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Horse Racing: Simon can have Mercy on us all

THERE will be only one tougher performer than Simon in the paddock before Saturday's John Smith's Grand National. That is his no-nonsense...
Sunday Mirror, 03/30/08 by ALASTAIR DOWN RACING'S No1 WRITER · More from publication
Simon can have Mercy on us all

THERE will be only one tougher performer than Simon in the paddock before Saturday's John Smith's Grand National. That is his no-nonsense...
Sunday Mirror, 03/30/08 by ALASTAIR DOWN RACING'S No1 WRITER · More from publication
Horse Racing: It's a Grand idea to Phil yer boots

WE ARE used to freezing cold and piercing gales marking the start of the Flat, but Easter falling with a week of March still to run is bonkers. ...
Sunday Mirror, 03/23/08 by ALASTAIR DOWN RACING'S No1 WRITER · More from publication
Horse Racing: HE'S CLINICAL, BRUTAL.. AND SO BEAUTIFUL

DENMAN, a pulverising powerhouse of a people's horse, gilded a golden age of steeplechasers when pounding home seven lengths clear of a hugely...
Sunday Mirror, 03/16/08 by ALASTAIR DOWN RACING'S NO.1 WRITER · More from publication
Horse Racing: TAKING THE PUNJ

PAULA RADCLIFFE'S stamina, Bill Gates's cash, balls made of crystal, a double-glazed liver and the patience of all the saints ever canonised. ...
Sunday Mirror, 03/09/08 by ALASTAIR DOWN RACING'S No1 WRITER · More from publication
Horse Racing: It's time to take a great big bite of Lunch

WITH the Festival looming ever larger in the gunsights it's worth remembering that, away from all the hype and hoopla of the big races, there is...
Sunday Mirror, 03/02/08 by ALASTAIR DOWN RACING'S No1 WRITER · More from publication

A golden duel to thrill the nation

AT 3.15pm in 20 days' time jump racing will take pride of place smack at the centre of the sporting world, a piece of high ground it makes its own...
Sunday Mirror, 02/24/08 by alastair DOWN RACING'S No1 WRITER · More from publication
Sizing matters for the bookies

WE ARE in that strange no-man's land of betting on the Cheltenham Festival. This is the punting doldrums, after the completion of nearly all...
Sunday Mirror, 02/17/08 by ALASTAIR DOWN RACING'S No1 WRITER · More from publication
SI OF RELIEF

HAD you been pottering along one of London's posher pavements on Tuesday you might have spotted some famous faces far from their familiar settings....
Sunday Mirror, 02/10/08 by ALASTAIR DOWN RACING'S No1 WRITER · More from publication
Horse Racing: First degree Murtagh

JOHNNY MURTAGH was a very handy boxer in his younger days. But by far the toughest opponent he ever met - and the one who nearly decked him...
Sunday Mirror, 02/03/08 by ALASTAIR DOWN RACING'S No1 WRITER · More from publication