A morning at stover Country Park today, A great place to photograph wild birds. Today a stunning Mandarin duck and a beautiful family of 8 signets.  Stover Country Park contains over 114 acres of woodland, heathland, grassland, lake and marsh and a substantial variety of wildlife. It is a site ofContinue Reading

Great to see the Cornish weather doing its best to impress G7 world leaders.  Visiting Helston yesterday the weather was on the deck and nothing flew from RNAS Culdrose.  It’s just as I always remember it from holidays to Cornwall in August as a kid – dull, damp and depressing! Continue Reading

Sam Twiston-Davies provided a solid reason why I’ve long placed tremendous emphasis on jockeyship when winning on the somewhat recalcitrant Dr Richard Newland-trained Olympic Conqueror over two tense miles of Uttoxeter last Thursday; a short-head verdict over Ambassador doesn’t tell half the story. Alright so it was the second legContinue Reading

Another short-priced ‘professional special’ double yesterday became a ‘full house’ because C’mon Kenny was withdrawn earlier due to over-watering at Nottingham, again!   Income is a time-handicap ‘special’ expected to bring reward for serious punters in a twelve-runner Maiden Fillies’ Stakes over six furlongs of ‘good to firm’ Goodwood tonight;Continue Reading