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Alan was pleased with his bumper horses last winter and hopes several of them will do well in novice hurdles this season, and they include Ski Lodge, who makes his jumping debut at Ffos Las on [...]

Alan has enjoyed another good Flat season, and, though Insanity and Paradias, who form our twin attack for the the November Handicap, are among the outsiders for the big finale, they are both in [...]

Egbert goes well fresh and won first time out last season, so, though he is now 12lb higher in what looks an open three-mile chase at Exeter on Friday, he’ll head down the M5 with good [...]

Alan will be at Newbury on Thursday for the first jumps meeting of the season at our local course, and in Masaccio and Emitom he has two clear-cut chances. Emitom, whose rating has soared 15lb [...]

November 5 We have two runners on the polytrack at Kempton tomorrow, including the versatile Tritonic, who carries topweight in the two mile handicap. Rossa Ryan, fresh from his Breeders Cup [...]

November 2 We have a couple of interesting runners at Huntingdon tomorrow in Westerton and Hall Lane, so fingers crossed one or the other (maybe both) can keep up the fine run of the Barbury [...]

November 2 There have been so many wonderful tributes about my former colleague, but, more important, close friend Alastair Down, who sadly died on Thursday at the age of 68. Alastair was the [...]

It is 35 years tomorrow that Lingfield staged the UK’s first all-weather raceday, Newmarket’s initial mile-long Al Bahathri gallop having been installed four years earlier. Nowadays [...]

October 27 Trueshan climaxed another lucrative season when finishing a brave third behind last year’s winner Double Major in the G1 Prix Royal-Oak at Saint-Cloud today. Hollie Doyle, who [...]

The Friday deluge at Newbury did not materialise, which meant that, despite an early morning inspection after overnight rain, the ground, though officially heavy, was not as testing as it might [...]