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On the face of it, Majborough looks a more appropriate candidate to be returned to hurdling than Sir Gino but there doesn’t seem to be any talk of it.
On the face of it, Majborough looks a more appropriate candidate to be returned to hurdling than Sir Gino but there doesn’t seem to be any talk of it.
Found A Fifty floors Majborough in Hilly Way | At The Races
Cork success seals a memorable day for Gordon Elliott and Jack Kennedy.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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On the face of it, Majborough looks a more appropriate candidate to be returned to hurdling than Sir Gino but there doesn’t seem to be any talk of it.
On the face of it, Majborough looks a more appropriate candidate to be returned to hurdling than Sir Gino but there doesn’t seem to be any talk of it.
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I know we’re all supposed to be on the brink of “turning to the black market” but the chances of me ever entrusting a penny of my money to shysters like this are, I can say with some confidence, nil.
I know we’re all supposed to be on the brink of “turning to the black market” but the chances of me ever entrusting a penny of my money to shysters like this are, I can say with some confidence, nil.
Former racehorse owner receives suspended prison sentence and fined £290,000 for role in illegal bookmaking operation
Haydon Simcock’s involvement was revealed after an undercover investigation by the Racing Post in February last year
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December 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I know we’re all supposed to be on the brink of “turning to the black market” but the chances of me ever entrusting a penny of my money to shysters like this are, I can say with some confidence, nil.
I know we’re all supposed to be on the brink of “turning to the black market” but the chances of me ever entrusting a penny of my money to shysters like this are, I can say with some confidence, nil.
I’d have to agree with Martin Calladine on this. A surprising misstep from Bloom.
It's never not embarrassing when owners do this.
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Brighton ban Guardian from stadium over reporting on Tony Bloom
Reporters and photographers have been banned by the Premier League club, as a Guardian spokesperson said the reporting was in the public interest
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December 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I’d have to agree with Martin Calladine on this. A surprising misstep from Bloom.
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The immensely wealthy will obviously do as they please but objectively the price paid for this filly is ridiculous. She’s promising but needs to improve to win at the top level and her pedigree’s distinctly ordinary. Great result for Karl Burke, though.
The immensely wealthy will obviously do as they please but objectively the price paid for this filly is ridiculous. She’s promising but needs to improve to win at the top level and her pedigree’s distinctly ordinary. Great result for Karl Burke, though.
Burke Celebrates 'Win-Win Situation' with Arqana Headliner Half Sovereign Staying in Middleham
Karl Burke's Half Sovereign headlined the opening session of the Arqana Vente d'Elevage when selling to Henry Lascelles for €2.6 million.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The immensely wealthy will obviously do as they please but objectively the price paid for this filly is ridiculous. She’s promising but needs to improve to win at the top level and her pedigree’s distinctly ordinary. Great result for Karl Burke, though.
The immensely wealthy will obviously do as they please but objectively the price paid for this filly is ridiculous. She’s promising but needs to improve to win at the top level and her pedigree’s distinctly ordinary. Great result for Karl Burke, though.
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Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
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For those interested in the breeding side of the sport, this is excellent from Adam Houghton in @thetdn.bsky.social with the words of Pierre Gasnier of @agakhanstuds.com carrying particular resonance in relation to his employers’ long-term goal.
For those interested in the breeding side of the sport, this is excellent from Adam Houghton in @thetdn.bsky.social with the words of Pierre Gasnier of @agakhanstuds.com carrying particular resonance in relation to his employers’ long-term goal.
Consign Ltd Hoping Lightning Can Strike Twice at Arqana with Half Sovereign
The Prix Miesque winner Half Sovereign features among the headline lots at the Arqana Vente d'Elevage which gets underway on Saturday.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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For those interested in the breeding side of the sport, this is excellent from Adam Houghton in @thetdn.bsky.social with the words of Pierre Gasnier of @agakhanstuds.com carrying particular resonance in relation to his employers’ long-term goal.
For those interested in the breeding side of the sport, this is excellent from Adam Houghton in @thetdn.bsky.social with the words of Pierre Gasnier of @agakhanstuds.com carrying particular resonance in relation to his employers’ long-term goal.
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COPY on all of today's ITV races for @AKBets. I'm going through all the contests now to do a betting update on each one. The punting shape of the Pertemps qualifier has completely changed after three NRs, for example; tips.akbets.co.uk/tony-calvin-...
