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There's deep troughs and then peaks and Cheap NFL Jerseys you've just got to keep your head down," Oliver Sherwood says of the life of a racehorse trainer, which suggests that he is already on the way back having said only last week that he felt like "packing it up". A ￡3,000 fine over the running of his horse Furrows in a novice chase was perhaps the lowest point in Sherwood's 28-year career, but he has a swift chance to take a first step back towards the peaks at Ascot on Friday.Puffin Billy, who is likely to start at odds-on in the Kennel Gate Novice Hurdle, was one of the cheap nike nfl jerseys most impressive winners of a maiden hurdle this season when he won at Newbury last month. He is also the first horse from Sherwood's yard for several seasons with obvious potential to succeed at the highest level, which would have seemed absurd back in the late 80s and early 90s, when he saddled six Cheltenham Festival winners in nine years.Those winners included The West Awake, who won the SunAlliance Novice Hurdle (now the Neptune) and the RSA Chase in successive years and is still the only horse to complete the cheap china jerseys double. Aldino, Rebel Song, Coulton and Young Pokey won at the meeting, too, while Large Action, Cruising Altitude and Arctic Call contributed major wins for the stable.Sherwood looked destined to be the champion trainer one day. Instead, he drifted towards the edge of the radar as National Hunt's power base condensed into the huge strings of trainers like Paul Nicholls and Nicky Henderson."Those were good times," he says. "But The West Awake, Rebel Song and Cruising Altitude were all owed by Christopher and Maggie Heath, and I had 17 horses for them at one stage. He got out [of racing] after the [collapse of] Barings, so to go from 17 to nought was quite hard."You don't forget how to train, it's cheap jerseys from china like a footballer who can't score goals, it's confidence as well and it's very important for the horse to get confidence too. You're only as good as the horses you've got and without the ammunition you can't win the big races."Sherwood admires the success of the huge modern yards, but has no wish to share their approach. "It's factory farming a little bit, but they do a super job," he says. "I couldn't train 200 horses even if I had them, I couldn't do it and wouldn't want to do it. I think if I trained 200 horses now, I'd be in my grave a lot earlier than I probably should be."The big football teams are getting bigger, the big supermarkets are swallowing up the small people, and the middlemen suffer. If you've got a guy who's in the city and making good money and wants to buy some horses, where do they go to? They go to Nicky or Paul. But I do think it's changing a little cheap nfl jerseys china bit in that some owners want to be slightly bigger fish in a slightly smaller pond."In March, it will be 18 years since Sherwood's last winner at the Cheltenham Festival, but Puffin Billy will have an entry in both the Supreme Novice Hurdle and Neptune Novice Hurdle. Barry Geraghty takes over from Leighton Aspell, who is serving a ban for his ride on Furrows, and it will be a surprise if he is beaten. "Every trainer will tell you that they wake up each morning hoping to see the glint of a superstar in the yard," Sherwood says. "This is hopefully one more step in the right direction."He joined the Senegal and Leeds United forward El Hadji Diouf on two victories although he has some way to go NFL Cheap Jerseys to eclipse the Cameroonian BE1230ZYH Anzhi Makhachkala striker Samuel Eto'o, who has won four titles.Touré was crowned at an awards gala in Ghana's capital, Accra, today after being voted for by the head coaches or technical directors of Africa's national teams. The Africa Cup of Nations winners Zambia were named team of the year with their coach Hervé Renard named coach of the year.Yaya Touré has been named the 2012 African Player of the Year for the second year in succession.The Manchester City and Ivory Coast midfielder beat his countryman Didier Drogba into second place with Cameroon's Alex Song, of Barcelona, in third.