A day of sport for me yesterday. I spent the morning with the children.  We have a couple of extras with us at the moment as one of the mothers at school had an accident with her 2yo boy – he fell out of a climbing frame and broke his femur.  He faces two weeks in traction and morphine injections – …

I’m not right at the moment – I’ve had a headache for about ten days and I’ve got blood in my nose.  Today is the first time in a while that I’ve felt properly human, although the headache is still just hanging in there – it started when I came off the beta-blockers.  I need to get this sorted once …

No good today with Lilac.  I thought she looked a little burly beforehand – she led for most of the race but went out like a light.  Richard said she tried to change her legs five or six times during the race.  It was probably down to lack of fitness – we’ll know more tomorrow. Lilac had really filled out …

Good and bad news on the mares.  Baldovina has been scanned in foal to Red Clubs.  Park Acclaim was scanned in foal to Kyllachy, but has re-absorbed the foetus .  It’s not uncommon – she needs to be covered again now.  Shawhill has been covered by Selkirk and we wait to hear the result. Astrodome is well and runs on either …

A good if slightly overlong week with some excellent races to savour.  I had big bets on Starluck in the Triumph and Tatenen in the Arkle, both failing, but I made the ground back on a few lesser races and finished nicely up for the week. Kauto Star did the business again and reminded us all what a star he truly is.  …

A good day yesterday in most senses.  I had a fair bet on Kayf Aramis, which put me right for the week.  I decided not to bet in the two big races and lost a little money at the end of the day. It was a long beery social day in the great Cheltenham tradition.  I crashed out late and …

A bad day 1 financially but I made some of it back yesterday.  I don’t think I’ll be betting much today as I’ve got such a busy day on – I’ll back a few rank outsiders to keep me interested. Latin America was well beaten in the bumper yesterday, but we were happy with the performance.  He couldn’t go the pace …

A busy weekend over that involved ferrying my children around to various party venues and shows. On Saturday Jane and I took the girls up to town with some of their friends to see “Wicked” – the untold story of the witches of Oz. The boys went to Wimbledon theatre with their grandmother to see Scooby Doo. We went to …