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June 20 Top Tug runs in his fourth Duke of Edinburgh Handicap at Royal Ascot tomorrow, having finished fourth, fifth and seventh in the last three runnings. He will start at big odds but surely [...]

June 18 We are doubly-represented in Thursday’s Britannia Handicap at Royal Ascot, with Dunkerron and Aweedram. Alan said:”Dunkerron is trying a mile for the first time and he looks [...]

June 18 Punters look for outsiders in the Royal Hunt Cup – no favourite has won for 10 years – and there will be plenty worse 20-1 chances at Ascot this week than our own Beringer in [...]

June 16 It was encouraging to see Fidux, a useful hurdler, win first time over fences at Hexham on Saturday, but we turn our focus back to the Flat boys tomorrow, with Kozier, who was nailed in [...]

June 14 Only a week until Midsummer’s Day, but you wouldn’t believe it. Ask the lads at Barbury who yesterday experienced the coldest June day since the 1800’s – and it [...]

June 11 Hardly surprising after Monday’s monsoons, but the going has changed dramatically for all four of the Flat meetings on Thursday – we have a runner at all of them, so [...]

June 7 A relatively quiet week in prospect, but, hopefully, Smith’s Bay, who will start odds-on at Market Rasen today, will follow up his recent Warwick victory, and he looked in top order as he [...]

June is one of Alan’s favourite months – holiday break in Greece plus his annual trip to Royal Ascot – and the month could hardly have started in better fashion. Reflecting on [...]

June 1 Considering May is traditionally one of the quieter months at Barbury, Alan will be well satisiied with four winners and eight places in the last two weeks, and he will be hoping that [...]

May 29 Deyrann de Carjac makes his chasing debut at Cartmel this evening and, while he looks to have two big dangers in this small field, it will be interesting to see how he takes the transition [...]