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At BHA Towers. No revolving door. No white or black smoke. No papal intervention… Which means the following… The Board still cannot decide whether to major on the Coronation Chicken [...]

Or even black smoke. Or any smoke at all coming out of BHA Towers… No news. Is good news ? Or simply a matter of time before Lord Allen heads off to calmer waters with bulging pockets and [...]

“Lord Allen’s future as BHA Chair in the balance ahead of crunch Wednesday evening Board Meeting….” A very real chance that our sport will head into the denouement of the [...]

And just over four hours… Until that first pint of Guinness… We will have dropped down off Cleeve Hill. Praying that an over enthusiastic and zealous policeman will not have halted [...]

Rolled around the rafters of Twickenham on Saturday afternoon. Irish jigs aplenty… England’s sweet chariot rooted to the spot… Tallulah and I picked it up early. After the [...]

There are moments in sport…. KP, JPR Williams, Flintoff and Botham, Stan Bowles, George Best, Muhammad Ali, Tiger, Lester, Federer, Red Rum and Desert Orchid…. Moments that stick hard [...]

Sky. On that eastern horizon. Shepherds, be warned… But colour in the east is a whole heap better than the pitch black. We are getting there, tiptoeing our way to brighter dawns. And pretty [...]

The day….. Tomorrow morning (well, this morning when you read this…), we will be on the early and dark road to Kempton. To gallop a couple shortly after dawn. Ahead of that M25 [...]

Of the “refresh” button…. Up and down the land. And especially at Seven Barrows. The Racing Admin site has “declarations tracking” – a useful tool as the [...]

“Of the less bad days of this week…..” An apologetic Weather Forecaster on the radio just now. Not entirely his fault… What is becoming fabulously noticeable is the light [...]