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January 30 Last Saturday was frustrating with Grandeur d’Ame beaten a whisker in the £100,000 chase at Cheltenham, but he produced a career-best performance which has earned him a return to [...]

January 24 How impressive was Castle Carrack on his jumping debut in the opener at Sandown today? Bought for £100,000 two days after he won his bumper for Nicky Richards at Ayr in November, [...]

January 23 Alan was on target with his first Flat runner of 2025 when Paradias won well at Kempton’s polytrack meeting. He was successful at Glorious Goodwood last summer, but he is 2-3 on [...]

It’s amazing that we haven’t celebrated a winner since Rockola‘s somewhat fortuitous success at Huntingdon on January 2. Not that we have suffered too many disappointments in [...]

What could be a potentially lucrative weekend for Barbury starts with fancied runners at both Market Rasen and Windsor on Friday, with a talented duo in Edwardstone and I’m A Lumberjack [...]

January 14 We are hoping that the step up to three miles might help Liz Prowting’s Geturguccion shake off a frustrating bout of second-itis and gain her first success in tomorrow’s [...]

January 10 It’s been a frustrating week for racing with winter finally rearing its ugly head, and even before the hard frost we had on Thursday night, all of of us at Barbury had resigned [...]

January 1 Alan has asked me to send all website readers his best festive wishes but warns not to expect too many fireworks in the first couple of weeks of 2025 as January is when the Barbury [...]