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February 26 Like most of us, Alan will be glad to bid farewell to February, and with no runners at Newbury’s two-day meeting, Barbury end the month on a quiet note on Saturday, with One [...]

February 22 Paradias clinched his place in the Easter Classic field on All-Weather Finals Day at Newcastle on April 3 with a decisive success over hot-favourite Respond at Lingfield on Saturday. [...]

February 19 Like most trainers, Alan, delighted how well Charisma Cat ran in first-time cheekpieces to finish second to Cheltenham-bound Khisma at Market Rasen on Tuesday, loves a Saturday [...]

February 17 There might still be 39 days until the curtain goes up for the 2026 Flat season, but on arguably one of the few bright, and certainly dry mornings that we have experienced at Barbury [...]

February 17 Loyalty is rare – if you find it, keep it, and Alan is adamant that he unveiled a real winner when he snapped up Charlotte Burke as his Racing Secretary and PA back in 2001. [...]

February 16 Charisma Cat is still something of a work in progress, but Alan has always had a high opinion of the Waley-Cohen owned six-year-old. so it will be interesting to see how she shapes in [...]

February 15 Alan won the Grade 1 Melling Chase twice with Voy Por Ustedes, and, with Edwardstone having been beaten nine times at Cheltenham since winning the Arkle Chase there in 2022, Alan [...]

February 13 Alan confesses that he is “under no illusions” that Edwardstone faces a herculean task in tomorrow’s Grade 1 Betfair Ascot Chase, in which he takes on Jonbon for a [...]

February 5 Frustrated by the never-ending testing ground conditions we have encountered since the turn of the year, Alan envisages another quiet week-end, and, unusually for Barbury, we have no [...]

February 4 It did not take long for Barbury to get on the February score-sheet, with King Al winning the Juvenile Hurdle at Ludlow today, hot on the heels of a creditable third from Neon Dream at [...]