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April 26 Both I’m A Lumberjack and Blue Tempus  have solid chances today, and don’t rule out at Helnwein at Chepstow tomorrow – he ran far better than his finishing position [...]

April 22 We didn’t manage a winner last week, but Brioni made a pleasing reappearance over a mile at Newmarket’s Craven meeting and will improve when he goes back up to 10 furlongs, [...]

April 17 Alan. aided by Anthony Bromley’s Highflyer Bloodstock team, was busy at the Breeze-Up Sale at Newmarket’s Craven meeting this week, acquiring three two-year-old colts to [...]

April 17 Only one of our five runners so far this week failed to make the frame, and, while Alan was delighted with Harbour Lake, One Cool Dreamer, Big Boy Bobby and Granny Hawkins, he would also [...]

April 16 We are virtually a 50-50 stable at Barbury these days, with almost as many Flat horses as jumpers in the yard, and the focus swings back to the level at Newmarket on Thursday with Brioni [...]

April 15 It always looked long odds against Big Boy Bobby making the cut for the conditional jockeys and amateurs hurdle at Aintree, so Alan has kept him back for the finale at Cheltenham [...]

They say that seeing is believing but sometimes you walk away from a sporting event convinced that you need to go to Specsavers as there can be no way that your eyes have given you a correct [...]

Doubtless, Alan will turn the clock back 12 years on Saturday morning and reflect how Godsmejudge won the Scottish Grand National at Ayr, just a few miles from where he was born in World Cup [...]

Take out Royal Ascot and the Cheltenham Festival and there is no racecourse that Alan would rather attend than Ayr, especially at the two-day Scottish Grand National meeting, Being born and bred [...]

Alan did not strike a blow with the small team which he sent up to Aintree last week for the Grand National meeting, but several of the horses did Barbury proud. I have sensed no shortage of [...]