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A glorious frosty morning, I really enjoy mornings like these, but let's hope it does not get too bad and we start to get too many meetings frozen off!! Otherwise it will be awful all weather fare for...

A bit of welcome rain this morning meant that Troglodyte could take his chance at Towcester. 3 miles and stiff uphill finish should have been right up his alley, and with the rain, the ground was just...

This is not a slight on the lovely people of the Principality, but more of a description of what happened to Important Business at Chepstow! The morning started well, it was bright and a bit chilly,...

IB is declared to run at Chepstow tomorrow. He goes in the £23,000 Pertemps Handicap Hurdle, a competitive 12 runner affair, and Tom Siddall rides, as Sam goes to Aintree. On paper it is a tough...

Quiet times at Fences Farm, all is well, Rousing Rob has had an injection to the back of his knee and will be on the walker for a few days, but apart from that everyone is in good form. On the 12...

Mattaking will now have his winter holidays. He has come out of his race well, and will go to winter quarters before we have to clip him, and therefore will be more comfortable and warm as his winter...

Matty at Plumpton, and I really thought it would suit him, but yet again he confounds me. Travelling and jumping beautifully through the race he was leading turning for home, but as soon as the...

Michael Kehoe was my Sunday driver as we headed off to Herefordshire to pick up the Classic Cliche gelding I have purchased to go Point to Pointing. We arrived just in time for Sunday Lunch and had a...

Pride and Joy were orders of the day. Firstly Joy - it was a great morning on the gallops, and all worked well, Mattaking went first lot and went well, he will be declared for Plumpton on Monday, lets...

The form of Important Business' last outing took a significant boost yesterday when Archimboldo who finished third at Uttoxeter, went and absolutely bolted up at Ludlow, I have rarely seen a easier...