News The Major’s Weekly Roundup 02/02/25 February 2, 2025 / February 9, 2025 by Major Dickie Hello again and it’s great to be back. Fully charged up and ready to enjoy this first week back after my break and of course the Dublin Racing Festival at the weekend. This week the weather has improved temperature wise but the rainfall has caused the problems. On Monday we lost Hereford and meetings at […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Roundup 19/01/25 January 25, 2025 by Major Dickie Monday saw the return of Billy Loughnane to the track in the UK after 2 months spent down under in Australia. At Lingfield, Stage Winner was his first ride back and the very short priced favourite obliged for owner Qatar Racing and trainer George Boughey. Regarding the trainer, it was announced he had purchased a […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Roundup 12/01/25 January 12, 2025 / January 12, 2025 by Major Dickie This weeks update is rather low on racing content as the week was decimated by the cold weather and 13 meetings in the UK and Ireland were lost. Monday saw Ayr and Wolverhampton take place. Ayr saw Nick Alexander and Lucinda Russell both train 2 winners each. The following day a 9 race card from […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Roundup 05/01/25 January 5, 2025 / January 5, 2025 by Major Dickie Taunton’s Monday card included a Listed Mares Novice Hurdle. Jubilee Alpha travelled strongly for Harry Cobden and won readily. The Paul Nicholls charge reversed form with Listentoyourheart from Newbury a month earlier in no uncertain terms. Over at Haydock on the soft ground Saint Xavier at the ripe old age of 12 took the staying […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Roundup 29/12/2024 December 31, 2024 / December 31, 2024 by Major Dickie After 3 blank days, Boxing Day arrived and the racecourse action served up was top notch. Starting at Kempton the Grade I Kauto Star Novices Chase over 3 miles saw The Jukebox Man take the honours beating Hyland by two and a half lengths. A well deserved Grade I for owner Harry Rednapp, trainer […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Roundup 22/12/2024 December 22, 2024 by Major Dickie This week is usually the calm before the storm of Christmas week and New Year fixtures. A couple of nice bulletins to start the week. Firstly, Tony Carroll has trained 100 winners in a calendar year for the first time; many congratulations. Secondly on Monday, Rachael Blackmore returned to race riding at Naas after nearly […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Round Up 15/12/24 December 17, 2024 / December 17, 2024 by Major Dickie The week started with Sean Bowen riding his 100th winner of the season on Dominics Fault for his trainer Olly Murphy at Lingfield. Awful news came from across the water when we learnt of the death of Ferny Hollow. The Cheveley Park Stud owned Champion Bumper winner of 2020 fell the previous day at Cork in […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Round Up 08/12/24 December 8, 2024 by Major Dickie We lost Ffos Las on Monday to the weather. The Horse Race Writers and Photographers annual lunch took place as usual at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London. An unusual winner in a sense, was amateur jockey and son of Willie, Patrick Mullins who took the Writing Award for his musings in the trade paper, […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Round Up 01/12/24 December 1, 2024 / December 7, 2024 by Major Dickie Well, it was a quiet week until the weekend… No Flat racing this week in the UK but an International Jockeys Challenge took place at the Garrison Savannah racecourse just outside Bridgetown, Barbados on Saturday 30th. Jim Crowley, Hector Crouch and Clifford Lee took part. I have visited myself and it’s a lovely raceday experience. […] Read more »
News The Major’s Weekly Round Up 24/11/24 November 24, 2024 / December 7, 2024 by Major Dickie Hot on the heels of his victory in the Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham, young Freddie Gingell posted a treble at Exeter for Paul Nicholls on Monday. Hector Crouch repeated the feat of three winners at Southwell later in the day. Tuesdays are not usually news driven days outside of Cheltenham and Royal Ascot […] Read more »