Beginning to feel like a better option than Test Match Special when I wake up…
Turning my radio on in West Sussex seems to coincide with either a collapse of English wickets or a frenzy of Australian runs. Better to listen to reports of high gales on high seas. Less stressful – but I guess not for those challenged by those high seas. For those in peril…
Yesterday – and a masterclass from Joe Rooooooooot…….
There was never really a monkey on his back – but the whole of Australia had created a Giant Ape and stuck it firmly onto Joe’s shoulders. A deft touch down to Long Leg, and the monkey was back in Brisbane Zoo…
Waking this morning to “English heads are down”…..
Travis Head dropped on 3. Pivotal ? Series defining ? “Jamie Smith, how does it feel to have dropped The Ashes….?”
Sport is brilliant and life defining and huge fun and utterly exhausting. And agony…
The “agonies” of our sport proved too much for a talented young trainer in Alice Haynes. Whose rise has been pretty meteoric, but who is walking away from the job she adores. Citing the financial
pressures and iniquities of a flawed funding model, and the crippling rise in the cost of everything…
Those of us charged with providing feed and water and love and welfare to animals have no option other than to ride with the increased costs of everything. Hard to pass everything onto owners whose horses are often running around for those chocolate cakes and rosettes…
When the going gets tough I guess….
Alice is not the first to make the hardest call, and she won’t be the last. But every single business in the land is operating in a tough economic theatre – well, not “every single”, but certainly plenty…
We will keep bloody kicking, and find the horses that will define. And which will take us to all the right places in the years ahead…
Talking of which, the Bahrain bus is revving up its engine…
A week tomorrow, this season’s “Bahrain Four” will be wheels up and headed East….
STOP PRESS – Head out….
