December 30 Being a loyal Scot, Alan obviously has a soft spot for the New Year, but this year he hopes to carry over Hogmanay celebrations into Sunday, when we have a quartet heading to [...]
December 29 Alan has enjoyed a memorable 2022 and he hopes to end it on a high, with two runners at Newbury and one at Warwick on New Year’s Eve. Senior Citizen recaptured his best form in [...]
December 28 Alan is never afraid to throw one of his good hurdlers straight into a novice handicap when making the transition to fences, so the appearance in Call of the Wild at Doncaster on [...]
December 28 Sadly, Santa’s sack addressed to Barbury somehow mislaid the joyful present sent by Lady Luck for Edwardstone, but at least we were able to celebrate a Christmas victory for [...]
December 24 Whatever Christmas presents Santa might leave me tomorrow, I plan to keep back a bottle of my best champagne until Tuesday, hoping we might all get our number one wish for the Festive [...]
December 23 Alan returned from a short break in Dubai on Wednesday, having been out there with his wife Rachel to see their daughter Georgia, who has been gaining valuable experience on a [...]
December 12 Both daytime temperatures and forecast rainfall are expected to take an upward surge after next week-end, which is encouraging news for Alan as he attempts to make his running plans [...]
December 9 Both Cheltenham and Doncaster have got the go-ahead to race on Friday, following morning inspections, and, while Alan has withdrawn Call of the Wild from Town Moor, we have Restitution [...]
Alan might have upset the social media ‘experts’ when twice pulling out Edwardstone from races at the 11th-hour last month, but the boss played his ace when he was happy that the [...]
December 2 We go into today’s racing with one winner and five seconds from seven runners this week, and it has to be encouraging that the horses are in top form for what is going to be a [...]