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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? ..

UTMOST RESPECT DESERVES JUST THAT
04 Sep 08 - ALL MORNING my phone has been going with football fans calling me and asking me what I think of Man City being bought by the rulers of the State of Dubai...

BACK BLUE JACK
28 Aug 08 - IT DID MY old heart good to see that cascade of British gold, silver and bronze medals from the Olympic Games. ..

A NOD'S AS GOOD AS A WINK
21 Aug 08 - THIS WEEK I want to bring Racing Club members up to date with some very difficult decisions I have had to make...

MISERY ARSES
24 Jul 08 - LAST SUNDAY I was cheering for an Englishman to lift the claret jug but it was a man with a girls sun hat and pink trousers. How can you cheer for a man in pink trousers?..

NELSON TO LORD IT
18 Jul 08 - HERE WE ARE safely back in Blighty after our holiday in France. The French PMUs (Tote shops) have spoiled me and it will come as a culture shock when I walk into a Newmarket betting shop. ..