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I hadn’t realised the screens had gone up around him.

My last dog was very allergic to wasp stings so I’m assuming my current dog is, too. But the other year wasps started nesting in the wall at the back of my house. Couldn’t open any windows for fear of them coming into the house or finding their way in another way. So last year I put up a couple...

I was put off thinking that Irish National winners would go on to win the Aintree version after thinking that Point Barrow was a racing certainty (was it the first fence he fell at?) and even advised a work colleagues not to back Silver Birch ( she had a birch tree in her garden).

I think he pulled himself up didn’t he? Don’t think he should be allowed to run in the National and hope connections won’t. Not fair on horses that will attempt to run their race.

I’ve given the film another go. Instead of trying to understand what was happening I just decided to watch it as a visual spectacle ( and Timothy Chalamet is watchable in anything, even that aftershave advert he did was pretty good). Can’t say I would have enjoyed watching it at a cinema...

Just watched all four episodes of a documentary on BBC called 11 Minutes. It’s about the largest mass shooting that has ever happened in America, in Las Vegas in 2017. Not for the faint hearted I must point out but, like a lot of documentaries it draws you in. What I don’t understand is that I...

Do you think that, as a full sister to a Gold Cup winner they’ll now retire Limerick Lace and breed from her given that their mum has had quite a few foals?

Well, my Idas Boy is still in the race. Hadn’t noticed that he was 11, but I’m sure I’ve won with an 11 year old before. I like the look of Beauport, too. Having said that, the way his horses are running at the moment it might be worth backing anything that Gavin Cromwell runs. When Henry was...

I followed Angels Breath throughout his career and must have backed him every time he ran. Apart from, that is, when he actually won not long ago. I was so relieved to read that they think he’ll recover well enough to have a nice retirement.

I used to have The Observer every Sunday until its racing coverage was so miniscule I’d have to go through the sports section a couple of times to find it. They got rid of Eddie the Shoe whose Grand National tops were the stuff of legend. Mike used to get The Telegraph because their sports...

I’ve always thought the best horse wins the King George but the best horse on the day wins the Gold Cup. I still think that GDC is a remarkable creature, though. Then again, so is Hewick ( in my eyes, anyway).

That’s what I thought. I haven’t really looked at the list of runners till last night ( I always used to place my bets on entries day which is why I backed Mon Mome at 33/1 and not 100 darn it but my system for finding the winner went out the window years ago). It reminded me of looking at the...

I had a bet on Idas Boy last night at 100/1. Don’t know anything about him and I think it was just because his name reminded me of a horse called Idas Delight that used to race round Desert Orchids time and I always thought he was the sort of horse I’d love to own. Just looked him up and his...

What a weight carrying performance! Bradstock front runners are not for passing, are they.

Years ago I always used to back Alan Kings horses on a Saturday until a pundit on racing radio said that, statistically they didn’t do well so I stopped doing it. I noticed that his horses were running quite well at the moment so I’ve backed his outsider in the race under my system of ‘ why on...

I can’t pronounce it let alone think it. It sounds like an anagram of itself.

It’s my birthday on 1st January and I really don’t like it!

He was born 4 April 2018. Maths isn’t my strong point but doesn’t that mean he isn’t even 7 yet?

I’ve never got over thinking I’d found a long priced winner of the Triumph only to see poor Barizan lead for most of the race and be pipped at the post by Soldatino. I followed Barizan throughout his career right up to the point where I spoke to someone on Facebook who was going to give him a...