I seem to remember that this weekend was very stormy a couple of years ago, when the Sunday of the Cheltenham Open meeting had the last race, a bumper, abandoned because the holes in the ground from where the hurdles had been taken out were filling up...

We've made it to the end of another Flat season. The season, of course, actually ends on 31st December and the new one will start on 1st January (which the keepers of statistics seem unable to take on board) but we still think of the season as being...

It's terribly exciting: love is in the air! Gemma's Facebook page this week has borne the announcement of her changed status: no longer "in a relationship", but now "engaged". There'll be a few broken hearts when word of this gets out, not least...

As we know, there seems to be a big push towards steering trainers into running horses against their better judgement. The Racing Post is particularly keen on this, and I don't know why. As we know, the Racing Post is in favour of making it harder...

Melbourne Cup night was really good fun. I found it easy to stay awake and (reasonably) on the ball, and the racing was really enjoyable, even if history probably won't remember it as one of the more special Cups. Before Cup night, though, we had had...