The Doyen Chief is the same age as was Smad Place!
November 27 Second-season novices have an excellent record in the Coral Gold Cup – still known by us old-timers as the Hennessy – and The Doyen Chief ticks a lot of the boxes for [...]
Barbury team make a timely return to winning form with a double on Tuesday
November 26 Happily, Barbury’s frustrating run of near-misses through November came to and end yesterday, with Granny Hawkins winning on her seasonal debut at Hereford, while I’d Go [...]
No surprise if The Doyen Chief emulates Smad Place in Hennessy on Saturday
November 22 It is now 10 years since Alan enjoyed one of his most memorable days on the racecourse, winning the Hennessy Gold Cup on our local course with Smad Place. Masaccio was the horse many [...]
Baron Noir ‘bumps into one’ on his reappearance at Warwick
November 20 It’s been a frustrating few days for Alan and Noel Fehily, with Baron Noir going the same way at Warwick yesterday as Helnwein (Cheltenham) and Ski Lodge (Lingfield) had done in [...]
Our Punchestown winner Baron Noir returns at Warwick tomorrow
November 19 Ski Lodge made a pleasing return after almost 12 months absence when runner-up at Lingfield on Monday, but we are hoping that Baron Noir, who will carry the same Noel Fehily Racing [...]
Ski Lodge makes a belated return at Lingfield on Tuesday
November 17 Helnwein ran a corker to finish second in the prestigious Greatwood Hurdle at Cheltenham yesterday, travelling like a dream in the testing ground for Tom Bellamy and only giving best [...]
Not Edwardstone’s day but don’t write off our stable-star just yet
November 14 Alan has already gone on record as saying that Edwardstone might try two and a half miles again on what will be the 11-year-old’s final season, and it was crystal-clear in [...]
We make a twin-attack at winning a third Greatwood Hurdle at Cheltenham on Sunday
November 14 Alan has won the prestigious Greatwood Hurdle twice in the last eight years, courtesy of Elgin and Harambe, and he is doubly-represented in Sunday’s feature at Cheltenham with [...]
Edwardstone and Es Perfecto might both be over-priced at Cheltenham this week-end
November 13 Our much-loved stable-star Edwardstone starts his final campaign on the racecourse on Friday, when he has his third crack at Cheltenham’s Grade 2 Shloer Chase, a race in which [...]
Nine times winner Finest View bids us farewell in brave fashion at Bangor
Finest View, who has been a fantastic racemare for David and Kathleen Holmes’s Pitchall Farm Stud in Warwickshire, has been retired after producing her customary brave effort at Bangor [...]
