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January 18 Everyone in the yard loves a winner at Newbury, and there is plenty of confidence that we have more to celebrate after Clifton Bridge has run in his second bumper on our local course [...]

January 16 Alan hopes to get his 2022 Flat team rolling at Wolverhampton on Monday, when he runs both Rainbow Dreamer and Coeur de Lion in the fast-track qualifier for all-weather finals day at [...]

January 13 Two weeks into 2022 and we have still to celebrate a winner from Barbury, but, though frustrated by the fact that we have already clocked up seven seconds in January, Alan was forced [...]

January 6 We have endured seven seconds or thirds since Edwardstone won at Kempton over Christmas, and Alan is not expecting too many fireworks during January as this is the time when he always [...]

January 2 The Glancing Queen lost nothing in defeat when beating all but the smart L’Homme Presse on her first race against the boys over fences at Cheltenham on Saturday, and the 12-1 [...]

December 31 Alan, who is as Scottish as Billy Connolly, is delaying his Hogmanay celebrations until Cheltenham tomorrow, hoping that The Glancing Queen can give Barbury a flying start to 2022 by [...]

December 28 It will be 15 years next March since Alan clocked up back-to-back victories in the Grade 1 Arkle Chase at Cheltenham, courtesy of Voy Por Ustedes and My Way de Solzen, but he now has [...]

December 24 Edwardstone is rated 16lb and more superior to the other four entries in Monday’s Grade 2 Wayward Lad Novices’ Chase at Kempton, so even with his 5lb penalty he would be [...]

December 23   Tritonic was our only winner last week, but only two of the other nine runners failed to make the frame, and one of these, Notachance, ran the perfect dress-rehearsal for a possible [...]

December 19 Off the track most of us will be happy to kick 2021 into touch with a chorus of Auld Lang Syne in 12 days time, but owner Max McNeill’s horses have been on fire through December [...]