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ROCK CRITIC TO CALL THE TUNE ROCK CRITIC TO CALL THE TUNE
28 Sep 12 - THE BIG talking point in racing this week has been the changes made by the British Horseracing Authority to the Grand National...

HOLD YOUR BATED BREATH HOLD YOUR BATED BREATH
25 May 12 - THIS WEEK I want to touch on football the way I sometimes do...


WHISKY AND PORT FOR ME WHISKY AND PORT FOR ME
16 Mar 12 - THIS WEEK all roads lead to the Cheltenham Festival...

HAVE A DROP OF WHISKY HAVE A DROP OF WHISKY
09 Mar 12 - WITH THE Cheltenham Festival only a week away it is time for me to give you the best advice I can to enable you to win some money...


MON PARRAIN TO WIN AGAIN MON PARRAIN TO WIN AGAIN
11 Nov 11 - THE RACING this week is dominated by the Breeders Cup meeting a Churchill Downs in Kentucky but I must confess that I find the whole thing totally over the top...

IT'S TIME FOR RUPERT AGAIN IT'S TIME FOR RUPERT AGAIN
28 Oct 11 - THERE IS only one topic of conversation in racing this week and it is the whip ban...


ENTER THE MIGHTY FRANKEL ENTER THE MIGHTY FRANKEL
14 Oct 11 - I have to begin with the weather. Earlier in the week when the warm sunshine was turning the leaves around Newmarket into flames of gold I was really looking forward to Cesarewitch day last Saturday...

GO ON A FOX HUNT GO ON A FOX HUNT
07 Oct 11 - ONCE AGAIN I am being angered by the levels of prize money in racing. Last Saturday at Newmarket over a million pound was paid out in prize money to the winners of two races...


GO ON DARE TO DANCE GO ON DARE TO DANCE
23 Sep 11 - BEFORE I chat about racing I would like to say a few words of praise about the place where I, The famous Shadow first saw the light of day...

MAC'S POWER IN THE AYR MAC'S POWER IN THE AYR
16 Sep 11 - I WISH I could like Michael Owen...


CENSUS IN THE LEDGER CENSUS IN THE LEDGER
09 Sep 11 - MY RACING winnings have blessed me with a lovely home and a big garden as well as my stables and paddocks...

DEACON TO LIFT THE BLUES DEACON TO LIFT THE BLUES
02 Sep 11 - THIS WEEK I have to take a little more of my readers’ time to talk about myself...


REACH FOR PEA SHOOTER REACH FOR PEA SHOOTER
18 Jul 11 - THERE IS a bit of a lull in racing until the start of Glorious Goodwood and I have other sporting matters on my mind. I love all forms of sport. I think sport can and should be an important part of everybody’s life. ..

BONJOUR MONSIEUR CHEVALIER BONJOUR MONSIEUR CHEVALIER
08 Jul 11 - MY FAVOURITE way to spend a couple of hours at the end of a fine summer day is to go for a drive around the villages around Newmarket. In fact it is what I intend to do when I have finished my weekly chat...


CANFORD CLIFFS TO HIT THE HEIGHTS CANFORD CLIFFS TO HIT THE HEIGHTS
01 Jul 11 - I HAD a feeling when Frankel won the 2000 Guineas that it may have been a result which had a far reaching effect on racing...

THE WORKFORCE BE WITH YOU THE WORKFORCE BE WITH YOU
17 Jun 11 - THIS IS one of those weeks I hate when I have to write “by the time you are reading this such and such will have happened” but it is always the same for Royal Ascot...


JOIN THE REGAL PARADE JOIN THE REGAL PARADE
27 May 11 - IN ALL the years I have been writing here in the News I have always made a point of not tearing into jockeys when they make mistakes...

GOOD THING THIS OVERDOSE GOOD THING THIS OVERDOSE
20 May 11 - I WAS out doing a bit of shopping this week. I was buying some flowers for my wife as a matter of fact...


IT COULD BE HIGHWAY ROBBERY IT COULD BE HIGHWAY ROBBERY
12 May 11 - MY HEADLINE last week quite properly paid tribute to the passing of Henry Cooper...

EXIT A LEGEND ENTER A LEGEND EXIT A LEGEND ENTER A LEGEND
06 May 11 - I HAD got my chat with you this week all worked out in my head and I thought it would all be so straightforward. No such luck...