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There is a fatality review into every racecourse death (and non-fatal injury) conducted in depth by the BHA in conjunction with several involved parties. When there is more than one death at a meeting there is an extra layer to the investigation. Details can be found here...

Whilst I agree that this is tragic, it would be useful if the BBC reported the facts correctly. Those are not the sort of errors I would expect from a national broadcaster. The youngest horse was 4 (it's not any better, but it's at least accurate), and Harry Derham was not the jockey, but the...

As a vet (and I appreciate that means I see plenty of the bad side) my first question is always 'are you prepared to lose them?'. And I don't generally add 'and could you live with making the decision to breed if you did'. You can come out of choosing to breed with 2 horses, one, or none. And...

The 1* review on Amazon for the first book in the series picks up on this theme. And is hilarious!

Nice to see El Fabiolo with his nose back in front! (And his feet underneath him...!)

Ah, but you got the lovely Lecky Watson for me!

We watched Lossiemouth in the stables at Donnie, 3 of us round a phone. We thought Brighterdaysahead had her beaten!

I was at Donnie. It was cold. As ever!

Interesting to see Harry Cobden go over for a couple of rides! And great to see good old Bob Ollinger in good form!

I'm very lucky in that although I have obviously worked with some household name horses, I have got to see those from other yards in the flesh too in the racecourse stables. The Henderson horses - Shiskin, Constitution Hill, Altior, Sprinter Sacre etc are always stand outs, but I did love...

He really is lovely. I plaited him up once!

It's a long time since I've seen such a brilliant jump on a novice chaser as Kitzbuhel.

Having experience with a different charity they were moving towards unridden homes for a variety of reasons. Many of their 'unridden companions' would be fine to ride. However in times when charity donations are plummeting they had had to cut back on staff, and the staff capable of riding...

No, but working at Huntingdon tomorrow. Il Etait Temps.... 👌😍

I I apologise for not explaining myself this late in the evening, but essentially this post covers it in a fairly basic way: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DBcQ7ySZo/