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2009 - A YEAR OF PROMISE
02 Jan 09 - AT THIS time of year we all look back on the year which is ending and forward to the one which waits just around the corner. As I do this I have a very strong premonition that for us punters at the News it will be the Tale of Two Easters. I will explain...

FOLLOW THE MONEY - BELCANTISTA
18 Dec 08 - HERE WE are again, it is Christmas already. It is my second favourite time of the year coming a close second behind the start of the flat season in March...

IMPERIAL COMMANDS RESPECT
11 Dec 08 - AFTER HIS fine performance to win last month's Paddy Power Gold Cup Nigel Twiston-Davies' rising star will try to become the ninth hoss to secure both of Pestbury Park's big winter two and a half mile chases. ..

MASTER MINDED FOR SURE
05 Dec 08 - THIS WEEK my piece is going to be a bit upside down. Normally I give you my selection for my Saturday bet right at the end but this week I wish to make an unashamed appeal for members to sign up in our Racing Club so I am going to give you my bet of the week straight off.....

ISLAND TO FLY HOME
27 Nov 08 - I SEEM to be going through one of my regular bouts of Seconditis. All regular punters know the condition. ..

CRACK AWAY JACK
20 Nov 08 - THIS SATURDAY sees the return of a hoss which owes me a lot of money I refer of course to Kauto Star in the Betfair Chase at Haydock...

OURS - ALL OURS
13 Nov 08 - I AM HOPING that these words of mine will be appearing abovesome pictures I took of our beautiful new hosses. I am a terrible old dinosaur and struggle with anything more technically complex than the telly remote, but I have done my best with my boy Percy's digital camera...

LET'S GO HOSS RACING!
07 Nov 08 - THEY SAY it is an ill wind which blows nobody good. That is very much the way of things with the Southwark News Racing Club...

SNIFF OUT SUPER SLEUTH
31 Oct 08 - LAST SUNDAY I wrote my thank you letters to all the members of the Racing Club who had re-joined for next year...

JUKEBOX TO HAVE YOU DANCING
23 Oct 08 - IN MANY ways hoss racing lags behind other sports in the way it is run and managed...

DEE GEE IS DA GEE GEE
16 Oct 08 - IT IS a sad day for racing. I had hoped that it would not happen but it has. Zarkava the Aga Khan's wonder filly which blew away all of the opposition in the Arc has been retired to stud...

IT'S DRILL SERGEANT YOU 'ORRIBLE LOT
09 Oct 08 - THE TOPIC on every racing fan's lips this week has been the performance of Zarkava in last Sunday's Arc. It even got me and my one time old friend Baldy talking again...

ASK THE BUTLER AGAIN
02 Oct 08 - I MAKE no apologies this week for communicating directly with the members of our racing club. With the yearling sales at Newmarket almost upon us I shall soon be searching for a replacement for Newsboy, now that he has been moved on...

HENRY THE FIRST
25 Sep 08 - ACCOUNTANTS? DONCHA just love 'em? I started thinking about the number crunchers who rule our lives by chance when I read in the racing press that if the dry weather persists they are going to water the course at Ascot...

THE BUTLER WILL OBLIGE
18 Sep 08 - THE OLD saying is "Scratch the surface of a Bookie and underneath you will find a Bookie". I was reminded of this old pearl of wisdom when I read the ante post prices for the Arc and saw that Zarkava is on offer at 7-4. ..

HOT TIP - FROZEN FIRE
12 Sep 08 - ONE OF THE questions I am asked most frequently is about the affect of the going on hosses' performance. Is it really that important? people ask and if so, why is it so important? ..