey looks forward to this weekend’s action and his two rides at Haydock on Saturday.

Sean Bowen blog

Even though we’ve lost a couple of meetings to the weather in recent days, it has been great to be back on the racecourse. It was a fantastic feeling to ride my first winner back on Pickanumber at Catterick on Monday, and thankfully I didn’t have to wait too long for my second with Clonakilty getting his head in front at Lingfield the following day.

I’ve been taking it easy this week and just trying to allow my body to get used to being back in the saddle, and thankfully the knee has responded really well. I’ll just have another quiet couple of days over the weekend, and then I’ll be kicking on and going flat out from Monday I’d say.

It’s so tight at the top of the championship, so I’m sure it will be a really exciting conclusion to the season. As I’ve said before, it’s just got to be a numbers game for me now, so I’ll have my head down and be looking to ride as many winners as I can between now and the end of the season. I get on really well with Harry, and he’s an excellent jockey, so I know I’ll have to be at the very top of my game if I’m going to get the better of him.

I have two nice rides at Haydock on Saturday before a day off on Sunday, so it would be lovely to get at least one winner this weekend!

Butch – 14:40 Haydock 

This looks the perfect race for Butch because I think he’ll absolutely relish these conditions. He stayed every yard of the trip over at Cheltenham last time over three miles, and he appeared to have no issues with the heavy ground that day either, so I think a slog around Haydock in testing conditions will suit him just fine.