There is something melancholic about the rhythm of the Shipping Forecast that is now part of the morning commute... Pretty calm out there. Which must be good news for those sea faring folk... So we ...

When driving in just now.... Feels colder... The Grandstand lit bright in the dark of dawn. A stately ship astride the Downs... Torches flickering across the turf as early lots pick their way through ...

Of my love of our great sport, the famous green with the red epaulets have been a constant... There have been changes of tack along the way that have left careers spiralling in the wake... It has not ...

A good morning to travel. Whilst most are sensibly tucked up in their beds, the A3 and the M25 empty and trouble free... The sign by the A3 / M25 "spaghetti" junction proudly proclaims, "Completion ...

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Sounds like a couple of upcoming lunches that loom large in the diary... Storm Eowyn. Pronounced "Ay - oh - win". Just sounds pretty scary. A Welsh warrior from a bygone age. A Tolkien character from ...

No cigars. Certainly no disgrace... Meeting 4 of The Bahrain Turf Series yesterday evening. Floodlights. Thursday racing here works for jockeys based in Dubai as they can fly in and out on the day.

And this is not even the storm bit. The "warm up" act for Eowyn.... A pretty wild night. And not because it was "Foam Night" at The Golden Ferret Nightclub in Guildford. Wild and windy. Mash, our ...