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Mrs B and I spent part of yesterday afternoon at Rockhampton watching Archie play for Gloucestershire 2nds against my old home county of Essex..

From there we were meant to have driven to The John Ratcliffe in Oxford to see my daughter and her three little girls, but she rang early afternoon to tell me that they were moving her, and Savannah and Sienna to Basingstoke..

Apparently, the JR needed two of the three HD cots so they looked to moving all three, plus Pandora to either Swindon or Basingstoke, but neither had enough spare HD Cots for three.. so two moved, and hopefully the third  Araminta will follow shortly.. All rather stressful..

While at Rockhampton watching Archie, a lovely old boy who follows Gloucestershire and lives near Thornbury, asked me if I could find out what has happened, or where Rodney Farrant is/was.. The last he had heard from Rodney was that he was still living just outside Lambourn.. Anyway, if anybody can help please let me know..that would be hugely appreciated and I will pass on the any info..

Wednesday morning.

Ciaran Gethings was in to ride out..

Alan James, John Battershall and Nick Cook all called in to see their respective KBRS horses..It was a long morning!

I head to Worcester this evening to saddle Gerard Mentor and Lady Gwen.. First and last race.. Anyway, for my thoughts please click here.

Bob Mackenzie sent this email over..There were 79 eliminations for Worcester tonight, though many of them will be the same horse eliminated from 2 races. It seems crazy that so many bill paying owners can't get a run. There'll be plenty eliminated from the 0-100 at Abbot on Thursday as well.

There were 22 eliminated from the 7.35 Worcester.  Of the 14 allowed to run, 2 were declared for a similar race on Monday...

Moving on..York Races.. Their top quality 4 day meeting starts today.. I love going to York..

England play Sri Lanka at Old Trafford today.. First day of their three match series.

It was a hot, sultry day, the game was boring, and the two batsmen had put on three runs in the last hour.

Suddenly, outside the ground, the peace was shattered by a car backfiring.

A spectator jumped up and shouted, 'That it! Let's all go home! The scorer's shot himself!'