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On which side you are on, radars are either there to protect or to sneak under… This has been a long week of the latter for us… The doorstop catalogue. The shiny needles. Ripping that [...]

Day 2 of searching for those shiny needles… THINTHREAD from Day One, GORDON GREY added to the team yesterday evening. By “evening”, I mean nearly the wee small hours before the [...]

Needles in Haystacks are, allegedly, hard to find. Never tried. A fun filled option one afternoon…?? Gems amongst the Tattersalls “Horses In Training” catalogue are similarly [...]

A3, M25, A1 – then that cross country bit past Royston and Baldock… Road trips are fine provided that there are not loads of people with the same idea… With more and more clever [...]

There has been a bit of blog platform “hiatus” in recent times as our long term “host” Typepad has drifted off into the ether… Meaning that there has been a bit of a [...]

Calling…. Again. Last night. A Racing Dinner in St James’s. Listening to some old bore drone on…. Anyway, enough about me… Early start to beat those early birds who clog [...]

Not a lot that we can do about it. But we are certainly very good at talking about it… “Biblical” out there. Again. Storm Benjamin following Storm Amy. Named by French [...]

Streams on the cusp of becoming raging rivers… A lot of rain bouncing off firm ground. Puddles turning to floods in minutes. Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening…. Calmer [...]

The Racing Post’s Sunday headline. Looking back on a remarkable day’s sport at Ascot… “Everything” for some – a long way from “everything” for [...]

Ascot. Superb racing. Champions crowned… And a joy and relief for all involved that today’s meeting takes place on genuine good ground. As opposed to the rain sodden going of some [...]