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Calling… The Breeze Up sales at Goffs. Doncaster Racecourse. Breeze today, sell tomorrow… A flying machine or three in the catalogue. But also several who will struggle to raise a [...]

On Saturday. Good to be racing. After a hiccup or three, and a bug in the Brighton grass… Sunshine and an excellent card attracted a healthy crowd. I still hanker after the old stands and [...]

Requires hours of poring through several programme books, discussions with owners, weather apps aplenty, calls with jockeys agents and clerks of the course… Never an exact science – [...]

Larvae…. “Reaching up to 3cm long with thick leathery skin….” They sound pretty unpleasant little critters. They can, apparently, wreak havoc with your lawn. Voracious [...]

Time of year… In many respects. Green shoots, brighter dawns, hope springs… Classic clues aplenty at this time of year. Or not ?! Some years, there is clarity and very obvious [...]

There is opportunity… A mantra drummed into me by a great financier friend… We certainly sit in disruptive times. A fragile ceasefire that could tip one way or the other. The IMF [...]

Bright blue skies and a low red sun. Driving in. Light and bright is a million times better than those bleak black midwinter mornings before dawn has even thought of creeping over the [...]

Will out… Max. And Mc…. I Am Maximus and Rory McIlroy. Two superb winners of iconic events over the weekend… The Grand National winner etching his name beside the great winners. [...]

“Not what it was like in my day…..” Times change. Opinions too. So be it… But it’s not hard to see why the great race is no longer the jumping test of the [...]

Aintree and Augusta… Day One at both “green and pleasant” venues providing the highest drama… I guess that I’m unlikely to get an invitation to head up Magnolia [...]