I’d prefer to take dry January with a little less ice please…

While the horse’s name suggests an event that occurs twice every year, Equinoctial held a record that stood for 35 years and 27 days until Thursday this week.

Trained by Norman Miller and ridden by Andrew Heywood, the five-year-old bay gelding broke his duck in The Grants Whisky Novices Handicap Hurdle at Kelso Racecourse on 21 November, 1990, becoming the longest priced winner of a race in British history.

Like Shaky, there are times when I wish every day was Christmas: Room is swaying, records playing, all the old songs we love to hear…

Kelso on Sunday: Rug yourself up in a decent waterproof coat, grab a hot port from the Chicken Hutch Bar, and enjoy…

We’ve been getting plastered this week.

Although not how you think… it’s not, for example, that we were so relieved about horseracing being spared some of the largest tax hikes inflicted on betting operators in the Chancellor’s budget.

They wrote a pretty Hornpipe tune in honour of Beeswing, reputed to be the best mare ever to race at Kelso, and a song to celebrate the exploits of The Shunter (who scooped the £100,000 Morebattle Hurdle bonus), but this week’s blog is about two of the unsung heroes of horseracing…

As far as venues go for glitzy award ceremonies, York Racecourse ticks a lot of boxes: large rooms, friendly staff and to easy access by train from North and South – the latter point being a key factor in attracting more than two hundred and fifty guests for the fourteenth annual RCA Showcase Awards Night on Thursday evening…

In the spirit of making the best of an inconvenient situation, here are ten silver-linings to Saturday’s early start at Kelso Racecourse…

The ancient festival of Samhain, marking the end of Summer and the beginning of the cold dark Winter, symbolising the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead, has existed for 2,000 years – but it meant precious little to me in the mid-1980s…

According to Stephen Brusatte, a palaeontologist from just up the road at the University of Edinburgh, the dinosaurs were doing just dandy before a six-mile wide rock hit the planet 66 million years ago. But I wouldn’t bet on it…