Going into this weekend’s Barbecue Meeting at Cartmel Racecourse, trainer James Moffatt is feeling more confident in the horses at his Pit Farm Stables than in previous months.

It’s been a successful last two weeks for Cartmel’s Moffatt, who had a couple of winners at Perth a couple of weeks ago in Mega Double and Golden Town, the latter ridden by Barrow’s Charlotte Jones.

It took Moffatt’s tally of winners for the current jump season at to six, while last week he had two horses place third at the same course in The Steward and Mega Double, showing signs that his stable is really hitting its stride now.

Moffatt said: “You never want to rest on your laurels because you’re only as good as your last runner, but they’ve been running well and we feel the horses are in good shape, so we’re looking forward to the meeting.

“It’s the first time in a while I’ve been able to say that. We’ve been sort of spitting and starting, although we’ve had a couple of winners there this year, but I’m quite looking forward to this meeting.

On what has changed in the last couple of months, Moffatt said: “Horses in yards come into form as a group - I’ve likened it to a bit like waves coming on to a beach.

“Obviously, you have your peaks and troughs - you can’t stay in form all year round - so they’re all coming right in themselves.

“We train a lot of them with the summer in mind, so after a quiet winter we’ve got them there now. It’s just a case of holding them there now.”

Moffatt will be looking to pick up where he left off at Cartmel, after he bagged a winner in the final race of the June meeting at the course, with Brian Hughes riding Morning Royalty to victory.

Moffatt now has 48 winners at the course as a jockey or trainer and he has kept his options open as he looks to make it a half-century in the coming days.

He said: “We don’t want to single any of them out because we think an awful lot of them have good chances.

“Boruma has been running very well, as has Mega Double, but I think Dagian on the Monday, as long as we don’t get too much rain, and it doesn’t go to much to an extreme, he should run very well in the Maiden [Hurdle].

“Golden Town is in good order, as is Think Ahead, who is going in the same race, but one of them wants good ground and the other wants soft ground.”