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Finest View, who has been a fantastic racemare for David and Kathleen Holmes’s Pitchall Farm Stud in Warwickshire, has been retired after producing her customary brave effort at Bangor [...]

November 12 Sixty’s Rock is a non-runner at Bangor today, but we are still doubly-represented at the North Wales track, with Coral Gold Cup entry The Doyen Chief aiming to carry on where he [...]

November 7 The curtain comes down at Doncaster tomorrow on what has been a successful 2025 Flat season for Barbury, with the small squad of two-year-olds looking potentially exciting. This has [...]

November 3 It’s been an amazing seven days for Barbury, with the week-end victories of Galaxy Star at Stratford and Vivid Pink at Huntingdon giving us five winners from our last eight [...]

October 30 Our only Saturday runner this week is Don’t Mind If I Do, one of our most exciting novices last season and who makes his handicap debut up at Wetherby. This will be Don’t [...]

October 29 Few trainers are bowing out of February in better form than Alan, and Barbury made it 3-3 this week when Blazeonfive (9-1) followed up his recent Ascot success when coming from last to [...]

October 28 Happily, both our runners so far this week have won – Betterforeveryone confirmed his love for Bangor but looks capable of winning a long-distance chase whichever direction he [...]

  October 24 Alan was at David Maxwell’s Dispersal Sale at Cheltenham on Friday, bidding a fond farewell to the enigmatic but hugely talented Off The Jury, who changed hands for [...]

October 23 Alan does not have too many confirmed mudlarks here at Barbury, but one who won’t mind the ground being on the soft side at Newbury on Saturday is King Al, who steps up in grade [...]

October 23 Well, we’ve all been praying for rain all summer, and it has finally arrived this week. Nap Hand looked to be all at sea in the mudbath at Plumpton on Monday and punters, who [...]