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 “set fair” come around like blue moons…
Kempton yesterday at dawn. To gallop a few. No time for the dull words to be written, but thank you to those who thought that because there were none I had fallen under a bus. Or a horsebox. Or a horse. Thankfully not…
Charlie Bishop and Sophie and Tess doing the steering. Galloped and done and dusted before some large horseboxes turned up. As busy as a race day. Lovely to catch up with Trevor Whelan. Whose road back from his horror fall last summer is arduous and rocky and long. Keep kicking mate…
Thomas Tuchel naming his England World Cup squad. A surprise or three. A squad filled with exhausted players who have been on the go for months. Physically and mentally washed out. Building themselves up for a major tournament in high summer must be hard for some. Surely there should be a better constructed and managed lead into a World Cup…??
It will be no surprise to see an early exit that is followed in the days after by gleeful footballers jumping off boats in St Tropez with their families…
Do other countries do this better ? I don’t know. But you can see the fatigue in the eyes and the legs of many. And Arsenal still have a pretty big match to come. About 10 days before the first ball is kicked in America…
No runners today…
Goodwood and Windsor double header tomorrow…
SLIP ANCHOR AND THE KENTUCKY KID….
