January 14 It has been another horrible week of rain, but at least we are promised a dry day on Friday, so, hopefully, there will be no last minute hiccups for the meetings at Warwick and Market [...]
January 14 Sadly, Friday’s Huntingdon meeting, where we hoped to run both Harambe and Colours of Life, has been abandoned after the Alconbury Brook, which borders the track, burst its [...]
January 13 Thursday could be a big day for Alan as he runs two of our classier mares – The Glancing Queen and Midnight Ginger – in novices hurdles against their own sex at Bangor and [...]
January 11 Here’s hoping will can carry on the stable’s good form from Saturday into the new week, and, with Ascot third Royal Pretender, holding solid prospects at Doncaster on [...]
January 9 Alan’s persuasive powers in talking owners Simon Munir and Isaac Souede out of retiring Messire des Obeaux have certainly paid off, and he looked every bit as good as he had done [...]
January 7 Daniel Cooper, clerk of the course at Wincanton, rates their chances of surviving a midday inspection tomorrow for Saturday’s meeting as 50-50. but there will be some [...]
January 6 There was a spring in everyone’s step at a bitterly cold Barbury Stables this morning, and a few of the more senior lads were allegedly heard to be reciting a chorus or two of The [...]
December 31 We all probably leave Christmas behind, thinking “what might have been”, but for all at Barbury it was particularly frustrating, what with Sceau Royal, On To Victory and [...]
December 27 For obvious reasons, we’ll all be glad to bid farewell to 2020 at midnight on Thursday, but, despite all the horrors, it has been a fruitful year on the track for Barbury. And, [...]
December 24 No 10-year-old has ever won the Grade 2 Desert Orchid Chase, which must give Alan and the team at Barbury hope that at the fifth time of trying, Sceau Royal, two years the younger, [...]