May 25 Five runners at four different meetings provides plenty of interest in this Saturday’s Barbury raid, and Alan’s team have been running consistently well, with three winners [...]
May 19 We always look for some sympathetic generosity from the handicapper when a horse gets into the twilight zone of his racing career, and, happily, our popular eight-year-old Beringer, who [...]
May 17 Our jumpers have gone six weeks without a winner, but most of the Flat horses have been performing as expected, so we are entitled to be optimistic about the chances of Hourless [...]
May 13 Alan’s horses remain in good form, and few horses deserved to get their head in front more than Greystoke, who won the apprentice handicap at Chester on Friday. It was significant [...]
May 12 Alan has a high opinion about his three-year-old crop this season, and it will be interesting to see how Westerton shapes in the mile and a quarter handicap at Ascot on Saturday. [...]
May 11 Hollie Doyle was aboard Tritonic when he last won on the Flat at Goodwood in October, so with a decent draw in stall eight and the cheekpieces back on, the pair ought not be ignored when [...]
May 10 By my reckoning Dino Velvet has run on 26 difference racecourses, but for his 56th race the popular veteran will be breaking new ground tomorrow when he heads off to Huntingdon. Dino [...]
May 8 I swear I heard some loud cheering ‘up above’ at Newmarket on Saturday when HMS President, carrying the colours of the Henry Ponsonby racing syndicate, got up on the line under [...]
May 4 We all need a break sometimes and Raymond Tusk returns from a four-month holiday at Newmarket on 2000 Guineas day, with Alan and The Unlikely Lads, who own the eight-year-old, hoping that [...]
May 3 We hoped that Trueshan‘s shock defeat on his seasonal debut at Nottingham last month might have been a “one-off”. It was after all the horse’s first flop in 22 [...]