The answer to the biggest question arising from the weekend’s results is Newbury, Ludlow and Huntingdon. Because the thing about Venetia Williams, who enjoyed her first winners of the year – the first in fact for eight and a half frustrating weeks and seventy runners – when first Jeu d’Opale…

Bloody hell, some of horse racing’s top brass drive you mad. At all four fixtures that I attended over the Christmas/New Year holiday – Chepstow, Newbury, Warwick and Windsor – there were springs in steps and smiles on faces to rival the terrific atmospheres and generally favourable weather as news…

Let’s be clear, if the King George VI Chase and the Christmas Hurdle need a new home in, as is being suggested, the not too distant future because the Jockey Club sells Kempton, the JC shouldn’t have the automatic right to determine their future. The iconic races are not ‘owned’…