Weekend Jottings!

Surely the Racing Post must have a better picture of Henry Cecil than the one they used in yesterday's paper.  Apparently on St Patrick's Day Henry will be making his first visit to the Cheltenham Festival Meeting in March - I find that really difficult to believe.  Maybe I will be able to persuade him to join us in our hospitality marquee?  I stayed with Henry at Warren Place a few years ago along with MCP and AP and I still have the picture of the four of us holding gold cups from Henry's Group One collection hanging on my wall.  He put me up in a room full of thousands of metal soldiers from The Charge of the Light Brigade (Battle of Balaclava, 1854) - I was kept awake all night by the noise they were making!

Looking at the weather reports for the next few days, there looks to be a good chance that we might get a few more jump meetings next week.  Plumpton seem to be optimistic about Monday - let's just hope they are right.

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I wish I had the insight to get a job in football.  Where else can you meet with no success, get the sack, get a handsome pay-off and then get another job that incorporates a pay-rise?...Start searching for a job for your kids now!