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May 15 It is very rare for Alan not to have a single entry for Saturday, but he makes up for it with a busy Friday, four runners at Newbury, plus a couple heading up to York for the final day of [...]

May 11 May celebrations continue at Barbury, with Harbour Lake reversing last month’s Cheltenham form with Long Draw in winning the Pertemps Long Distance Handicap Hurdle at Haydock [...]

May 9 This has been a good week for Barbury, with three winners this week, and there are high hopes that we could enjoy another Saturday celebration, with three runners at Haydock and one at [...]

May 7 Alan has several potentially exciting three-year-olds for this Flat season, and, following hard on the heels of Kurakka‘s impressive win at Chelmsford last week, Daiquiri Bay looked [...]

May 7 Finest View, who spent much of the winter back at David and Kathleen Holmes’s Pitchall Farm Stud in Warwickshire, returns to action under topweight in the two-mile handicap chase at [...]

May 5 It was almost a year ago to the day since Alan bought Daiquiri Bay for 62,000gn at the Guineas Breeze-Up sale, and, having shown plenty of promise on his racecourse debut at Newbury last [...]

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 [...]