TONY CALVIN: SATURDAY statistics and information – with opening copy on all races now included
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December 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
COPY on all of today's ITV races for @AKBets. I'm going through all the contests now to do a betting update on each one. The punting shape of the Pertemps qualifier has completely changed after three NRs, for example; tips.akbets.co.uk/tony-calvin-...
We are truly blessed…
Kevin Hassett on Trump: "He's the best communicator I've ever seen ... he's solving it seems all the world's problems, stopping wars and everything else"
December 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
We are truly blessed…
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You’d think the withdrawal of Amo Racing patronage was a significant factor in this.
You’d think the withdrawal of Amo Racing patronage was a significant factor in this.
Alice Haynes Makes 'Painful Decision' to Stop Training
Promising young trainer Alice Haynes has announced that she is to wind up her business in Newmarket
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December 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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You’d think the withdrawal of Amo Racing patronage was a significant factor in this.
You’d think the withdrawal of Amo Racing patronage was a significant factor in this.
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I’m sorry to hear this. Philip Waldron was a strong and reliable jockey, always associated in my mind with the Barnett colours which were a particularly familiar sight back then. And a “nice guy” as well, according to Henry Candy who’d be an expert on nice guys.
I’m sorry to hear this. Philip Waldron was a strong and reliable jockey, always associated in my mind with the Barnett colours which were a particularly familiar sight back then. And a “nice guy” as well, according to Henry Candy who’d be an expert on nice guys.
'A very good judge of a horse and a nice guy too' - Henry Candy leads tributes after death of Group 1-winning rider Philip Waldron
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December 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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I’m sorry to hear this. Philip Waldron was a strong and reliable jockey, always associated in my mind with the Barnett colours which were a particularly familiar sight back then. And a “nice guy” as well, according to Henry Candy who’d be an expert on nice guys.
I’m sorry to hear this. Philip Waldron was a strong and reliable jockey, always associated in my mind with the Barnett colours which were a particularly familiar sight back then. And a “nice guy” as well, according to Henry Candy who’d be an expert on nice guys.
A memorable Coronation Street storyline.
Coronation Street - written by Peter Whalley (3rd December 1980). Stan returns home from the doctors with some disturbing news - for medical reasons, he needs to give up beer.
December 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A memorable Coronation Street storyline.
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Tremendously entertaining stuff for anyone interested in betting but I can’t imagine someone with Tony Bloom’s public image is too happy being associated with naff characters like George Cottrell and (indirectly) Nigel Farage.
Tremendously entertaining stuff for anyone interested in betting but I can’t imagine someone with Tony Bloom’s public image is too happy being associated with naff characters like George Cottrell and (indirectly) Nigel Farage.
Key aide to Nigel Farage was frontman for Premier League billionaire’s betting syndicate, lawsuit claims
Exclusive: George Cottrell ‘gave control’ of gambling accounts to syndicate headed by Tony Bloom, the owner of Brighton & Hove Albion FC
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December 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Tremendously entertaining stuff for anyone interested in betting but I can’t imagine someone with Tony Bloom’s public image is too happy being associated with naff characters like George Cottrell and (indirectly) Nigel Farage.
Tremendously entertaining stuff for anyone interested in betting but I can’t imagine someone with Tony Bloom’s public image is too happy being associated with naff characters like George Cottrell and (indirectly) Nigel Farage.
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Another excellent article on Constitution Hill, this time from @gregwood.bsky.social
Another excellent article on Constitution Hill, this time from @gregwood.bsky.social
Constitution Hill should never be asked to jump a hurdle in public again | Greg Wood
There is no need to attempt to write a glorious final chapter, when an alternative ending does not bear thinking about
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December 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Another excellent article on Constitution Hill, this time from @gregwood.bsky.social
Another excellent article on Constitution Hill, this time from @gregwood.bsky.social
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For me, the fine should have been bigger and it really shouldn’t have taken the best part of eight months to deal with it.
For me, the fine should have been bigger and it really shouldn’t have taken the best part of eight months to deal with it.
Racecourse clerk fined for failure to provide accurate GoingStick reading
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December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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For me, the fine should have been bigger and it really shouldn’t have taken the best part of eight months to deal with it.
