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Wasn't my first gig. I saw the Shadows at the same venue a few months before. In those days there were a whole series of acts on a bill and the lead act only played a few numbers. I've still got the programme for the Rolling Stones in Birmingham in 1965 and apart from the Stones the list of...

Del Shannon - Manchester Apollo 1962 Beach Boys - Birmingham 1966 Simon & Garfunkel - Birmingham 1967 Neil Young - Royal Festival Hall 1971 Byrds - Albert Hall 1971 Manassas (Steve Stills) - Rainbow 1972 Wings - Wembley Arena 1976 Eagles - Wembley Arena 1977 (Hotel California tour) Btuce...

1979 Gold Cup day was also my first experience of the Festival. To be fair, it's the coldest that I've ever been on a racecourse and it was so dark that the last race was only visible via monitors in the bar but that's hardly the fault of the racecourse. My next experience was for the whole...

Irish Racing covers the potential move to Wednesday- Saturday in a much more circumspect fashion. https://www.irishracing.com/news/Cheltenham--lsquo;nowhere-near-rsquo;-a-decision-on-Festival-scheduling-switch/260229

Very nice Paul. Well done.

I still have the Eclection album. According to wiki, the name Eclection was suggested by Joni Mitchell.

I've probably referenced before a concert at the Albert Hall a few weeks after I moved to London in 1970. The support act was Elton John but the headliners were a group called Fotheringay which was basically a vehicle for Sandy Denny organised by her boyfriend Trevor Lucas and featuring...

The term 'wind op' as used by the BHA covers a wide range of procedures and, as such, is virtually useless for statistical purposes. If they at least broke it down to categories where Cat A would be trivial and Cat B more serious serious, there might be some point but, as it is, we have palate...

Dartmouth's foals are all bays and mostly with no markings. The drawings for Annie's passport were a bugger to do because they had to do a deep search for whorls as the only markings. Peter from Shade Oak said she was a typical Darty. She came home on Friday and is in fine form and really happy...

An update on Annie. Connie went back to the stud in May and Annie, naturally, went with her. A few days after they came back she started to develop a slight club foot which the vet reckoned was caused by the tendon and bone growing at different rates. Over the weeks we've tried farrier solutions...

Was very much a hazard in the car park. I have two favourite memories of the track. Our Sam Shorrock won a 6 horse race at 66/1 to applause from the bookies and, on the theme of getting stuck, after a different race there my car was pushed from the mud by 2 Grand National winning jockeys in...

He did 1lb overweight at 10-2 a couple of weeks ago so he should be ok as long as he stays off the Guinness.

Race has split but Cotswold Cottage is declared in Div 1 with Powell aboard.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/05/nigel-farage-uses-private-company-to-pay-less-tax-on-gb-news-earnings

Well done again Slim. I don't generally go along with the logic of a 7lb claim meaning a horse is 'effectively running off 69' but. as you say, QR races are strange beasts and the riding ability/claim is usually more of a factor there. Thanks for the full preview.

It's attracted more coverage by mainstream media than all the blatherings in the Racing Post.

Well done again, Slim. I appreciate the proper case made even if, in this instance, I opted out. My choice, my loss.

Nice work again, Slim.

Nice work, Slim. I missed Passenger so I'm happy not to be the Jonah.

The trouble is that the BHA also desperately need to keep owners in the game and the huge majority of them have lower grade horses. These owners are in it for the experience rather than the money so there needs to be enough races to cater for them. People whinge about small fields for the top...