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Note that Special Portrait won a hunter at Ayr about this time last year (probably the corresponding race), has been aimed for this contest for a while now, and had the form of his January 29th Sheriff Hutton victory franked by the 3l second Harmony Brig going in at Overton on Sunday. Note...

I am the son of a box of Persil washing powder. He is my non-biological father. gc

November 19th, 2008. That was the evening of Geoff Wragg's last ever winner, the 9-1 shot Convallaria, but we were all too busy in the bar drawing up the shortlist of nominees for that year's TRF awards to accept the largesse. D'oh!! Paul Ostermeyer of ORS Racing was definitely with us, too...

My former athletics trainer is the wife of the singer out of Barclay James Harvest. I once tried to give directions to Roy Walker to a pub that doesn't exist - at least, not by the name he gave me, it doesn't. I also got £5 out of Bobby Ball during a Whit Walk tin collection. It was all...

Happy to help! gc

Genuine LOL. gc

If Larkhill (including the Coronation Cup), Tweseldown or Horseheath feature on your weekend intineraries at all, here is a good piece of advice about going to those places. The advice is - don't go to those places. They're all frozen solid. Racing is off at each. Tweseldown will not seek an...

This race? Cheltenham Result 14 Mar 1991 « 4:05 » Ritz Club National Hunt Handicap Chase (5yo+) 3m1f Good £29,589.00, £8,862.00, £4,256.00, £1,953.00 « 1 Seagram (NZ) 6/1 11 10-11 D H Barons 146 147 160 » ch g Balak - Llanah (NZ) (Bally Royal) N Hawke Always prominent, led after 3...

Arguably. The race in which the two old warriors perished was Vodkatini's first for three years and Door Latch's first in five, which does beggar the obvious question as to the wisdom of their pressing back into competitive action. The point to make, however, is that neither was being...

My honest answer would probably be none of them. There's busy racedays and then there's too-busy racedays, and the Festival falls too squarely into the latter category for this milquetoast. Besides which, some bugger has to cover the "away" meetings during Festival week, and I love doing...

As exasperating an animal as he was a gifted one, his last act on earth came in the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Hunt Members' race at Parham in March 1995. All of 16 years of age by then, he lined up against fellow former top-notcher Door Latch, one year older than him at 17...

Or porcine. Or asinine. Naughty humans, us. gc

Ah, you see we Pointing nerds use "dog" pejoratively at least as much as a verb, i.e. "Moustique De L'Isle dogged it completely" (which he did from from flagfall in Desert Tommy's race on Sunday). We're a quare and confusing breed. :-D gc

It's also Zome's birthday this week, if memory serves. And when I say "memory", I do of course mean Facebook. gc

Agree on all counts, bracketed and otherwise. Zoz and Zome frequented the racing threads there with elan, deep-rooted knowledge and frequently drop-dead hilarious outbursts, and the place is poorer without them. gc

I'm not entirely sure Patrick Smith got away scot free, Martin - my correspondent for that meeting noticed him with his arm / shoulder in a sling subsequently, owing to a suspected broken collarbone. I do hope worst fears turn out not to be confirmed, though, as he looks proper novice riders'...

I know her well - we're pals on Facebook and elsewhere! You've reminded me that I've not been on Atacanta since signing up for it. Note to self, etc. He failed to complete 34 times out of 103 (104 including his run in a Point), including five on the spin as an 11-year-old, compared to...

Them as are empowered to stop a horse from running will decide if and when entries for Ringsend Rose should cease to be taken, not us; and whatever her other failings, the one thing she isn't is a lethally incompetent threat to herself and others (which is my sole criterion for wanting to...

Elke Mader has brought hurdlers over here in the past, most notably the entire Halle Bopp, who won a Folkestone contest about a decade ago. She was also the original trainer of Lysander, who was subsequently a mainstay of the Ian Williams string before being bought as a Pointer a few months...

Given the catharsis that continuing to tend to racehorses, getting to meetings and being among people has continued to offer Aytach "Jeff" Sadik since his son and heir Cengiz "Gus" Sadik committed suicide in 2006, I absolutely cannot begrudge him the right to race Ringsend Rose or anything else...