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January 23 Alan was on target with his first Flat runner of 2025 when Paradias won well at Kempton’s polytrack meeting. He was successful at Glorious Goodwood last summer, but he is 2-3 on [...]

It’s amazing that we haven’t celebrated a winner since Rockola‘s somewhat fortuitous success at Huntingdon on January 2. Not that we have suffered too many disappointments in [...]

What could be a potentially lucrative weekend for Barbury starts with fancied runners at both Market Rasen and Windsor on Friday, with a talented duo in Edwardstone and I’m A Lumberjack [...]

January 14 We are hoping that the step up to three miles might help Liz Prowting’s Geturguccion shake off a frustrating bout of second-itis and gain her first success in tomorrow’s [...]

January 10 It’s been a frustrating week for racing with winter finally rearing its ugly head, and even before the hard frost we had on Thursday night, all of of us at Barbury had resigned [...]

January 1 Alan has asked me to send all website readers his best festive wishes but warns not to expect too many fireworks in the first couple of weeks of 2025 as January is when the Barbury [...]

     December 27 Santa might not have delivered all the Christmas presents that Barbury had hoped for, but we can’t complain about a terrific run from Edwardstone under top weight in the [...]

December 24 Edwardstone was long odds-on when he threw in an uncharacteristic bad jump and hit the ground in Kempton’s Desert Orchid Chase two years ago, but, whereas it was a Grade 2 race [...]

December 24 Alan has an early start on Boxing Day as Es Perfecto is in the opener at Kempton, trying to go two places better than he did in this novice handicap chase last year. Es Perfecto has [...]

December 23 Egbert reminds me very much of a few human beings in racing I know. For those tricky two-legged customers, in cricket parlance, “the first over is crucial”, and I’ll [...]