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 [...]
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 [...]
GWAFA winning The Pertemps Network Hurdle at Haydock in May was our high-light of a fairly ordinary year but at least we did finish it with a very important winner on Boxing Day.
Plenty of action approaching this week-end as everybody is trying to get horses onto the racecourse despite this prevailing dry spell. Of course everybody wants rain, but for us we’d like to wait [...]