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This month's Pegasus magazine runs the following ad: Testimony Films is producing a new documentary for Ch.4 exploring the role of real warhorses during WWI. We are making a film that explores true stories of British horses sent to the front line. The British govt. requisitioned nearly half...

Seems to be rising tension over the little Falklands again, although Argentina says it's ruling out another show of force at a time when the UK begins oil exploration on the islands. Are we likely to have to commit a long-term seaborne force in order to keep protecting this little outpost? I...

I don't see our equine heroes being heralded anywhere else on the site, so here are the winners from the end-of-year big bash: Outstanding Novice Hurdler: ZARKANDAR Racecourse of the Year: NEWBURY Outstanding Hunter Chaser: BABY RUN Outstanding Hurdler: BIG BUCK'S Outstanding...

May I wish you all a very happy (Chinese) New Year. It's the Year of the Dragon, which is a symbol of power and strength, which some of us could use after the past financially feeble years! Have a good one, folks.

I've just seen a trailer on Ch.4 for "Party Paramedics", which promises to show paras dealing with falling-down, puking, gobby binge drinkers. It ends with one of the paras saying, "We don't pass judgment." There's been a lot made of not passing judgment/not being judgmental in the past...

Thought we might kick off the new year with a separate thread, if that's okay? As noted on the old thread, January 1st saw a half-sister arrive to NATIVE KHAN. No problem remembering that birthday, then. And now, fearlessly culled from the pages of January's edition of TB Owner & Breeder...

I'm told by someone I've likely got a software problem with my laptop. Just as I typed the 'e' in "I've", the e shot back and stuck itself after the 'I' in I'm - and it also hangs a couple of times in quick succession every now and then. What I have is a recon Samsung laptop with Windows XP (I...

Two beauties from tv today. First, Simon Mapletoft at Southwell. "Gelding was a revelation for this horse... " I bet it bloody was! (Simon, I think you meant the horse has been a revelation since being gelded.) This evening, on River Monsters, when "extreme angler" Jeremy Wade got excited...

News just in that it's lost its grandstand roof in the wild winds!

Dear forumites, may I wish all of you a much, much better year if you've had a crappy one in 2011, and just more of the same if yours has been okay, thank you. Good luck with everything you do!

Well, some cities of the world, that is. I love this site - currently watching the crowds in Vienna cruising round a huge Christmas market - with its live streaming camera shots of loads of fascinating cities. Anyone interested in seeing what's going on in Lucerne, or Salzburg, Port Elizabeth...

Anyone interested in knowing the latest on the billionaire bros business background, go to http://www.reubenbrothers.com for an oversight of their investment and development portfolios in the UK, Singapore, and elsewhere. The brothers have put in an undisclosed bid for Arena Leisure and, as of...

I wonder if any of the forum's superb techies could help me out here, please? A friend of mine said that, when I got my laptop, she'd take me off the outdated ntl e-mail and put me onto what she uses, AOL. She fiddled about for a while and then said she'd done it. However, I still get emails...

Happy festive season, everyone. May I wish all of you - yes, really! - a great time, whatever you do and whoever you do it with. Let's hear some good Christmas stories after the event, and how y'all did with the Boxing Day punting - for those of you capable of moving after the Big Blow-Out...

Watching the showjumping on Beeb 2, and a horse has appeared wearing a wide strip stuck over its nose to assist its breathing, like an enlarged version of the strips used by some athletes. It's probably old hat to Trudi, but it's new to me, and I'm wondering whether these could be used in racing?

Seven races for tomorrow at the Sussex track, with CUE CARD appearing at 1.00 pm. Just had an email update on conditions, for those of you interested in punting any runners: Last night was dry with a light leaf frost only. Today and overnight dry, with rain forecast for some time Monday...

.... or dragged through the streets on a hurdle, to be given a public de-bagging and covered in treacle and feathers... I nominate Barry Cash for his abysmal treatment of MULL ON THE RUN in the 12.35 Beginner's Chase at Thurles on the 24th. The horse is reported as always in rear (true), never...

You can now download the 2012 Fixtures List from the ROA's website. The BHA has seriously held up sales for the IJF's diaries and calendars with its fruitless pursuit of more prize money from the bookmakers' levy, thus managing to shoot itself in the foot that wasn't already mangled by its...

I'm having a chuck-out, so if anyone would like Goodwood's 28th July card featuring the Group 2's King George Stakes and Goodwood Cup, let me know, and off it goes to you.

Surely to God someone's got to be first with these? I know Plumpton's already advertising theirs, although the guests are still TBA. Can't we start the unbearably long countdown to the Festival now? :D