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Firstly, it is not too late to sign up for our National Racehorse Week open day, on Saturday 14th September. There will be all sorts of horse activities going on during the morning, plus a charity raffle in aid of MIND and ROR. Refreshments in the form of hot food and hot or cold drinks…
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Hello all. I slightly delayed my work on the August blog, because I was tipped off that there was some big news to come in the horse world. Nothing Olympic (side thought – why do the riders and not the horses get gold medals?). Nor was it that Ripon was living up to a Yorkshire…
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Yes, indeed. Sir Frank Worrell was born on 1st August 1924. This is topical, at a stretch, because there is no record of him ever having trouble with his shoes, but our notable runner of the last couple of weeks, VILLEURBANNE, most definitely has done so. His comeback was after a year off, and he…
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We expected to be busier than normal on the flat at this time of year, but a couple of runners have been working off minor niggles and a couple went over to Ben Brain’s for wind treatment, and it has not been the peak as expected. Special mention goes to Villeurbanne, who was three days…
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After a spell of unrelenting positivity since I took over the blog, things have gone a bit off of the rails this month. Firstly, I did not get to vote in the election. I presume my postal voting card went astray. We horses are not committed voters and any time the candidate list exceeds four…
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June 13th – Inventor’s Day in Hungary. And that is not a made up fact. A limited amount of racecourse action has taken place of late. Normally it is even quieter by his time of year, but we have a few able to have a spin on the flat this summer, and the rash of…
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Hello readers. What a fine few weeks it has been. The weather marginally improved and I have been recuperating from my operation. That part of the process, when I am able to go out in the field and do some decent horse sort of stuff, but without the nuisance of being in full training, is…
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It turns out that Eklil is actually Arabic for “corona.” For some reason the phrase that runs through my mind is “every bubble’s passed it fizzical” but I have no idea why that should be. I do also have an irresistible urge for a bottle of cherryade. Only had the one run since the last…
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The horses had been a bit quiet lately, hence the lack of anything of significance to update, but they started to emerge from the doldrums last week. BE FAIR ran a really good race on the flat at Chelmsford, only to be hampered at a critical part of the race. One of those “drat!” moments,…
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The main news is to note that we have a new stable sponsor. FunnelFuel are specialists in B2B digital marketing and all about their background and latest news can be found on https://funnelfuel.io  It has been a bit quite on the track lately as a few of the winter horses have run as if needing…
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