15 March 2012
CHELTENHAM day three, and the hangovers have already set in – directly in proportion to the volume of losers and resultant quantity of Guinness consumed.
14 March 2012
WRITING this in advance of the first days proceedings, I am just hoping there have been a few winners on day one to have kept us ticking over and that…
12 March 2012
DO you smell that? The extra feel of electricity going round is not a power surge from the National Grid, it's in the air because Cheltenham is finally…
09 March 2012
GRAEME Munro stands on the verge of claiming the most significant title to date for the fledgling Highland Boxing Academy. The bantamweight dominated…
09 March 2012
THE evening reception for the recent visit of the American curling tour caused the postponement of four out of the five round eight games in Leslie Hairdressing…
06 March 2012
WE had three winners and a second from only five selections last week in what proved another good week for The Yorkshireman, keeping us in good form as…
02 March 2012
TERRIFIC spread of racing at the weekend with more preparations in the run up to Cheltenham and Aintree festivals.
02 March 2012
INVERNESS Ice Centre hosted for the first time last week a very successful Royal Caledonian Curling Club women’s branch week- long competition for the…
02 March 2012
GRAEME Munro defied a chest infection to reach the last four in his division of the Senior Scottish Open Championships.
28 February 2012
RACING on Wednesday at Southwell, Folkestone and Bangor over National Hunt rules and a twilight card at Kempton Park, where the class is quite a far cry…
23 February 2012
RACING on Saturday will provide a real test, with cards at Newcastle and Chepstow, where the severity of their trademark stiff finishes will be severely…
21 February 2012
IT was a nearly day for me on Saturday with Swincombe Flame, Medermit and Bobs Worth all failing to win but running well.
17 February 2012
SPRINTER Sacre is a horse I have harped on about for months now and I got on early in the Arkle ante-post market.
17 February 2012
THERE was a winning debut for Ross Houston and a significant triumph for Mitchell Dalton as the two Highland Boxing Academy members turned on the style…
17 February 2012
BARRING catastrophic results in next month’s final round of Inverness Super League Division One, Blair Fraser will win his first-ever title.
14 February 2012
THE north is carrying the torch of national hunt racing, with Musselburgh being the only card on Saturday with their John Smiths Cheltenham trials day.
10 February 2012
ALAN Clyne will not raise his own expectation levels by setting a main target in terms of a ranking position come the end of the year.
10 February 2012
OLYMPIC bronze medallist Georgina Harland is adamant modern pentathlete Mhairi Spence’s Olympic fate is in her own hands and believes she could not be…
10 February 2012
HAVING failed to qualify for last year’s Scottish curling finals, Ewan MacDonald goes in search of adding to his haul of five national titles when the…
03 February 2012
MALCOLM Sutherland might be a busy man as race director of the forthcoming Inverness Half Marathon, but he can still afford himself a smile at the work…