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The weather for Thursday and Friday looks pretty stormy so potential travel problems for the Irish entries.

I suppose that it's hard to appreciate if you haven't been in that position. There is a difference between flat and NH racing in that 95% of flat action is in the final 2 furlongs which are clearly visible from the stands. Most of the NH action occurs over half a mile away from the spectator in...

IMO horse racing is about the horses but if you didn't have the people (owners) you wouldn't have the horses or the betting and ITV wouldn't have a vehicle to help sell Lenor Unstoppables.

Many owners watch races from the parade ring at courses like Cheltenham because you get a better view of the race than from the stands and you don't have to push your way through the hoi polloi to greet your horse back in the winners enclosure.

From 74 to 94 I lived in North Wembley, Northwood Hills and St Albans so I was well placed for Wembley gigs although I never did one at the stadium. Likewise, for 6 months in 70/71 we had a flat opposite Highbury stadium which was a handy 20 minute stroll from the Rainbow in Finsbury Park...

Wasn't my first gig. I saw the Shadows at the same venue a few months before. In those days there were a whole series of acts on a bill and the lead act only played a few numbers. I've still got the programme for the Rolling Stones in Birmingham in 1965 and apart from the Stones the list of...

Del Shannon - Manchester Apollo 1962 Beach Boys - Birmingham 1966 Simon & Garfunkel - Birmingham 1967 Neil Young - Royal Festival Hall 1971 Byrds - Albert Hall 1971 Manassas (Steve Stills) - Rainbow 1972 Wings - Wembley Arena 1976 Eagles - Wembley Arena 1977 (Hotel California tour) Btuce...

1979 Gold Cup day was also my first experience of the Festival. To be fair, it's the coldest that I've ever been on a racecourse and it was so dark that the last race was only visible via monitors in the bar but that's hardly the fault of the racecourse. My next experience was for the whole...

Irish Racing covers the potential move to Wednesday- Saturday in a much more circumspect fashion. https://www.irishracing.com/news/Cheltenham--lsquo;nowhere-near-rsquo;-a-decision-on-Festival-scheduling-switch/260229

Very nice Paul. Well done.

I still have the Eclection album. According to wiki, the name Eclection was suggested by Joni Mitchell.

I've probably referenced before a concert at the Albert Hall a few weeks after I moved to London in 1970. The support act was Elton John but the headliners were a group called Fotheringay which was basically a vehicle for Sandy Denny organised by her boyfriend Trevor Lucas and featuring...

The term 'wind op' as used by the BHA covers a wide range of procedures and, as such, is virtually useless for statistical purposes. If they at least broke it down to categories where Cat A would be trivial and Cat B more serious serious, there might be some point but, as it is, we have palate...

Dartmouth's foals are all bays and mostly with no markings. The drawings for Annie's passport were a bugger to do because they had to do a deep search for whorls as the only markings. Peter from Shade Oak said she was a typical Darty. She came home on Friday and is in fine form and really happy...

An update on Annie. Connie went back to the stud in May and Annie, naturally, went with her. A few days after they came back she started to develop a slight club foot which the vet reckoned was caused by the tendon and bone growing at different rates. Over the weeks we've tried farrier solutions...

Was very much a hazard in the car park. I have two favourite memories of the track. Our Sam Shorrock won a 6 horse race at 66/1 to applause from the bookies and, on the theme of getting stuck, after a different race there my car was pushed from the mud by 2 Grand National winning jockeys in...

He did 1lb overweight at 10-2 a couple of weeks ago so he should be ok as long as he stays off the Guinness.

Race has split but Cotswold Cottage is declared in Div 1 with Powell aboard.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/05/nigel-farage-uses-private-company-to-pay-less-tax-on-gb-news-earnings

It's attracted more coverage by mainstream media than all the blatherings in the Racing Post.