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I backed Neo King in running. I did ( aftertiming alert) back the winner but that doesn’t count because I have far too many bets in races like this, which is why I rarely put them up. Painful, that. Did back Marble Sands in running too, though. Betting in running is too time consuming but I...

I loved seeing a Hobbs horse win at Cheltenham. Such great memories of his horses running there in the days when we used to go there.

Had I studied it properly I would have also read that it was disqualified after winning on the flat in heavy going because of a banned substance!

Yes. I noticed that it had won on heavy.

Just backed Lavender Hill Mob at the last minute after reading the write up on the race card and thought he was better than his price suggested. And wasn’t even concentrating on the race in running. I needed that!

I’ve got lots of hardback books, many of which I’ve never actually read. I’ve just obsessively bought racing books for decades. I do love them but I’ve got to an age where I have to think about clearing them out. I’d hate the thought of my daughter just throwing them out. The only one that I...

I was going to make a point of backing front runners with the current soft going everywhere and I like backing horses that have been off the track for a long time so I’ll definitely put my three pennies on that one!

The episodes with Robert Carlisle really stick in the memory, don’t they. Much as catchup tv is great I do sometimes miss looking forward to watching a programme when it’s on ( although I did record just about everything back then and have hundreds of videos to prove it; no Cracker though so I...

I used to read Hugh McIlvanneys articles when he wrote for The Observer and I’ve got his book on boxing. I stopped buying the Observer when their racing section got so small it used to take me several attempts to find it and they also dispensed with Eddie the Shoe who was great at finding the...

Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time, joins John and Andy for a tour of Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, the sixteenth-century fable widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written, newly translated by Julia Lovell. The Monkey King's powers...

Loved that series! ( it was on at teatime on Fridays!)

Isn’t part of the enjoyment of betting having to work out, without inside information, when a horse is going to win? Although I’m saying that as someone who only bets in pennies!

Thus far I’ve backed Valiant King, Onesmoothoperator( because I’d hate not to be cheering him on at the finish if he was going well) Chevalier Rose ( no hoper but drawn 5 which is a good draw and had been a good horse at one time) and Royal Supremacy ( probably won’t stay). I have a Willie...

Looking at his race record I assume it was the race that he won last year. This is a cruel game at times. RIP

Knife through butter. Unbelievable.

I had 5 pence ew on Scylla! One of the American commentators said how speedy she was.

Just turned on W Hill racing radio for the Breeders Cup and they tipped Winter Crown 33/1 at Newcastle; I just had time to put my pennies on before it won!

Damn. I was going to back Balantina but she was bucking on the way down to the start and it put me off.

Last time we were there we were saved from being mown down by a loose horse that had found a gap in the railings by Tony Dobbin.