Archive for the ‘Special features’ Category

Two year olds to follow – 2009

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 ...

Horses to follow 2009 flat season

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 ...

2008 2 year old review

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 ...

Horses to follow – 2008/9 jumps season

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 ...

Review of the flat season 2008

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 ...

Horses to follow – 2008/9 jumps season

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 ...

Horses to follow – 2008/9 jumps season

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 ...

Review of the 2007/8 Jumps season

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 ...

2008 Two Year Olds to Follow

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 ...

Flat 2008 – "On the dark side!"

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 ...