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Alan has made no secret of the fact that he rates his novice chasers this season an above-average crop, and maybe we saw the best so far at Newbury today in Masaccio, who ran a corker to chase [...]

Newbury won’t seem quite the same today without Emitom, who can boast two wins and three seconds on our local course from just five visits, having only joined our Barbury stable nine months [...]

November 28 What locals still refer to as Newbury’s Hennessy Festival has always been one of Alan’s highlights of the jumps season, and he will need no reminding that he celebrated [...]

Es Perfecto finally confirmed the impression we had this time last year that he would make up into an exciting novice chaser when he justified favouritism in the two and a half mile handicap [...]

Alan loves Warwick, but the two-day meeting on the Midlands course this week was somewhat frustrating as, though saddling the 1-2 in the bumper, with Charisma Cat beating Annie Hathaway, we had [...]

Alan has a high opinion of Helnwein, but he stressed before Warwick that whatever he did on his chasing debut on the Midlands course he will improve as the season progressed. It was as if Alan is [...]

November 19 The going at Warwick on Thursday is bound to be softer than it will be on the Midlands course tomorrow as the ground will have been opened up after action there on day one. However, [...]

November 18 This could be an important week for what Alan calls “a potentially exciting bunch of novice chasers”, and Menaggio took another step up the ladder when making it 2-2 over [...]

November 15 Edwardstone lost nothing in defeat when put in his place for a fourth time by his arch-rival Jonbon in today’s Grade 2 Shloer Chase at Cheltenham. Starting the 9-2 [...]

November 14 Alan won the ‘Introductory’ Hurdle at Wetherby 12 months ago with Favour And Fortune, and, though this year’s renewal looks a tight five-runner contest, he is [...]