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Grey clouds scudding across a colourless sky above the Grandstand as I headed over the Downs just now. Blustery. Damp. Bleak… November bleak. Which is no surprise given the time of [...]

Stopped by a horse race. Literally. Sweepstakes and “Calcuttas” across shop and factory floors. Across all floors…. I read somewhere recently that over 50% of Australians will [...]

Creeps darkly in…. Midwinter pitch black when that annoying alarm sounds… Thinly veiled “look at how early I get up”… Up early tomorrow morning for sure. The first [...]

To look….?? The Breeders Cup in Del Mar. The Melbourne Carnival. Some decent racing here over the weekend….. California dreaming for some. Aidan became the leading Breeders Cup [...]

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 [...]