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Over 30 years ago, my ear caught the Coalfields twang from Billy Hill but it continues with Gary Harley, a far decibel from Lizzie Jelfs. Seasoned around Newcastle on a gravel foundation like a rough Hunter Valley red, Harley is a current stablemate of Jelfs, by comparison a refined English breakfast tea with the vowels that emanated from her birthplace, Oxford, in the UK.

There are lots of sayings about green horses and green riders. My favorite, because of its sheer simplicity, is “green plus green equals black and blue.”

Given the number of big race wins enjoyed by Colin Tizzard this season, it is worth pointing out that it is still Paul Nicholls who leads the trainers’ championship – and that without any top stable stars. Here’s a question – can you name the highest-rated horse trained by P Nicholls right now? Tricky one.

Tim Masters came up with the idea to benefit all kinds of horses. And he hopes the spa will bring more revenue to the 1838 track, the oldest continuously operated horse racing track in North America and a National Historic Landmark.

Cash, her 30-year-old Paint horse, helped the horse rider and trainer through difficult times. The horse died on Monday, Jan. 20 after suffering a severe stroke.

Many of the visitors to the expo shared their stories of attending harness races in the past or showed great interest in attending Rosecroft to watch harness racing for the first time. We also heard from owners of off the track Standardbreds and how great they were at a variety of different disciplines.

… stakes. Disco Chick returned $5.40 and $3.30. Hot City Girl held third as the 9-5 favorite, paying $2.50 to show. As sports columnist, Paul Woody offers an array of commentary on the sports scene in columns and World of Woody videos.

“Snooky” Cowan is still coming to grips with his first Group I win as a trainer and thinks it will take a while to sink in. Cowan, 55, a former top jumps jockey, said Signify’s win the $250,000 JR & N Berkett Telegraph at Trentham on Saturday had a to rate as his number one achievement as a trainer.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN – Anne Murray has participated in the Fort Worth Stock Show All Western parade since she was a child, but she began driving in the parade in 2000.

Each day we will mark your card, providing a preview of the day’s racing and offering what the experts feel will be the value bets of the day. Our NAP struck again on Friday, to take a look at our Lucky 15 selections for the British meetings on Friday, January 13, 2017.

Minikus has taken the reins of riding Valinski S, who jumped in the 201 Rio Olympic Games with Australian rider Matt Williams. And he piloted the 15-year-old Dutch Warmblood to the top of the $35,000 Ruby et Violette WEF Challenge Cup Round 1 in the International Arena at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center.

PLANS for a new all-weather racecourse in Newmarket have been unveiled as part of a 10-year 500 million investment plan by The Jockey Club. Cllr Amy Starkey, managing director of Newmarket Racecourse, told the News: “The overall project is very exciting for Newmarket and the local area.

Nicky Henderson could give O O Seven the chance to get his season back on track at either Warwick or Huntingdon this weekend. The seven-year-old was an impressive winner at Cheltenham on his chase debut in November but fluffed his lines when stepped up to three miles and Grade Two company at Doncaster last month.

CALM AND READY: Spreyton trainer Adam Trinder with his horse Jerilderie Letter ahead of the 2017 Devonport Cup. Picture: Paul Scambler.

Australia’s biggest online bookmaker expects star Tasmanian galloper Jerilderie Letter to thwart the challenge of leading Victorian trainer Darren Weir in Wednesday’s $100,000 Devonport Cup. Although Sportsbet is not taking any risks with the Weir-trained Leica Day, it rates Jerilderie Letter a clear favourite at $3.40 in its fixed-odds market.

The leading money winner in North American racing history went for a jog at Gulfstream Park early Sunday, two days after arriving to prepare for the $12 million Pegasus World Cup on Jan. 28. California Chrome has never raced in Florida, and his brisk pre-dawn trek onto the Gulfstream dirt – on an unseasonably chilly morning, the 48-degree air feeling colder in the wind – was the first of many scheduled for the next few days. He’s set to have daily early morning gallops until Saturday, when the plan calls for him to breeze five furlongs.

His status for the $12 million Pegasus World Cup may be up in the air due to the quarantine at continues to get cranked for whatever is on the horizon, turning in a bullet six-furlong move in 1:13 1/5 Jan. 7 at the New Orleans track. While trainer Steve Asmussen has been prepping the chestnut colt in anticipation of a possible run in the inaugural Pegasus World Cup Jan. 28, the biggest obstacle is the fact no horses are currently allowed to ship in or out of Fair Grounds due to an outbreak of equine herpesvirus at the facility.

California Chrome and Arrogate will meet once more on the track. Before that, an off-track race will be settled.

IT’S a busy start to 2017 in Scotland and it all gets under way with a cracking New Year’s Day meeting at Musselburgh. Racegoers have plenty to keep them entertained as the horseracing will be supplemented by the 148th New Year Sprint, a 110m dash for professional athletes dating back to 1870.

If you’re on the lookout for an impressive warmblood, take a look at our selection of horses for sale on the Horse & Hound website this week. AES pink papered Warmblood has been backed and ridden away before being put in foal.

From horsey stereotypes to the day-to-day struggles we are all too familiar with, check out the humorous articles that have proven to be most popular with Horse & Hound readers during the past 12 months Everyone knows that riders are a gutsy crowd – you need a fair amount of courage to throw yourself over a sizeable hedge or a gaping ditch. But it turns out we’re fairly fearless when it comes to stripping off too.

… ng of top harness and thoroughbred racing plus 3-game parleys of NFL games is available in the Dover Downs Racing and Sports Book, daily from 12 Noon to 12 Midnight.

… But, rather than providing for the poor, the Roman collections went on gambling at their Winter Festival games and sports. The Roman collecting boxes were made from rough earthenware, with a slit to drop the coins through. Interestingly, some …

Trained in Newmarket by Amy Murphy, having previously been in the care of Charlie Longsdon, the seven-year-old mare is already a Listed winner over hurdles. But she is also going along nicely over fences and did more than enough at this track on December 10 to warrant support at the same grade.

MERRY: Ahead of Tuesday’s December 27 meeting, Gav Pilossof is hoping for more trainers at Towac Park in the new year. Photo: PHIL BLATCH Currently the facility houses just four trainers – Michael Plummer, Lee Van Den Bos, Alison Smith and Sonja Sharp – and Pilossof was hopeful 2017 would bring about a few more horses to the Towac Park stables.

Gore Cup contender Captain Dolmio with some of his owners, from left, David Rance, Matt Brinsdon, Gus Osborne and Matt Breen. He trains two horses there and on Tuesday, one of them, Captain Dolmio, will probably start favourite in the Gore Cup.

Strategic Metals Ltd. announces that its board of directors has unanimously approved a proposal to undertake a spin-out transaction to segregate some of its assets into a separate company. Under the terms of the proposed transaction, Strategic will transfer its Eureka, Triple Crown and Treble projects in Yukon and sufficient cash to qualify for a listing on the TSX Venture Exchange to Trifecta Gold Ltd. , a wholly-owned subsidiary, in return for Trifecta shares, most of which will then be distributed to Strategic shareholders by way of a plan of arrangement.

My travels often take me past a harness racetrack. As I pass and look out my window, I see the back of the big brick grandstand, a sign with the name of the racetrack and a huge, often empty, parking lot.

Twelve months ago I was capering around the paddock at Chaddesley Corbett celebrating my second win as an owner. This time around, I’ll be leading up one of the horses in Gina and Tom Ellis Racing’s Ice And A Slice Racing Club.