ANTHONY Honeyball has announced a new sponsorship deal with horseracing website geegeez.co.uk.

Creator Matt Bisogno has been an owner with Honeyball for several years and geegeez readers currently own two horses in the yard, The Geegeez Geegee and East Wing.

The new agreement means stable staff at Honeyball’s yard, Potwell Farm, near Mosterton, will wear geegeez-branded clothing, and horses trained by Honeyball will be seen in branded paddock sheets on the racecourse.

Honeyball said: “Matt joined our racing club a few years ago and then become an owner.

“He has always been very supportive and he is passionate about racing.

“We’re delighted to welcome Geegeez as our yard sponsor for the forthcoming season.”

Bisogno added: “This is an exciting first venture into sponsorship for the site, and I feel it is a great way to promote the name of a resource that too few people in the wider racing community are aware of.

“Equally importantly, it is brilliant to be supporting Anthony, Rachael and all of the team at Potwell Farm.”

Honeyball trains a team of 35 horses at Mosterton from where he sent out 27 winners last season.

His horses for this season include the JP McManus-owned Regal Encore who made a promising chasing debut at Chepstow earlier in the month.

Other horses include the handicap chasers Victors Serenade, Solstice Son, Royal Native and Chill Factor; Creswell Breeze, who is set to go novice chasing, and a clutch of promising young bumper horses including Pure Vision, who made an eye-catching debut at Chepstow, Midnight Tune, Le Coeur Net and East Wing.

Honeyball’s career began at his family home on the Quantocks where his father trained the great racehorse The Dikler to win his first point-to-point.

His mother showjumped and between them they have produced many horses for all disciplines.

Honeyball worked and rode as an amateur for Richard Barber and progressed as a conditional jockey for Paul Nicholls, riding 45 winners before he began his training career in 2006.

Honeyball said: “The quality of the horses here is starting to come through and it’s exciting that we have several that will be progressing to fences this season, as well as some nice young bumper horses.”

Like most trainers, Honeyball’s aim is to improve on last year’s statistics, and he would also like to train a graded winner.