November 30 We have four runners on Thursday, two over jumps at Wincanton and another brace heading off to Chelmsford for their all-weather meeting. Alan said:”Midnight Glance won well in [...]
November 25 It’s seven years since Smad Place won the race which most professionals still refer to as the Hennessy, and, while Potterman, Barbury’s representative in the Newbury [...]
November 23 Two exciting bumper winners and an impressive winning four-year-old jumping hurdles for the first time – the last five days have thrown us everything, including plenty of [...]
November 2 Alan might well head off to Wetherby on Wednesday, as he has two interesting recruits from the Flat making their jumping debut, both part-owned by his good friend Max McNeill. Spartan [...]
Despite the fact that Market Rasen were forced to abandon half-way through Thursday’s meeting because of torrential rain, the ground has dried up so quickly in the UK this summer, so maybe [...]
November 17 It has been a mixed week so far, but Midnight Glance came good in cheekpieces at Exeter on Monday and on the Flat the veteran Rainbow Dreamer bounced back to form at his beloved [...]
November 14 Alan describes the JP McManus-owned Gitche Gumee as “an exciting horse”, and, having won his bumper at Kempton in the spring, the four-year-old, who lived up to [...]
November 13 Another dry night at Cheltenham confirmed Alan’s fears that he would have no option but to withdraw Edwardstone from today’s Shloer Chase. Alan had been really keen to get [...]
November 11 Sunday morning might see Alan’s nerves jangling somewhat as he looks ahead to the seasonal reappearance of our Arkle Chase hero Edwardstone at Cheltenham that afternoon. [...]
November 10 Punters traditionally find the Paddy Power Gold Cup a hard puzzle to solve, with the last 12 favourites having been beaten and only three market-leaders in the last 20 years being [...]