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December 23 Alan stresses that it will be a relatively quiet Christmas for Barbury, though he is looking forward to seeing Charisma Cat out again in the mares novices hurdle at Wincanton on [...]

December 18 Alan has twice enjoyed a bumper pre-Christmas celebration at Ascot, courtesy of Raya Star and Tritonic, both of whom won the their big handicap hurdle going into the festive period. [...]

December 15 Kempton Park was the first racecourse I attended, going by bicycle with my dad as a 12th birthday present on Easter Saturday 1960. So I can quite understand the horror that Alan felt [...]

December 13 Last week-end Alan confessed that he was in a bit of a dilemma as to whether to stick to Flat racing on the all-weather with Blazeon Five or go back over hurdles, where the [...]

Tom Bellamy, who has three good rides coming up for Alan this week-end, is in terrific form and has already booted home six winners this month, the most recent being the Barbury-trained Irish [...]

December 10 Cheltenham might be Alan’s favourite jumps track, but he is also pretty keen on Warwick and we look to have chances at both tracks over the next three days. We have won the [...]

December 10 “Delighted” beamed Alan when I asked him this morning how he rated Edwardstone‘s staying on second to King George-bound Djelo when going up to two and a half miles [...]

December 9 We had high hopes of celebrating a double for Noel Fehily’s syndicates at Uttoxeter today, and, while Ski Lodge was a game runner-up on his chasing debut, Baron Noir, already a [...]

December 2 It is just short of 12 months since Believitanducan won for the Owners Group 140 at Newbury when carrying the syndicate’s lilac colours for the very first time, and at Plumpton [...]

December 1 The Racing Calendar never stops turning, so, while today we welcome December, Alan already has Grandeur d’Ame pencilled in for the £100,000 Betfair Exchange Handicap Chase over [...]