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There is one more piece of the jigsaw that still has to be put in place before Bobby Gee becomes an intended runner in Market Rasen at the weekend. He was scoped yesterday, and the scope was clean,...

It was good to see the horses get to do some work on Saturday. Ollie and Nick O'Neill were over to see Kikos do his first canters. Nick has recently purchased a share in Kikos, and Saturday was his...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...