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Wednesday 13 January
More bloody snow this morning!! Hopefully this will be the last of it for a while. Great excitement last night, when it looked as though there was going to be an extra meeting scheduled for Saturday...
read moreTuesday 12 January
It looks odds against us making the trip to Warwick at the weekend. They still have a blanket of snow, and according to one report that I read last night, if indeed the snow does receed, then the...
read moreMonday 11 January
The forecast tells us that it is gradually getting warmer through the week, so hopefully the snow should slowly subside and give us a chance of getting some jump racing back on. Jardin de Vienne is...
read moreFriday 8 January
No change in the weather - still horrible - best place for it is on Christmas Cards!! Really bad luck at Lingfield yesterday - all those folks who love the 'all weather' (not me I have to say)!! Were...
read moreThursday 7 January
No sign of a rise in temperatures, so everything very difficult, horse management really tricky - but everyone in the same boat, so just head down and march on!! The good news is that the results of...
read moreWednesday 6 January
I think that many local authorities should send their people to racing yards to see how to cope and get keep things moving during freeze ups such as this. These conditions are very testing for so...
read moreMonday 4 January
Jardin De Vienne is entered in Wincanton on Saturday, but it will need to get very much warmer, very quickly, as they had -7 last night and the course is frozen. Hard work has kept the horses on the...
read moreSaturday 2 January
The cold snap continues to wreak havoc with the racing fixtures, with Sandown off today and the big card at Cheltenham only just survuving 3 inspections yesterday. Unfortunately the ground was still...
read moreThursday 31 December
Happy New Year! Lots to look forward to in 2010 - the return of Kikos (running in March) along with Important Business and Mattaking after injury (Back at Fences in early March), and of course Bobby...
read moreThursday 24 December
Happy Christmas to everyone. Boxing Day will be busy for the folks at Fences Farm, Ogee will be running in the Feltham at Kempton, and I think he will run a big race - obviously Hendersons French...
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