Exciting times ahead for the younger brigade
March 4 Each season every trainer looks to their younger brigade of horses in the hope that they might produce a couple with above-average ability and unlimited potential, be it the two-year-olds [...]
Edwardstone remains a possible for the Grand Annual at Cheltenham next week
March 3 Edwardstone participated at five consecutive Cheltenham Festivals until missing the meeting last year, having picked up an infection, but the evergreen 11-year-old looked in good nick on [...]
Bye Bye February – One Cool Dreamer can send it packing in style at Lingfield
February 26 Like most of us, Alan will be glad to bid farewell to February, and with no runners at Newbury’s two-day meeting, Barbury end the month on a quiet note on Saturday, with One [...]
Paradias seals a return to Newcastle for All-Weather Championships day on Good Friday
February 22 Paradias clinched his place in the Easter Classic field on All-Weather Finals Day at Newcastle on April 3 with a decisive success over hot-favourite Respond at Lingfield on Saturday. [...]
Kempton on Saturday – surely not another treble ?
February 19 Like most trainers, Alan, delighted how well Charisma Cat ran in first-time cheekpieces to finish second to Cheltenham-bound Khisma at Market Rasen on Tuesday, loves a Saturday [...]
Spyce has thrived through the winter and will get a Derby entry next month
February 17 There might still be 39 days until the curtain goes up for the 2026 Flat season, but on arguably one of the few bright, and certainly dry mornings that we have experienced at Barbury [...]
