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May 1 Barbury kicked off  the month of May in perfect fashion with Alan celebrating a double on the opening day, Baron Noir winning the bumper at the Punchestown Festival, while Kurakka made it [...]

May 1 Temperatures are expected to plummet next week, but the weather should hold through until Sunday, which ought to ensure glorious weather for Goodwood on Friday and Saturday. Maple Street [...]

April 29 Most trainers are desperate for the weather to break, so providing us with a few of Britain’s traditional April showers, which would enable them to enjoy some of their work [...]

April 26 Both I’m A Lumberjack and Blue Tempus  have solid chances today, and don’t rule out at Helnwein at Chepstow tomorrow – he ran far better than his finishing position [...]

April 22 We didn’t manage a winner last week, but Brioni made a pleasing reappearance over a mile at Newmarket’s Craven meeting and will improve when he goes back up to 10 furlongs, [...]

April 17 Alan. aided by Anthony Bromley’s Highflyer Bloodstock team, was busy at the Breeze-Up Sale at Newmarket’s Craven meeting this week, acquiring three two-year-old colts to [...]

April 17 Only one of our five runners so far this week failed to make the frame, and, while Alan was delighted with Harbour Lake, One Cool Dreamer, Big Boy Bobby and Granny Hawkins, he would also [...]

April 16 We are virtually a 50-50 stable at Barbury these days, with almost as many Flat horses as jumpers in the yard, and the focus swings back to the level at Newmarket on Thursday with Brioni [...]

April 15 It always looked long odds against Big Boy Bobby making the cut for the conditional jockeys and amateurs hurdle at Aintree, so Alan has kept him back for the finale at Cheltenham [...]

They say that seeing is believing but sometimes you walk away from a sporting event convinced that you need to go to Specsavers as there can be no way that your eyes have given you a correct [...]