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My father warned me last week that my recent blogs may get me in trouble. Trainers and bookmakers are not people you want to get on the wrong side of, apparently. I reminded him that it is highly likely that…
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Around The Races In Eighty Days
A horse racing odyssey
My father warned me last week that my recent blogs may get me in trouble. Trainers and bookmakers are not people you want to get on the wrong side of, apparently. I reminded him that it is highly likely that…
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A week after reporting on the Black Dave saga, I once again feel duty bound to peer under the murky duvet of secrecy and investigate the rancid underbelly of our beloved sport. This time though, it concerns one of the…
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Last week it emerged that Welsh trainer David Evans had been fined £3,000 for backing one of his horses, Black Dave, at Wolverhampton in 2015. Perfectly legal, you might think, and most of the time you’d be right, except that…
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Despite the irresistible allure of a signed copy of my book up for grabs, nobody got within 4,000 miles of the correct location for last week’s quiz. However, surely the followers of a horse racing blog will do better this…
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(This blog comes with a health warning: playing this game will make you unable to function as a human being for significant periods of time.) My youngest came back from school yesterday saying that he had played a computer game…
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