For me, the fine should have been bigger and it really shouldn’t have taken the best part of eight months to deal with it.
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Sensible piece from Kevin Blake regarding Constitution Hill. In particular: “…a cautionary tale to encourage the importance of striking while the horse is sound and not looking too far into the future.”
Sensible piece from Kevin Blake regarding Constitution Hill. In particular: “…a cautionary tale to encourage the importance of striking while the horse is sound and not looking too far into the future.”
The Kevin Blake Take | At The Races
An incident-packed Fighting Fifth Hurdle left Kevin wondering who will end up on top of the two-mile hurdling tree this season.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Sensible piece from Kevin Blake regarding Constitution Hill. In particular: “…a cautionary tale to encourage the importance of striking while the horse is sound and not looking too far into the future.”
Sensible piece from Kevin Blake regarding Constitution Hill. In particular: “…a cautionary tale to encourage the importance of striking while the horse is sound and not looking too far into the future.”
Love the photo chosen in this week’s Irish Field to illustrate “British betting shops”. A den of vice and iniquity if ever I’ve seen one.
December 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Love the photo chosen in this week’s Irish Field to illustrate “British betting shops”. A den of vice and iniquity if ever I’ve seen one.
The latest in an occasional series of desperate letters from ante-post punters to the Racing Post: Mike Strong’s effort in tomorrow’s paper. If I were a betting man - and I am - I’d take pretty short odds that Mike has backed Sir Gino to some tune for the Queen Mother Champion Chase. Nice try, Mike.
December 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The latest in an occasional series of desperate letters from ante-post punters to the Racing Post: Mike Strong’s effort in tomorrow’s paper. If I were a betting man - and I am - I’d take pretty short odds that Mike has backed Sir Gino to some tune for the Queen Mother Champion Chase. Nice try, Mike.
Good journalism still exists (part two):
December 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Good journalism still exists (part two):
Good journalism still exists (part one):
Latest from me: on the budget, Labour's troubles, & the government's increasingly tense & distant relationship with the UK's squeezed middle www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘squeezed middle’ is back – and this time it could be Labour’s undoing | John Harris
Last week’s budget left middle-income families anxious and angry. The party is turning its back on voters it can little afford to lose, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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December 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Good journalism still exists (part one):
Tony Stafford remains in top form. Any mention of Raymond Tooth puts me in mind of Lear Spear, fondly remembered (by me, at least) for his 1998 Cambridgeshire win.
December 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Tony Stafford remains in top form. Any mention of Raymond Tooth puts me in mind of Lear Spear, fondly remembered (by me, at least) for his 1998 Cambridgeshire win.
Tremendous horse, aggressively campaigned by his excellent trainer and if he stays sound we get to see a lot more of him in the coming years.
🎉 He did it!! 🎉
#Calandagan breaks the track record to win the Japan Cup in an epic dual with local favourite Masquerade Ball.
He's the first foreign victor since 2005 and only the second French-trained winner. 🟢🔴
#Calandafans
#Calandagan breaks the track record to win the Japan Cup in an epic dual with local favourite Masquerade Ball.
He's the first foreign victor since 2005 and only the second French-trained winner. 🟢🔴
#Calandafans
November 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Tremendous horse, aggressively campaigned by his excellent trainer and if he stays sound we get to see a lot more of him in the coming years.
Can’t blame Tizzard at all for thinking in terms of the Champion Hurdle with Alexei, especially after yesterday’s Fighting Fifth only muddied the waters even further. Lightly-raced 5yo, improving fast, strong traveller, effective at Cheltenham, weak division.
November 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Can’t blame Tizzard at all for thinking in terms of the Champion Hurdle with Alexei, especially after yesterday’s Fighting Fifth only muddied the waters even further. Lightly-raced 5yo, improving fast, strong traveller, effective at Cheltenham, weak division.
The days when top racehorses made the national news and were household names are long gone but Constitution Hill would become a cause celebre to those who hate racing and would like to ban it if he was to suffer a fatal fall on the track. That doesn’t look a far-fetched scenario now. Retire him.
November 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The days when top racehorses made the national news and were household names are long gone but Constitution Hill would become a cause celebre to those who hate racing and would like to ban it if he was to suffer a fatal fall on the track. That doesn’t look a far-fetched scenario now. Retire him.