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It might not sound the death knell but it's indicative of a trend...a dual-purpose course is (probably) to close and the response is to build a new AW track (within an hour's drive of an existing one) rather than a replacement dual purpose one. Just farm the NH fixtures out to anywhere, change...

Don Cossack retired.

We said the same, I think they swapped the colour of the label 'Jockey/Trainer' and the actual names as I'm sure last week the latter were in orange which made them hard to read, whereas they were in white this week. I thought it was an improvement on last week - a toned down and more relevant...

As the title is racehorse legends not British legends and on the assumption they're going to go down the "household name" rather than the "top RPR/most prizemoney won" route, I'll guess: Arkle Red Rum Desert Orchid Kauto Star Frankel Mill Reef Shergar Nijinsky reserving the right to...

Sad news. I know he had a lot of problems. He's at peace now, but gone far too young. What a horrible year this has been for deaths.

RUK apparently free to air on Dec 31st in response (according to a Nick Luck tweet).

Cracking race. Anyone who can watch that and not get goosebumps as those two top class 2 milers eyeballed each other over the last two fences must be dead from the neck up.

Le Reve out until spring at least after suffering a stress facture in his neck during that pile up at Cheltenham earlier this month.

Paul Hanagan has lost his job as first rider to Sheikh Hamdan.

Brendan Powell Jnr, Sean Mooney and Richard Condon arrested and bailed on suspicion of raping an 18yo girl.

I got a real shock when I saw this news. Gutting.

I'm sulking after having to give up my tickets. Enjoy yourselves, you lucky lot.

That's how I read it too. Found retired to the paddocks now. As a top-class daughter of Galileo, and with the enduring Cold War between Goldolphin and Coolmore (where otherwise the natural covering for her IMO would be Dubawi), I wonder who she'll go to. Fastnet Rock? Or will she be shipped...

Terrible news. Thoughts with Freddy and his family.

Interesting view. You'd need a fair few years-worth of stats to be sure it was a lasting change in climate rather than a statistical blip, before making such a far-reaching change. You could argue that a less radical way of dealing with the drier autumns would be for CoCs of jump courses to...

Ironically Ted Durcan sustained a worse injury than Jim Crowley, with a broken ankle. Fingers crossed for Freddy, hope he makes a full recovery.

Tickets now spoken for, thanks.

I've done a disc in my back and can't drive for the foreseeable so am not going to be able to make it to Cheltenham next month. I therefore have two Club tickets/badges for Saturday 12th November going begging. I'm just looking to get the face value of the tickets back so the pair are yours...

Special filly and some training performance to keep her on the boil for so long and over the range of distances.

The trainer and trainer's representative were found to have allowable substances but without permission on their persons in the racecourse stables. Horse to be routinely dope tested.