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Sunday, May 17th, 2009
I was pleased with the performance of last year’s selections. Of those that have run, over 50% have won at least once either as juveniles or in the early part of their 3 year old campaign. Notable successes have been Green Agenda with ...
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Here is the list of horses I will be following over the 2009 flat season. As usual the list is large as I feel it helps to have a ‘core’ of horses to keep an eye on. I will be monitoring the fortunes of this ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
This is not a record of the top so many juveniles of 2008 but a look back at the 2 year olds that featured on my web site during the season. For no particularly good reason I am going to start with a William Jarvis 2 year ...
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Here is the main list of horses I will be following over the 2008/9 jumps season. As usual the list is large as I feel it helps to have a ‘core’ of horses to keep an eye on. I will be monitoring the fortunes of this “stable” over ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Review of the flat season 2008 { All illustrations are by kind permission of the artist Karen Davies} By way of a change this time around I decided to set out my review in an A to Z format. So here goes! A is ...
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Here is the main list of horses I will be following over the 2008/9 jumps season. As usual the list is large as I feel it helps to have a ‘core’ of horses to keep an eye on. I will be monitoring the fortunes of ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Here is the main list of horses I will be following over the 2008/9 jumps season. As usual the list is large as I feel it helps to have a ‘core’ of horses to keep an eye on. I will be monitoring the fortunes of ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
The jumps review this year will be an illustrated version! My thanks to Tracy Roberts of Turfpix for the use of her extensive portfolio of racing photographs and to equestrian artist Lisa Miller for allowing me to use copies of her prints. The 2008 Cheltenham festival must ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Two Year Olds to Follow Only rabbits proliferate more than horses to follow guides to the flat these days. No bad thing of course on the basis that the more information we have the merrier we will be. There are not so many that concentrate on the latest crop ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
This is a list of horses that I will be featuring in my daily racing diary during the flat season. They are mainly unraced or lightly raced 3 year olds together with a few older horses that look well handicapped. Aflaam 3 ...
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