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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 [...]

Doubtless, Alan will turn the clock back 12 years on Saturday morning and reflect how Godsmejudge won the Scottish Grand National at Ayr, just a few miles from where he was born in World Cup [...]

Take out Royal Ascot and the Cheltenham Festival and there is no racecourse that Alan would rather attend than Ayr, especially at the two-day Scottish Grand National meeting, Being born and bred [...]

Alan did not strike a blow with the small team which he sent up to Aintree last week for the Grand National meeting, but several of the horses did Barbury proud. I have sensed no shortage of [...]

April 4 Tomorrow’s Grade 1 Mersey Novices’ Hurdle is the perfect hors d’oeuvres for the Grand National, and the race often throws up a future superstar, with the likes of Best [...]

April 3 We have four runners at Aintree today but three of them come in the same race, the William Hill Handicap Hurdle. Owner-amateur rider David Maxwell obviously takes the mount on Off The [...]

April 2 The Barbury team are virtually 50-50 between Flat and jumpers, and I was impressed with the way 10-furlong specialist Brioni did a sharp breeze up the hill when I joined Alan on the [...]

March 30 With The Doyen Chief coping admirably with the switch back to a left-hand circuit when winning at Warwick, and both Paradias and Tritonic coming through their Good Friday prep-races at [...]