Day: January 8, 2009

Diary: January 9 2009

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There seems some chance that racing may go ahead at Kelso tomorrow. There are two runners from my list to follow entered at the Borders track.

Cornerback runs in the 1.10 where Annie’s Answer looks the big danger. The well bred Cornerback is not without a chance and should come on for her run at Huntingdon. I am not sure that the odds of 11/4 in the RP look value though.

Knockara Beau represents my list in the 2.40. He has not yet been able to transfer his bumper form into performances over timber. I haven’t lost faith in him though and getting weight from Moscow Catch he may well be able to get off the mark over obstacles here.

Snow in the Suburbs

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Snow in the Suburbs

Every branch big with it,
Bent every twig with it;
Every fork like a white web-foot;
Every street and pavement mute:
Some flakes have lost their way, and grope back upward,
when Meeting those meandering down they turn and descend again.
The palings are glued together like a wall,
And there is no waft of wind with the fleecy fall.
A sparrow enters the tree,
Whereon immediately
A snow-lump thrice his own slight size
Descends on him and showers his head and eyes,
And overturns him, And near inurns him,
And lights on a nether twig, when its brush
Starts off a volley of other lodging lumps with a rush.
The steps are a blanched slope,
Up which, with feeble hope,
A black cat comes, wide-eyed and thin;
And we take him in.

Thomas Hardy