I may have missed it, but this marketing drive that we were promised on the back of tomorrow’s Kauto Star versus Denman potential epic, The Decider, the most anticipated equine match since the heady Arkle/Mill House days, the vehicle that was going to bring all these peripheral racing people into the fold and educate them about the wonders of this great game in order that they would remain within it, and bring their friends and families with them – where is it?Read the rest of this entry »

I had a bad dream last night. I dreamt that The Package didn’t get his head in front before the winning line in the William Hill, but that he was in front a stride after it. One stride. I also dreamt that they moved the final hurdle a half a furlong up the hill and that Get Me Out Of Here didn’t catch Menorah in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle. Would he have caught him in my dream (strange things happen in dreams) if they had had a half a furlong more after the final flight as opposed to before it? Who knows. Interesting thing, though, about the moving of the final hurdle: few people seemed to know about it (in my dream of course). It was a big decision to make, it is a key change to the set-up of the racecourse. Of course, it is the same for all horses, they all have to jump the flight in the same place, but it was a material change to the set-up of the racecourse, we probably should have known (dreamt) about it earlier.Read the rest of this entry »