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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]