ELEGANT OLIVE 
7 year old brown mare - by Alflora, out of Strong Cloth
Elegant Olive is from a good jumping family, which has included winning mares, and has been placed in two of her three races, all of which have been National Hunt Flat Races (as at mid-March).
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CAREER SO FAR
Jul10: Came back for some time off to run her best hurdle race yet at Stratford, finishing third. The trip was a little shorter than preferred. She was one of two that kicked on approaching the final bend, and it did look at that time as if they would be fighting out the finish, but perhaps having not had a recent race caught up with her. Hadden Frost was riding, and he expressed plenty of enthusiasm for her prospects.
Mar10: Having run at Huntingdon in January, and run well despite needing the race and getting a rough deal at the start (but highlighted in the Racing Post Weekender as one to note from the race), Elegant Olive then found the weather interfering with Plan A, Plan B and so on until about Plan M. She eventually did get into a mares' handicap hurdle on 1st March at Plumpton. So far, so good, and the obligatory inspection was survived, but jockey Michael Murphy reported that she could not handle the quagmire at all. So, for Olive, we want a spell of no more than light rain more or less now!
Oct 2009: She returned form her summer break with a very satisfactory run, finishing eighth at Towcester in a two mile hurdle. She would have needed the race to bring her to spot on, 110% (sic) fitness, and a mistake three out cost Olive at least the margin that she was behin the fifth, and might have worried the fourth. Jockey Mark Grant was happy with her, and reported that she is ready now to try the distances that she was bred for.
May 2009: Olive has run four times to date, all in National Hunt Flat Races (usually referred to as Bumpers for convenience). She was third on the first two occasions, showing a bit of inexperience on her debut at Hereford, which cost her an even better result, and then running really well in a slightly stronger race at Huntingdon. After that, she went back to Huntingdon over Christmas, and again ran well, having been more aggressively ridden, but three runs in quick succession perhaps proved too much for a young horse. After a break, Olive had her final bumper run at Cheltenham, where the incessant drizzle left the ground too soft for her, running in the last race of the day. She will next be seen over hurdles.
Follow this link to see Elegant Olive's career in the Racing Post form database: RACING POST FORM