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Heh-heh, no kidding. And he won't mind us saying as much! :D Jeremy (graysonscolumn)

Gulp - hope that wasn't last season's 11-runner meeting you went to, was it? The field sizes can be a bit on the thin side (even if there's quality among them) as the toughness and length of the course puts off many, but that Easter fixture was absolutely without precedent in that neck of the...

They probably did so in the bounden belief that, low-40s rated or not, there was still some ability to work with; and that the horse's plummet from a mark of 90 inside of two years had been significantly (wholly?) due to the trainer. Even by his variable standards, 2010 was a truly desperate...

Dorian Lynskey's piece is actually a very well-measured one - mindful, throughout, of certain elements of the left to resort to sledgehammer polemic and deftly avoiding any temptation to follow suit. Lynskey is hardly extolling Ms Abbott as some unalloyed paragon of virtue, either - racist...

I'm not sure a BBC which employs the likes of Jeremy Clarkson and Nick Robinson (and until recent times Jeff Randall also) can be thought of as a BBC that has drummed right-wing thought and thinkers entirely off its roster. There's light and shade there yet, if sought out. gc

I'm bound to say I've got a soft spot for Hackwood Park, as for all its limitations it's an incalculably friendly place and my working relationship with the good folk there has been the strongest of any I've ever forged at a Pointing venue. Such a shame I'm going to struggle to get to either...

Ah, oops! My bad, as I believe the young people say nowadays. :-D gc

From the 2010 Annual, the last in which he appeared: "Can show speed, but has a habit of ignoring the fences, and does not look willing when push comes to shove". That could have been a whole lot more barbed, especially considering he had a Mackenzie and Harris long handicap rating of 8-0...

Correct - Cossack Dancer fell at the 12th and wiped him out, so Bucks Bond absolutely cannot be blamed for his exit yesterday. He remains a really taking prospect if none the worse for the experience. Jeremy (graysonscolumn)

You do have to pick and choose your way through the courses in East Anglia, Martin. Cottenham is, as you rightly say, a good place to get a stack on - especially those early, pre-Christmas meetings where touches are attempted by connections of horses believed race-fit despite the lack (in many...

Bet that'll up his asking price now if James Young is tempted to try selling him once again - dispatching the biggest field to line up in a single Pointing race since day one of the PPORC fixture at Barbury exactly three years earlier! That win was good reward for Young and his staff, who have...

This will be the target for him, I'm advised by my correspondent on the track yesterday, assuming they can secure another win with him in time. Do note, however, that he won this in receipt of 7lb from the apparently more exposed (in this sphere) Mustangsallyrally, so the hope has to be the...

Nearly - he won the Lord Ashton Of Hyde (4m, and the season's first "Classic") at Dunthrop last year. The race over 3m5f on the same card is the ladies open, which I'm insistent should be the next port of call for Gidam Gidam - few other ladies opens on the calendar are going to represent...

I think that was due to the weight each horse was put in at for that claiming race. Excluding riders' claims, overweight, etc., Ebraam got a racing weight of 8-11 for having been put in for £12,000, whilst The Magic Of Rio got a weight of 8-4 for having been put in for £10,000. I notice...

http://33revolutionsperminute.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/racism-vs-racism-why-diane-abbott-was-right/ gc

:lol: Belated many happy returns, Mrs Hat. See you and Mike trackside again sometime soon? gc x

Sad to report a couple of losses from the Pointing ranks over the turn of the New Year, and neither in racing incidents, at that. Nile Moon, the former Howard Johnson and Ann Hamilton inmate who scored three victories last spring for Lucy Sutcliffe (culminating in the novice riders'...

Sad to report a couple of losses from the Pointing ranks over the turn of the New Year, and neither in racing incidents, at that. Nile Moon, the former Howard Johnson and Ann Hamilton inmate who scored three victories last spring for Lucy Sutcliffe (culminating in the novice riders'...

...which may or may not have prevented him from doing any better than fourth in division one of the short maiden at Cottenham on Saturday, though perhaps in mitigation this time Accessallareas had already stretched the field beyond repair from quite some way out. I'd need to see a replay...

...Accessallareas also becoming, of course, yet another subsequent winner from that divided maiden on day two of the Barbury meeting (division two of which produced its third subsequent winner alone in the form of Simply Game at Ideford Arch on Tuesday). Some early-season fixtures simply...