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Col, I hope this isn't breaking forum rules. If it is, please delete. We have one or two shares available in a lovely young novice hurdler down my yard. His name is BOOM TO BUST, he's a lovely big, dark brown 17hh 4yo gelding by Big Bad Bob out of a Shareef Dancer mare. He was bought out of Ger...

Word is that Peter Toole isn't in a great condition following his fall at Aintree today. A lot of jockeys on Twitter asking for prayers for him and Cornelius Lysaght reporting doctors say he is in critical condition whilst Whitcoombe House (Charlie Mann's yard) add that he is being kept sedated...

Time for a moan about the Racing Post website - it's a bloody con. I've just clicked on FIVE new stories in a row and been told they're viewable only by members of their member's club. I'm particularly pissed off having just forked out £2 for the bloody paper - I'm not paying more to use their...

Poor bastard hasn't had much luck with injuries these last few seasons, wishing him all the best and hope his operation goes well. Mark is a great lad and very much an under-rated jockey being a horseman who will carry out instructions to the letter, as well as give a decent opinion after...

I see the ground is officially being given as of Wednesday as soft, good to soft in places on the hurdles course and good to soft, soft in places on the chase course. Personally I'd advise to take it as being at least that soft, if not slower as we have had a ton of rain in the past few weeks...

Marvellous - according to the RP, the BHA has sanctioned plans to allow jumps tracks to stage eight race cards (rather than the maximum seven it is/was) in an attempt to 'boost turnover'. That'll do the ground a lot of good, won't it?! Eight races run on winter ground in races that often...

A gratuitous opportunity to post this up again : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYVJSOFZxDE It just happened to play on my ipod yesterday which made me grin! (I have it on shuffle songs)

A mate of mine invited me to join one of these sometimes interminable groups on Facebook - however this one made sense. As someone who rides racehorses out on a daily basis and as such suffers the odd fall, I have worried in the past about what would happen were I to be knocked out and have...

I rarely bet with this ridiculous firm anymore, I've just been reminded why. Ask for a £2 ew trixie for the Cheltenham Festival and the tossers tell me I can only have a 75p ew trixie, please wait whilst this bet is referred to a trader to see if you can have more than your max. So I wait -...

The Betfair forum has finally been overhauled. It cannot hold a candle to the downright moronic comments that are posted in the new Racing Post 'comments' feature at the bottom of each news article. If you need cheering up, have a look at the comments posted after an article - they're...

The latest brainwave from Kempton ~ if tomorrow's meeting has to be abandoned, we'll have a go at staging it on Saturday! Erm, what about Newbury?? [if it's on?] What about organising staff - from the racecourse staff to the bookmakers to the various affiliated organisations who have to send...

I'd be interested to know what the legalities are surrounding banned [or even current] members and continuing anti-social behaviour. I mainly say banned members since it is a given that they have transgressed rules severely enough to earn a ban in the first place so any attempts at continuation...

Paddy Power have decided to pay out on Master Minded in the Queen Mother already - only two months early! Obviously you could argue that there isn't a lot to beat him but the animal's got to get to Cheltenham in one piece yet, two months is a long time when you're trying to keep a horse sound...

So, the latest scandal regarding the Royal Family is that Prince Charles is a rascist who calls his asian friend Sooty. The tiny fact that this is a nickname that this guy is known by, and often referred to by many of his friends which he is quite happy with, appears to be wholly irrelevant...

Empty yer PM box, there's a good man!!! :D

Interesting the little paddy Nicholls threw in Racing Post about Cerium being entered in the Gold Cup for Fergus Wilson - he thinks the horse shouldn't be allowed to run. That's quite aside from the fact that the horse is more than qualified to run, being rated 139 (minimum rating for entry...

The brass neck of foreign cold callers amazes me. Phonecall received this evening : - hello, can I speak to Mrs Whodjamaflip? - you'll struggle, she hasn't lived here in 8 years - so I assume you have control of paying the phonebill? - no I don't, he's out at the moment - well...

Apologies if this is seen as spam - it's really in a good cause. A good friend of a friend of mine was a promising event rider before a freak accident in 2007 which has left her paralysed. An A5 diary is being sold to raise some money for her in her campaign to get walking again; the details...

....empty your PM inbox!!!!! :D

Whose idea was it to invent this breed of neo-Nazis? What is it with them - a car breaks down on the hard shoulder and they feel that they have to close one or more lanes on the motorway for hours and hours - to whose benefit?? Other than their own, that is - I've no doubt most of them are power...