A Vow Not To Leave It So Long Next Time For the first time in what seems like weeks, the sun finally decided to come out on Saturday and yours truly decided to head south to Lingfield Races, a course I haven’t visited in nearly twenty years! The last time I was there, the [...]
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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All Dressed Up With Somewhere To Go I have never been particularly fashion conscious, and my sartorial elegance shifts wildly between mid-90s grunge to a tweed jacket and flat cap, but last Wednesday it appears I got it all seriously wrong. Twelve months ago whilst in York, and in my defence slightly drunk, I purchased [...]
Thursday, May 3, 2012
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Singing In The Rain The last seven days have seen some incessant rain, high winds, two broken umbrellas and the final curtain call for a National Hunt season that I will never forget. Traditionally, Sandown’s mixed ‘Whitbread’ meeting has always been the grand finale of the winter game, where champions both equine and human are [...]
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
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Trials and Tribulations Whilst the Grand National has been in the dock during the past seven days, Flat racing has undergone some trials of a different sort this week, as the season stepped up a gear with some quality action at both Newmarket and Newbury. Hoping there would be clues aplenty for the future; yours [...]
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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Aintree Heroes Racehorse trainers come in all shapes and sizes and from many different backgrounds. Of the current triumvirate at the top of National Hunt championship leader board, one is the son of a policeman, one an amateur jockey and the founder of Racecourse Holdings Trust and the man in third place carries the name [...]
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
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Merseyside Musings I have only ever been to Aintree once and that was quite a few years ago now, on Becher Chase day back in 2004. Silver Birch took the autumn showpiece that day en route to Grand National glory a year and a half later. I would love to go to the National Meeting [...]
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
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Not Yet, Not Yet Whilst all eyes were on Dubai for the richly endowed World Cup meeting and, closer to home, the domestic Flat season got underway on Doncaster’s Town Moor, I headed east to The Puckeridge Hunt’s meeting at the aptly named Horseheath for an afternoon’s Point-to-Pointing in Cambridgeshire. With such a large gap [...]
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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The Art of the Racehorse Prehistoric man first painted horses on the walls of their caves some 30,000 years ago and whilst the methodology and materials used to draw our equine friends may have changed, the practice of capturing the movement of horses for posterity remains as popular as ever. For many people, including myself, [...]
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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