KECKEROCKERNIXES….
Is what you say under your breath. When you are giving those around you the nod that they should be careful what they say…. Live and learn eh….?? I learned yesterday. From my mate [...]
A GENTLER DAWN…
Warmth in the early hours, but not the raging heat of the past few days… Change is in the wind. Variable weather patterns and the Gulf stream doing Gulf stream stuff… Driving over The Downs [...]
ONLY….
High twenties… Only…?! Marginally cooler which is definitely good news for boys and girls and horses that are about to gallop… A gallops morning here at Epsom yesterday for a [...]
THOSE WEATHER GODS…??!!
Sublime. Ridiculous. Frost in May. Hottest ever recorded May temperatures…. Derby week. Next week. I hardly dare peep around the corner to see whether the weather will play ball. Monday, [...]
LATE…
Blog… Because I have had a very long, languid and lazy lie-in… I wish… Horses out and cantered and washed down and cooled off before the full heat of the day… “The [...]
HOTTER THAN HANOI….
“Good morning Epsom…..” Heat haze at Tattenham Corner. You can write The Sun headline – “Phew what a Scorcher.” The blue moon and a heat wave coming together [...]
HEAT….
Wave… Stay hydrated. Drink responsibly. Splash on the sun screen… From the ridiculous of windscreen scraping ice to the sublime of midsummer…. Bank Holiday weekends and [...]
“NEVER IN DOUBT….”
Six to one on…. Buying money. Hope you lumped on. Never in doubt… Arsenal are the Premier League Champions. Relief the overriding emotion for many Gunners fans who have had to deal [...]
GOING, GOING….
Gone… Variables and vagaries and Weather Gods playing silly buggers… Meaning that the job of being a Clerk of the Course is often a thankless and tough gig. Weather Apps that tell [...]
NOT WINDSCREEN….
Scrapingly cold. But not many degrees away… Crisp and clear and bright and ice in the wind. Busy mowers on The Downs. Watering at Tattenham Corner. A dawn jogger. High trails in the sky as [...]
