Tag Archives: royal ascot

One 4/1 winner and a stone cold last on Saturday gone just about sums up the world of racing in my book, but a profit was made to level stakes yet again, and not too many services can claim that without their fingers crossed behind their backs I assure you! …

With all due respect to the greatest flat racing meeting in the World bar none, please forgive a slightly muted, even shortened review of the final day as I finally stir from my pit after five days of 24/7 work for us poor much maligned racing hacks! As an old …

I suspect if I told you how hard my job is I would be greeted by howls of derision and numerous offers to take my place, so I won’t do that, but I will say it is incredibly tiring during the Festivals, and the poor transport in and out of …

Starting with an apology is never the best of starts but I tried being a smart arse yesterday by writing a few tweets in advance only to get caught out with my trousers down when mentioning a horse who had been declared a non runner hours earlier! Not looking for …

Not a great day on Wednesday for yours truly as I.T. Issues created all sorts of problems with Wi-Fi, 3G, and even bog standard texting failing to work properly for me or anyone else I ran in to. Those with laptops in the media centre were laughing thanks to hard …

As promised, a quick review of Ascot each day starts here with my thoughts on the first day.  After eventually arriving (the traffic was the worst I have ever seen in all my years and it’s a train for me for the rest of the week), I arrived hot and …

Below is the text of the Newsletter that has already gone out to our members this morning but we want to introduce you to what we do. Have a read, feel free to share this with friends and then join us. The picture (left), shows Post Racing members at a …

Post Racing members are now beginning to see the fruits our labours and their donations. It was never going to be an overnight success with us having no advertising budget and only our abilities to graft away to make it successful. But we are getting there. It took us 14 …

I had laughed when David O’Meara called me to say he had found a race for our Charity Horse, Rosie’s Lady, at Wolverhampton on New Years Day. He thought I was laughing because I felt the race was unsuitable but no, I was laughing because I knew the state I …