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Plus 5 and dry when driving in.

David Bass was in this morning before heading to Wincanton.

We jumped Prince Llywelyn and Those Tiger Feet

David and Patricia Plaza were here for a ‘Morning on the gallops and breakfast’ as booked through CD Tours.

Good to see Jonathan Herbert back in the yard. Jonathan used to be the racing correspondent to our local paper the Gloucester Echo.

Graham Potts our vet was in the yard this morning.

Archie and I spent yesterday wandering around Ian and Lizzie Wills’s farm. A fun day which included Henry Cator, Richard Crosbie-Dawon, Jonathan Hicks, Jim Rogers, Charlie Sample, Tim Bontecou and Mark Savage.. The sun shone..

We have a couple of runners today at Wincanton. Silver Kayf and Rhosneigr head there and for my thoughts please click here.

Sandown hosts one of my favourite races of the year. Unibet Veterans' Handicap Chase (In Memory Of Houblon Des Obeaux) Final Of 2019 Veterans' Series for 10yo+. This series has been a resounding success. Great to see these old boys having a race series like this with a hug pot of prize money for the final.

Racing news.. Sad to see that Peter Hiatt has retired from training. A wily old fox.. he was very good at improving horses from other yards… Racing legend Darkie Deacon’s funeral yesterday.

Here are a few things to ponder over for the weekend.

If poison expires, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous?

Which letter is silent in the word "Scent," the S or the C?

Do twins ever realize that one of them is unplanned?

Maybe oxygen is slowly killing you and It just takes 75-100 years to fully work.

Every time you clean something, you just make something else dirty.

The word "swims" upside-down is still "swims"

100 years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars. Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses.

If you replace "W" with "T" in "What, Where and When", you get the answer to each of them.

Have a good weekend and see you on Monday..