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Another shock retirement this week, with news that Tom Scudamore has called it a day after 25 years in the saddle and has yet to
Another shock retirement this week, with news that Tom Scudamore has called it a day after 25 years in the saddle and has yet to
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
Between last night and this, I ran into the work of Albanian-born cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton, who has a fascinating profile piece in The New Scientist
This last week I found myself moved by various snippets of writing that gave me unexpected pleasure. Among those was a small segment of The
Despite calling in sick for exactly 26 days, it turns out that the Lateral Flow Tests I used every seven days were all flawed, and
Three English racecourses, two jumps meeting, the final televised Flat Handicap Turf race (as I type I wonder whether that’s right?) of the 2021 season,
A slightly ethereal conversation this morning with Madame, who posed the question: “Is it possible, that we might both have died from Covid, and that
Following my thoughts on Altcar yesterday, Capt. S, whose work in the Intelligence Services is, in some countries, the stuff of legend, sends me a
On Thursday Lockdown 2 started. The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker, all remain open and three Huzzahs for them. That isn’t however the case
Firstly a very Happy New Year to you all. A couple of weeks away from the Raceweb coalface, and while you may struggle to come
A rotten way to end the season, but for the people of Donny, no racing is an irrelevance. Having been flooded once before, I can
βA difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.”
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