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January 30 January has been a frustrating month for Barbury, what with seemingly endless seconds and thirds, but North Lodge finally got the stable’s jumping team rolling at Cheltenham on [...]

January 27 Our last 10 runners have all finished in the frame, though, frustratingly, we still await our first jumping winner of 2022. We have six horses leaving Barbury on Friday for Huntingdon [...]

January 21 It has been frustrating waiting for our first jumping winner of 2022, having peppered the wire a good few times since we all welcomed in the New Year with a few choruses of Auld Lang [...]

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 [...]