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March 25 There is no better place on a crisp spring morning than high up on the Sharp Ridge gallop, and, with five winners from his last 19 runners, Alan was yesterday fairly chipper as he looked [...]

March 21 From the start of the season Alan mapped out the EBF Mares Novices’ Final for Charisma Cat, but he had to wait until today at Newbury for the long-range plan to reach fruition. [...]

March 19 Alan has made no secret of the fact that Helnwein reserves his best form for the spring, and he is looking for a big run from the topweight in the BetVictor Handicap Hurdle at Newbury [...]

March 19 Barbury look to have a useful bunch of bumper horses this season, with a fistful emerging triumphant during March, and, while Stars Aligning and Georgie Too, did not manage to join that [...]

March 13 We are not yet half-way through March, yet Alan has already celebrated six winners this month, the most recent being Annie Hathaway, who never broke sweat to win the mares maiden hurdle [...]

March 13 Alan fired all three of his Cheltenham bullets on the opening day of this year’s NH Festival, and, while he never went to Prestbury Park on Tuesday expecting a winner, it was [...]

March 9 It has been a great start to March for Barbury, with five winners in the last 10 days. three of them with potentially exciting bumper horses. We look to Sixty’s Rock to continue our [...]

March 7 Tom Bellamy’s winning run goes on, and our stable jockey was in double form for Barbury at Hereford today, taking his tally since last Saturday to seven. Granny Hawkins repeated her [...]

March 7 Our stable jockey Tom Bellamy has been in scintillating form this past week, with his two bumper winners for Barbury – Friendly Glance and Nevada Samba – being complemented by [...]

March 4 Each season every trainer looks to their younger brigade of horses in the hope that they might produce a couple with above-average ability and unlimited potential, be it the two-year-olds [...]