Another week, another Ladies Day. We chose to stand in the middle by the picnic marquee, the pitch was near the bar and, probably more...

National Hunt racing is still the one and only. In my last blog I talked about prize money and the lack of it derailing many potential...

If you've had a quick scan of Twitter in the last few days you'll have, no doubt, seen a fair bit about on course bookmakers, enhanced...

A quick turnaround for us as on our way to Hamilton shortly so it really is a rapid trot through the card today. Purists only. I'm...

National Hunt racing is dying on its RRRRs….. I've been a racehorse owner for 25 years and, with the national hunt season just round the...

5:45am alarm call with the prospect of being home somewhere around 10pm. Unavoidable delays on the track meant that was nearer 11pm as it...

Bit of a bonus (or curse) blog here as we did not expect to be working at this meeting. In fact the last blog still reports our next...

Steve unavailable for this one so Bryson stepped into the breach to help us out. It meant I made one of my rare outings doing the book....

It's really hard to generate crowds. It's nearly as hard to keep them. It's very easy to lose them and, if you do, it's even harder to...

Yes, I know I've used this headline before but it summed up day 2 and who doesn't love a reprise of the quote from the footy player who...

Late finish Friday and early start Saturday can only equal short blog so we'll have a quick skip through the hopscotch of the books....

Hexham, as you will know by now, is on the way to everywhere and, indeed, from everywhere. This time it's on the way from Ascot to the...

A few musings on the week before we hit the main betting bit; Crowds were up at Ascot overall but down fairly significantly on The...

We're packing up tonight for the long trip north after racing tomorrow so this is going to be short and sweet. Though, clearly, not as...

Again- this won't be a long one as we're doing 12 hour days all told and the longer the week goes on the more tired we get. My extremely...

A rather splendid curry at the Gurkha Chef means I've got about 10 minutes to write this before I crash. Brevity is good for the soul...

I'm writing this preamble on Monday night so I have no idea how we've done but I do know what's happened on the trip down. We dropped off...

Firstly I'm not a vegetarian or vegan. So why the odd title? Well, firstly, it's a cracking album and if you're tempted to tell me The...

Another blog, another mangled 1980s REM album track. Gold Cup Day which has always been a strong betting meeting. The predicted crowd was...