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A lot has been written about the fall in betting turnover and the impact that is going to have on just about everything including Prize Money. The ‘so called’ 3 billion pound black hole. The blame ...

Just like last week in Ireland the foal market has polarized. It almost doesn’t matter on what basis. Obviously the foal needs to be a nice foal, good walker, by a fashionable or proven sire, possib ...

He looked a bit like he did at Epsom maybe thats just how he is but to me he looked very big behind the girth, and after the race he was blowing like an old tractor, but he is horse that I find intere ...

Well RP you were right about G1 races varying from year to year, and of course we all knew that was the case. I have been working on a way to demonstrate that even so the quality has declined as the n ...

Its not a new topic but I wanted to make sure it was not lost down the page. There were 2 performances at Goodwood that stuck out, both the winners were trained by Aiden O'Brien. Kyprios and the Justi ...

I have to own up to being very lazy and that I have lifted the following from the Racing Post, but those in denial need to smell the coffee. I am not sure that any of my personal gripes and solutions ...

There was a very telling article in today's Racing Post about the continuing fall in race course attendance. I find it quite shocking that the average attendance in the first half of the year was as l ...

The July Cup has completely convinced me that the standards of our bloodstock are falling fast, and it is in the sprint divisions that the fall is most noticeable. The winner of the July Cup was Mill ...

In light of recent results I think it would be appropriate to have another look at Gleneagles. He is the sire of the July Cup winner Mill Stream, and of Ambiente Friendly runner up in the Derby. I had ...

The reaction to City of Troy's hard fought victory in Saturdays Eclipse is IMO a bit too negative. Clearly he did not relish the ground conditions. Sandown is a horrible track when it gets soft. For m ...

The week after Ascot is always a week when you look back at the performances and try to put them into some sort of meaningful context. I have been playing back the races over and over and there is one ...

The current CEO for the BHA has announced she is leaving at the end of the year. Thank goodness! The new CEO will have an even harder job to get the sport into some sort of sustainable condition. Firs ...

I didn't like him much, he appeared to be a mudlark and was very inconsistent, when things were in his favour he was smart but he ran a few really bad races. His pedigree looks OK on most platforms I ...

Premier Racing is dead. Just as predicted the outdated policy has not exactly worked as the BHA had expected. Crowds are still well down on last year and the future of racing in the UK is looking incr ...

I went to look at a potential mare at the sales today. She was by No Nay Never out of a Galileo mare. Nice enough, but quite small and very light framed and turned out on both fore. To me she was ALL ...

I am going to revisit a recent post on inbreeding, but with a caveat. I am using my definition of the coefficient of inbreeding, nothing else. I am going to get very grumpy if this starts to turn in t ...

It’s a horrible wet and not so warm day here so I am confined to the office for the morning at least. I was thinking about inbreeding and how inbreeding to some horses appears to be very negative ye ...

Anyone been through the catalogue? I have been through at least 3 times and I have only a very short list of possible lots. My process is fairly strict but I would normally have double what I have so ...

At Ascot on saturday the going was not bad and it was a cold but reasonable winters day. 7 races 38 runners including the one that didn't start, about 200K in prizes. 5.5 runners per race average how ...

I am astonished that the Racing Post these days hardly ever challenges the BHA or the ex BHA chiefs. This weeks Front Page podcast is a prime example. They seem unable or unwilling to say this is wron ...

I noticed in an article in the Racing Post that former BHA Chief Executive Nick Rust was calling for ‘Bold Change’ to be made in order to turn British Racing around. He warned that the current cha ...

Well here we go again, its mid October and this weekend its Champions Day at Ascot. The going early this week at Ascot was Soft. We are expecting a serious amount of rain tonight and tomorrow, some es ...

St Leger winner Continuous (Hearts Cry ex Fluff x Galileo) has a pretty classy pedigree, and an interesting one too.
His sire Hearts Cry (Sunday Silence) was a high level performer in Japan and trave ...

Don’t you all think its about time that race distances were run and published over proper distances. Ever since the BHA or whoever was administering racing decided to make the racecourses re measure ...

I saw a headline on the Racing Post website today 'How to make the Shergar Cup Pay', obviously some know it all pundit with a tipping service. More pressing however is 'How to make the Shergar Cup INT ...

What an impressive performance from City of Troy in the G2 Superlative Stakes at Newmarket yesterday. His demeanour was just a little 'spooky' he was completely unfazed by everything about him and the ...

What a very good performance yesterday from a progressive horse that looks to be going into the very top grade soon. He is an extremely attractive horse too he looks a lot like Sea The Stars (his dam ...

The performance that has impressed me the most so far is that of Mostahdaf, (Frankel ex Handassa). Firstly the race was very solid the runners were relatively closely matched and 5 of the 6 runners we ...

Mawj was a good winner of the 1000 gns and she was picked out by RP 9 or 10 months ago so RESPECT. She had definitely been given the Dubai treatment and looked a completely different filly from last y ...

The supreme festival of Jump Racing is going to run on a bog again. The track have been watering all 3 courses for at least a month and now we have just had a lot of rain and snow with more forecast f ...

Is anyone here doing a dry January, in Newmarket everyone seems to be doing it and some are also going through February. Personally I think its starting to drag!

I am deeply disturbed by the fact that there is currently a meeting discussing the changes to the structure of racing. Why am I concerned? because in none of the preamble to the meeting about increasi ...

I am off to Italy for a few days and taking my Tattersalls catalogues along for some serious research. This year I am adding a new metric. For mares with progeny there is a very telling line in the en ...

Just something that took my eye from the Tattersalls August Sale Catalogue. A gelding that has been named Limited Ability. Last 3 starts 8/9 class 6 handicap at Yarmouth, 9/11 class 5 WFA Wolverhampto ...

Did anyone spot the crowd at Newmarket last week, I understand that on Saturday the crowd was down about 14% on pre covid levels. I think Ascot was down nearly 24% and even York was slightly down. Gen ...

In a recent paper comparing the breeze times of horses in the Breeze Up Sales over the past few years and the relationship between times and racing performance I was very surprised by one major statis ...