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While many point-to-point trainers are desperate for some drier weather to run horses, Wyn Morris wants it in order to turn a horse out.

Ardview Boy is a restless soul, but a good pointer who won three times last season for Amber Mathias’s yard when ridden by Ben Jones. West Wales-based Morris (pictured above) bought the 11-year-old in the close season, and it paid off at Wadebridge last month when Ardview Boy provided Dylan Kitts with a first winner. The plan is to head back to the same track on Sunday.

Morris says: “It’s essential to turn the horse out each day, because otherwise he just gets silly, but it’s been so wet, cold and windy. We haven’t even been able to put horses on the walker.

“One day coming back from the gallops he bolted with Dylan, jumped a wall into a neighbour’s garden, went across the lawn and jumped out the other side – luckily Dylan was still on his back.”

That original form of schooling was only one hardship for Kitts. Morris says: “Because it’s been so wet at home we decided to take the horse to the beach, which is 45 minutes away, for a swim in the sea. Dylan was up to his waist in freezing water.”

Ardview Boy is one of five entries for the novice and veteran riders’ conditions race at Wadebridge, where racing starts at noon. The meeting had been abandoned after two failed attempts to stage it, but when another Cornish meeting at Great Trethew was called off officials rallied around to resurrect the Wadebridge fixture, and they did so within the time limit for original entries to remain in place.

Ardview Boy, seen winning under Ben Jones at Llwyn Ddu last season