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April 28 Soft ground has been a pain for Alan all season, with most of the Barbury team excelling on a good surface, but underfoot conditions at Doncaster today ought to be ideal for Westerton, [...]

April 24 We have endured eight places since Hourless gave Barbury their last winner nine days ago, but Alan makes a two-pronged attack on the once-historic Great Metropolitan Handicap at Epsom on [...]

April 20 You would think that the one place that would get a bellyful of April showers at this time of the year would be the west coast of Scotland. However, not a bit of it. Ayr, who stage the [...]

April 19 We have definitely not yet turned our back on the 2022-23 jumps season, and before heading north of the border for Saturday’s Scottish Grand National, we have a runner at each [...]

April 12 Trueshan fans got their wish when the heavens opened at Nottingham on Tuesday, turning the ground to “soft, heavy in places”, But our stable-star, who started at 4-9 today to [...]

April 12 Alan might have been on the wrong end of a major upset when Trueshan was beaten at Nottingham today, but at tomorrow’s opening stage of the Grand National meeting he hopes to be [...]

April 10 It’s all systems go for Trueshan to get his 2023 season rolling in the Listed Further Flight Stakes at Nottingham on Wednesday. Trueshan won this race 12 months ago, and, though [...]

April 7 Being something of a ‘golden oldie’ myself, I never worry about the fact that the years roll by at a rapid rate of knots when you reach ‘a certain age’. You are as [...]

April 6 Alan has a good recent record at Haydock’s valuable Challenger Series Final Day, celebrating victory with the likes of Willoughby Hedge, Mahlermade and Midnightreferendum. And, [...]

April 5 Alan’s small team of winter Flat horses have surpassed themselves in the first three months of 2023. And Lunar Shadow‘s success at Lingfield last week was Barbury’s [...]