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November 28 Alan has already had a fistful of jumping winners from the younger brigade this autumn, and I am looking forward to the classy Paradias making his debut over hurdles at Lingfield on [...]

November 23 With his 12th birthday only 37 days away, one might assume that this will be Sceau Royal‘s last season on the track, but Barbury’s ‘golden oldie’, who runs his [...]

November 21 Alan has always loved seeing how one of his better hurdlers copes with the switch to fences, and on Thursday he launches both Tritonic and Hall Lane over the larger obstacles. [...]

November 20 Taking a leaf out of the well-worn motto of parents when their young children start sports participation at school, Alan’s philosophy en route to Cheltenham on Sunday was [...]

November 17 Alan gained plenty of encouragement from the runs of both his two-year-old runners at Kempton on Wednesday, Brioni, who was only beaten a neck in what looked a good mile novice, and [...]

November 14 Alan has enjoyed another great season on the Flat, and, though he has not got too many more to run on the all-weather before the end of the year, he has already clocked up 28 winners [...]

November 10 With the rain lashing down all night at Newbury, I am delighted to be able to convey some more cheerful news to Barbury fans this morning – last night’s crowning of our [...]

November 9 Frustrating with a capital F. No fewer than four of our six runners today finished second, with perhaps the hardest to swallow being The Doyen Chief going under by a short head on his [...]

November 8 Following a busy Wednesday at Warwick, where Helnwein justified favouritism when making a winning jumping debut, there is more frantic midweek action on Thursday, with four runners at [...]

November 6 With four seconds and a brace of thirds in the first week of November, it was a relief that Forever William got Barbury back in the winner’s enclosure when springing a 14-1 [...]