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December 14 Rain is expected this week-end, but it’s anybody’s guess as to when it will arrive at Cheltenham and Doncaster, so we are very much playing with “blind cards”. [...]

December 13 Cheltenham are talking of rain on Saturday – and maybe quite a bit – but Alan would like it to arrive at Prestbury Park at least 24 hours earlier so as to provide our [...]

December 8 For the third time in four years Alan won the Grade 2 Winter Hurdle at Sandown on Friday, and, having not raced until she won an Irish point-to-point when only just turned six last [...]

December 8 Huntingdon has proved a happy hunting-ground for Alan over the years, and with four runners there on Sunday, he hopes to return home to Barbury with something to celebrate. We are [...]

Everyone at Barbury was so proud of Dingo Dollar‘s gallant third in last week’s £250,000 Ladbroke Trophy, but three silvers and another bronze at Newbury’s prestigious Winter Carnival [...]

November 30 The race might have a different sponsor to when Smad Place provided Alan with one of his most exciting days on a racecourse three years ago, but the Ladbroke Trophy remains [...]

November 29 Tomorrow is St Andrew’s Day, and, being a proud Scotsman, Alan would like nothing better than to top up the celebrations with a winner at Newbury, our local track. This is their [...]

Things have kept rolling on steadily since Sceau Royal hit the heights at Cheltenham last Saturday, and it would be nice to think that we have more of the same lined up this week-end, when our [...]

November 21 Alan won’t want November to end. In what has been an incredible month for Barbury he has sent out 14 winners in the last fortnight alone, including the 1,600th of his career, [...]

November 18 Sceau Royal duly delivered on his eagerly-awaited comeback from “a slight tweak of the suspensory” in the Shloer Chase at Cheltenham today. But Sceau Royal, beaten only [...]