A runner tomorrow, and a possible winner – Tifernati goes in the 2:10 at Hereford, and if he can’t win he isn’t going to win anything. He was found with a tendon problem in a one of his back legs last season – it’s unusual as tendon issues are normally in the front legs. It took him a long time …

My Cheltenham posts fell by the wayside after a boozy Wednesday night. I managed to finish the week on a high after backing Imperial Commander in the Cup – it was my only decent priced winner but I had a good bet on it and finished up for the week. On the Saturday I went up to Manor House for …

A losing start yesterday but Quevega limited the damage. It was disappointing to see Khyber Kim beaten by Binocular – it was hard to go with Binocular with question marks over his wellbeing. I travelled up early with Bob, a co-owner in my horses with Nick Gifford. We arrived in Cheltenham at around 12. Bob refused to take me to …

Day 1 coming up, and I’m off early tomorrow for the full four days as usual. My impression of the card; Supreme Novices I’m going to sit this one out. Dunguib is a fantastic prospect but his jumping might let him down. I don’t want to back him at short odds and I don’t want to be betting that he …

… they probably will in games without frontiers… This is a line from a Peter Gabriel song. Many years ago I had an argument with my brother in law about this that ran for several days. I said the line was grammatically incorrect – it should be “if looks could kill they probably would”. He said either was ok. In …