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Weekend Racing Tips

Dum di dum di dum di dum…

Once upon a time, a long while ago, I was staying with my cuz in Middle Wallop, where he was with the Army Air Corps,

Capt. Kneesup 27th January 2023
Weekend Racing Tips

Haydock off – An amended view

Saturday morning 10:00am: Andy Murray is giving it some welly on Eurosport and being hugely supported. I am totally bamboozled by how he’s doing it

Capt. Kneesup 20th January 2023
Weekend Racing Tips

I fear Harry hasn’t read any Machiavelli

Because I have a perverse streak in me, I keep a copy of The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, close by. It is in essence, (and

Capt. Kneesup 7th January 2023
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Maybe this time I’ll be lucky…

I see no point in dwelling on the past two weeks, in which Raceweb has been dogged by problems associated with emails. We may well

Capt. Kneesup 28th December 2022
Weekend Racing Tips

Going Cuckoo in Purdah

The trouble with managing this lurgi is the absence of the guiding bark. The Hon is absent having gone to London and then Liverpool for

Capt. Kneesup 2nd December 2022
Weekend Racing Tips

The Red Wall crumbles

The week has positively flown by, disappearing almost as quickly as the beating heart of my spread-betting account. In the middle of it all, I

Capt. Kneesup 25th November 2022
F1

Racing, Footy and a Freebie!

What a week. The Aga saga, which has moved on to the construction of the Kneesup Kitchen at the Chateau d’If, took a turn for

Capt. Kneesup 18th November 2022
Weekend Racing Tips

The Handmaid’s tipping sheet

I arrive, as ever, late to the party and so am finally able to say “Lumme. That Margaret Attwood and her Handmaid’s Tale. Bleak? …

Capt. Kneesup 10th November 2022
Weekend Racing Tips

Football not the same as Veganism… who knew?

As you might imagine, I was shocked by the Employment Tribunal judgement delivered in McClung v Doosan Babcock Ltd. Caramba, I hear you cry. Not

Capt. Kneesup 14th October 2022
Weekend Racing Tips

Cunning plans heaped upon cunning plans.

The torrid arguments about the future of racing continued apace this week. Various pointless assurances about its future have been uttered, and all of them

Capt. Kneesup 8th October 2022
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Up the Amazon without a stamp

A little shout-out to Amazon, from whom I bought some stamps last June in bulk. What can go wrong with that transaction, I thought. Nothing

Capt. Kneesup 7th October 2022
TV & Radio

Off to Longchamp via Warmington-on-Sea

As the weekend looms, it’s difficult to know how to divide one’s time. The TV alone will be providing: The Singapore Grand Prix (Sunday 1:00

Capt. Kneesup 1st October 2022
Weekend Racing Tips

Through a glass darkly.

Since we were last together, it is accurate to say that the world has changed, and the impact of those changes is primarily unseen and

Capt. Kneesup 22nd September 2022
F1

Like Meghan, I am blessed

As the world descends into chaos and the End of Days announces itself with a viral outbreak “of concern” in the Argentine, my week finishes

Capt. Kneesup 3rd September 2022
F1

The circus comes to town.

This week’s diary found me pinning a badge saying “I like Milk from Cows” on a small Ukrainian child. As you might imagine, my historical

Capt. Kneesup 27th August 2022
Weekend Racing Tips

But where do I put my Swan?

Just as I was about to send you some small note last Saturday on the weekend’s racing, The Hon Plantagenet dragged me away to give

Capt. Kneesup 12th August 2022
F1

And so it begins….

There is a lot of pressure this week as we prepare for the builders to arrive and we also move into temporary offices. The Wifi

Capt. Kneesup 23rd July 2022
Golf Tips

Bad Manners, The US Open and Royal Ascot Day 1.

In the midst of all the Ascot preparations, the thinking, the calculations, the decisiveness and confidence, sadly coupled with the loss of all value perceptions

Capt. Kneesup 13th June 2022
Golf Tips

No Nay Never No More

I know – for one brief joyous moment you thought there would be no more from Kneesup. No, I will probably take a break for

Capt. Kneesup 19th May 2022
Golf Tips

The FA Cup, Golf and The Lockinge

They’re racing early tomorrow because of the FA Cup. For some reason, I had it in my head that the Cup was next weekend and

Capt. Kneesup 13th May 2022

All this and The Kentucky Derby

What a joy to be at Badminton. From the Car Park to The Members Enclosure was just shy of 3000 paces. Shopping with The Hon,

Capt. Kneesup 6th May 2022
Newmarket Guineas Meeting

1000 Guineas

The Almost God of Thirsk smiled briefly in our collective direction when I wrote, DUBAI LOVE is getting first-time cheekpieces from S Bin S and

Capt. Kneesup 1st May 2022
Newmarket Guineas Meeting

I almost made 2000 Guineas today

A day of almosts… we almost had a wonderful set of fourfold accumulators come off; we almost got it right on Ricci Rich having the

Capt. Kneesup 30th April 2022
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Punchestown Day 4

This looks like a day for favourites – or certainly top of the market players. I have suggested doing an accumulator at the bottom of

Capt. Kneesup 29th April 2022
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Punchestown Day 3

Unlike other racing columns, this one is totally transparent in keeping its readers abreast of its own follies. Yesterday, and not to put too fine

Capt. Kneesup 28th April 2022
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Punchestown Day 2

Not the worst day I’ve ever had at Punchestown, helped by a winner and a couple of places, which in turn were helped by the

Capt. Kneesup 27th April 2022
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No time to spare

I once had to write 1000 times Procrastination is the thief of time: Anon Today has been nothing but a sea of procrastinators delaying me

Capt. Kneesup 26th April 2022
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Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?

Showing a woeful grasp of history, the bollocks-sphere has rung with the mutterings of the illiterati, suggesting that the Bishops have no right to involve

Capt. Kneesup 21st April 2022
Weekend Racing Tips

The Irish Grand National.

I wanted to touch briefly on The Cheltenham Festival which the Jockey Club seem determined to have as a five-day meeting regardless of the outcome

Capt. Kneesup 18th April 2022
Weekend Racing Tips

Well Done Peter O’Sullevan Lambourn Open Day

I don’t know about Middleham, but in lovely Lambourn, the sun hit some 20º, and the day was glorious. The streets were packed with thousands

Capt. Kneesup 16th April 2022
Just a thought

So farewell Cheltenham…

Just one more day of potentially impactful racing at the home of NH racing, for which I have just two tips. The purists amongst you

Capt. Kneesup 14th April 2022
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Welcome to The Twilight Zone

I have this vision of hundreds of people around the country, wandering around in their Jim Jams and dressing gowns, shuffling from fridge to kettle

Capt. Kneesup 12th April 2022
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Sunny side up – at last

What a weekend for sunshine and sunny moments. Sam Waley-Cohen being hugged by Marcus Armytage – a rare and precious mantle now shared. Scottie Scheffler

Capt. Kneesup 12th April 2022
Aintree GN

It’s Grand – but is it Cornish?

My day can be summarised by the outcome of the Aintree race at 4:40 pm, and my huge wager on STAG HORN.  So appalled was

Capt. Kneesup 9th April 2022

“A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.”

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