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September 15 Mornings on the gallops at Barbury are always informative and seem to fly by as fast as  Middle Park Stakes-bound Asymmetric.  But today you barely had time to breathe as exercise [...]

September 11 The heavens opened on Town Moor too late for Trueshan to take on Stradivarius in the Doncaster Cup yesterday, but Alan still had plenty to celebrate, having gone to Sandown to saddle [...]

September 8 Alan has always stressed that Trueshan is ground dependent – the rain came too late for Barbury’s brilliant mud-lover in the Yorkshire Cup in May, the Ascot Gold Cup in [...]

August 31 We look north for a flying start to September on Thursday, launching a twin-attack on the tapeta surface for the Racing League meeting at Newcastle. Painless Potter, fifth in the [...]

August 28 This is a light week-end for Barbury, but we hope to maybe celebrate a winner with one of our final two Flat runners in August, No Recollection at Beverley and Reversion at Newmarket. [...]

August 22 You can often see a lot of positives about defeats, and, while Perfect Power reversed Richmond Stakes form with Asymmetric in the G1 Prix Morny at Deauville on Sunday, Barbury’s [...]

August 20 Alan has never been a great traveller, and the Maldives in January is one of the few times that he has his passport stamped these days. However, Alan has always put his horses first, so [...]

August 20 Next month’s Doncaster Cup could be the new target for Trueshan, who was pulled out of a clash with Stradivarius in today’s Lonsdale Cup at York at the 11th hour because of [...]

August 18 The Ebor Handicap is one of Henry Ponsonby’s favourite races – he won it with Tiger Cliff in 2013 – and he is hopeful of a big run from On To Victory in [...]

August 18 Dickens got the week rolling in great style for Barbury with a comfortable success on the tapeta surface at Wolverhampton on Tuesday, and now we can look forward to the prestigious Ebor [...]