Changes to the recruitment team at Ditcheat, but David Ord says any diamonds unearthed this summer remain likely to be bound for Seven Barrows.
It’s been a week when equine recruitment has been in the spotlight.
Well, that of the Paul Nicholls team, with news that his daughter Megan is to take a more prominent role in trying to source the fresh talent aimed at getting the Ditcheat team moving in the right direction again.
It’s not as though his owners haven’t been digging deep, even away from the Chris Giles dispersal sale where the wagons were circled and everything that they wanted back at base camp returned there, whatever the price.
But a stuttering start to 2025, a Cheltenham Festival team that’s as threadbare as it’s ever been, means the former champion trainer is ready to make a change. Tom Malone will no longer be the go-to man when it comes to scouring France, Ireland and the UK looking for the next diamond within myriad rocks.
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