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Greetings from Belgium. Don’t worry, I am still in a field at Shovelstrode. I just had the urge to make an in-joke that excludes people who failed to read the July blog. The helper monkey tells me that humans tend to like a running joke. Well funnily enough, so do horses. How else do you…
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It was impossible not to commemorate the Great Meteor of 1783. It entered the atmosphere over the North Sea, crossed England in a south westerly heading and went out over the channel and then it observed the Montgolfier brothers assembling the first manned balloon and disintegrated in despair. A mere three months later, the balloon…
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The blog is late this month because I have been busy watching the World Cup. We don’t have an actual television in the field, but I directed the other horses to erect an elaborate system of mirrors so that we could get it from any nearby location with one. It worked pretty well, because we…
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We had a new bloke in the field since my last update, Hallo Max. He seemed nice enough, but all of a sudden the field suddenly felt a bit…overcrowded. To the untrained human eye, it might look like a very big field, but I subscribe to the philosophy that anything which is not within touching…
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Two major events in Tonga on past 4ths of June – independence in 1970 and the abolition of serfdom in 1862. What will they do for the hat trick? There has only been a small amount of action on course since the last update. Our chums down the road at Plumpton lost their Ladies’ Day…
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On this day in 1455 the Wars of the Roses were deemed to have begun, at the Battle of Stale Buns, which, as we all know, is the closing event in Shakespeare’s Henry VI, part 2. For those looking for a more contemporary reference, on this day in 1987 the first Rugby World Cup began,…
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Greetings from the undisputed chess champion of the bath field and the summer field. I have indeed united the belts (whatever that means), carrying my unbeaten run into the summer field defeating all the horses that have ventured my way. I have to say that the challengers took their defeats with good grace, apart from…
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Today (April 26th) would have been the 100th birthday of commentating legend David Coleman, inspiration for Private Eye’s “Colemanballs” feature collecting idiotic things said on television and radio. Enjoy these wisdoms: The season ended on a high with GOLD CLERMONT back in the winners’ enclosure. The ground would have been borderline for her but the…
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Apologies if this blog does not make sense. Suzy Wood went off on her summer holiday and just dumped it on me with the instruction “do the blog and don’t ruin it.” I mean, as a mission statement it is a bit vague and I have had to put up with Wait In The Wings…
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Today is 287 years since Dick Turpin was hanged in York. Not for highway robbery, but for horse theft. It would also have been Ravi Shankar’s 106th birthday, but he was not convicted of any equine related chicanery (as far as we know) but did record a song uncharacteristically titled “Dispute And Violence.” Still looking…
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