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Originally posted on theirishfield.ie Paul Webber shares with Leo Powell his memories of a special day, his first Cheltenham Festival winner THIRTEEN has never been considered unlucky in the [...]

That 2017–18 National Hunt season is already consigned to the bin and the new one is well into its unrelenting stride. It still seems wrong that there is no ‘proper’ break for Man nor Beast and [...]

During this long, difficult, snowy and dreary Winter, Cropredy Lawn has dealt with three snow storms but until four weeks ago had somehow avoided the worst of the rain. My how have we made up for [...]

January may have been ‘dry’ in more ways than one for many of you, but around Cropredy Lawn and the racecourses we had hoped to visit during that month, ‘dry’ never appeared in the descriptions [...]

Winter arrived with a vengeance of about 9” of snow around ‘these here parts’. It all looks so pristine and beautiful to start with, but when you have horses to exercise safely and half a mile of [...]

After seven seconds from nine races, who could have predicted that COPPERFACEJACK would put himself into contention for ‘First News’ in two consecutive PWR Reports by winning his second [...]

Photo credit: yan-photography.co.uk A Triumph for National Hunt Perseverance! So many times has COPPERFACEJACK looked like winning a race, only for some dastardly opponent to swoop by him on the [...]

Three runners set off for Huntingdon on Thursday and two became thrilling winners. I agree with Meatloaf when he sang “That two out of three ain’t bad.” We hoped more than knew that BREATH OF [...]

The day dawns after weeks of preparation, planning and praying. It is a seriously important day for everybody and so much work goes into getting everything precisely right. For 19 out of the last [...]