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Happy to oblige! It's astonishing how much Monkerty Tunkerty has improved since his days as a gifted but errant youngster with Bob and Ben Woodhouse, and one increasingly wonders whether the previous owner let him go a bit prematurely. Neither him nor Bradley would be lining up in the...

It's really shocked connections to the core, hasn't it, Jinny. The gentleman who covered Chipley in my absence caught up with Jackie and Nigel on the afternoon, and if I've understood him correctly they're still not really over it. Entirely understandable - the genesis of that Christmas card...

Aye, and it's worth reiterating that Monkerty Tunkerty's duffing over of Welsh Foxhunters winner Sericina at Wadebridge last time was entirely on merit - Jessica kicked on with just under a mile to go and just kept pouring it on to score on deteriorating ground in a commendable time (need to...

LOL. Aye, Clive and I have respectfully exchanged opposing views on Vic Reeves on another forum before! I maintain Reeves was a genius until about the late 1990s, whereupon he started to become the fat, jaded, unfocussed, repetitive, humourless Eurosceptic bore that prevails now. Ah well...

I poured the cat out some milk earlier. I've no idea how he got in there. - (c) 1991 Vic Reeves

Not previously mentioned on here is that popular Devon and Cornwall Area Pointer / hunter chaser WALTER DE WODELAND broke down irreparably at Black Forest Lodge a week last Sunday. This was a horrible reverse for the Jackie du Plessis / Nigel Edmonds operation which has been in excellent...

That looks a card of epic proportions but isn't too far removed from what some I'd spoken to a couple of weeks ago were expecting, given how many expressions of interest (and subsequently entries) had started to be taken even at a relatively early stage. Matt Coleman, who was in excellent form...

Splendid effort by all concerned with Marblehead - and by Marblehead himself, for proving as amenable as he did to a marked change of tactics over this longest ever trip. Fergal and Jelly O'Brien love aiming things at the Cheltenham May hunter chase meeting so much that I cannot believe the...

I'm guessing he'll have entered your orbit around the time he won that chase at Fontwell, did he? In the interim he's continued to carve out a reputation as a horse that will frequently outperform other better-rated Pointing rivals yet still prefer to see something finish ahead of him -...

Yep, I was sick as the proverbial chocolate frog about missing out. I've not been to many of the Devon & Cornwall Area courses yet, but Chippo would be my favourite by some margin. Wide open spaces (but with a grown-up attitude to letting the public populate the infield even so - other courses...

Indeed he didn't - my car essentially blew up outside of Taunton (so only 11 miles from Chipley) after the software controlling the radiator fan malfunctioned. Arsington Sodmonster. I did get to Larkhill the day before, though, and will be back there again in a week's time as part of a...

He has a son and daughter, if memory serves, and both have featured in his routine, i.e. "I've got an 18 month-old son... and to be honest we're both getting a bit sick of him now", etc. gc

Not half. Few TV stations will work with Frankie Boyle now - NONE WHATSOEVER have dared work with Jerry Sadowitz for a long time. The stuff that did get commissioned, such as BBC2's The Pall-Bearer's Revue was Sadowitz-lite, but even that was as pitch-black as you'll get to see on telly. Never...

If you're familiar with the big car boot sale that takes place in or around Overton farm many times each year, it's on the same site as that. The Pointing crowds are as big as the boot sales are at their biggest, and Willie and his helpers seem to cope with both pretty well, from what I've been...

Amen to that - I was on the verge of getting the .jpeg of the kittens out again. :) Cue Card enters the Arkle reckoning on the basis of course form, on having proven stamina above and beyond a bare two miles, and on the form of his Newbury win bearing close enough comparison with the best of...

What A Laugh is a credit to all concerned with him - Richard Davies-Cooke for keeping the faith in owning Pointers after previous attempts to didn't even get as far as the racetrack; and Gary Hanmer for continuing to grasp the nettle in finding opportunities for his early-season horses with two...

PS I'm off to Friars Haugh a fortnight on Sunday, so I'll let you know what it's like. Video evidence suggests it's not dissimilar to Kelso (a course barely two miles away on the other side of town), only with a more stunning backdrop of buildings and rivers - loose horses can end up paddling...

I think Overton would be the nearest to the part of Scotland you've mentioned, Mr Fist. This has only been in operation since 2004 but is a very well-regarded track (run by permit-holder Willie Young) which has brought some much-needed stability of location for a handful of local hunts. The...

Day one of the Yorkshire Area season for me this coming Sunday, with the YAPPC holding their annual meeting at the Sheriff Hutton course owned and run by the Easterbys. Every chance, as is often the case, that the David Easterby- and Cherry Coward-trained animals will dominate under whichever...

Oh bugger - no pressure, then! :eek: :D Martin - it's not the same as yours, for all that I will be having an investment in My Flora as well in the hope she can jump up and down hills as well as Cappa Bleu. That's proven in Pointing, but only really at Maiden level a couple of years ago now -...