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Once upon a time I was certain of everything…

But now I’m not so sure. With the Cheltenham Festival just two short weeks away, I have to confess I find myself a-dithering. I want to jump off, but someone must have just painted this fence I am sitting on, because I appear to be stuck. I find myself perched, my fellow TIP’s, upon the horns of [...]

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Gremlins, Guinness, and grinding gears

In case anyone was wondering, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. I’m back, glad to be back, but a disgruntled customer of British Telecom nonetheless. I’ll tell you why I’ve been offline for two weeks further down the page, I’m going to briefly recap on the racing at the weekend, including “that” [...]

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White rabbits, it’s February

 Any white rabbits scurrying around the hedgerows in the fields down the end of our lane this morning, will surely have been wishing for an extra fur coat…. a thick frost there was, and absolutely brass-monkeys-cold it was! February is upon us and we’re still suffering the cold snap. This afternoon’s cards at both Ludlow [...]

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Girl power to take this year’s Cheltenham bumper?

The beginning of yet another week, Dear Reader, and today I’m going to quickly review the weekend racing action, take a look forward at what I have planned for SkyBlueKangaroo this week, and also give you a pointer towards a race at the Cheltenham Festival. The Victor Chandler Chase was my feature race of the [...]

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Go Forrit!

When Well Chief beat Master Minded into submission at the Cheltenham Paddy Power meet it was arguably the biggest shock of the jumps season so far. But trainer Paul Nicholls has since revealed his star two-miler had a stress fracture in his 10th rib. How do you miss something as serious as a stress fracture [...]

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