The Shades Of Midnight Award will be presented to the connections of the horse judged to have put up the most stirring performance (or performances) at Kelso during the jumps season.

The winner need not even have won a race – only to have stirred hearts – and will be selected from a shortlist made up entirely from horses nominated by Kelso racegoers…

This week I received a call from someone at the BBC, asking if we had any old racing objects, preferably with an interesting story behind them, that needed fixing.

“Of course,” I said, “we have an old Grandstand…”

There’s a reason why 43 bottles of Scotch Whisky are exported, to countries all around the World, every second.

Quite apart from the fact that it’s a captivating and delicious reflection of the beautiful Scottish landscape: it purifies the mind so that we forget stuff. And life is so much richer when we forget…

Apparently God planned to use wasps to pollinate all the flowers on Earth, but eventually he had to settle for plan Bee…

The UK’s leading confectionary companies have come together to create a compendium of tips that will help families to “Keep Treats Special”.

Most of them appear to be about chocolate, but quite a few are transferable to that other fabulous family treat – a day at the races…

The Herring Queen Final being a novices handicap for mares, the weight allocated to all runners will be key to their chances – we can’t wait to see if there are any jokers in the pack when entries are published on 1st April…

One of the big questions that has arisen since the pandemic is: Where did all the workers go?

Having taken a few days off this week, I’m happy to report that I’ve found them…

One of the greatest strengths of horseracing in Britain is the diversity of the racecourses. There are left-handed ones and right-handed ones, flat ones and hilly ones; they can be urban or countryfied, grand, scruffy, modern, ancient, huge, small, spacious, fun, intimate, awe inspiring or combinations of all the above…

bet365 Morebattle Hurdle Day: a gleaming elixir of undiluted horseracing tonic for the soul.

I gave my friend an elephant for her room. She said thanks, but I said, “Don’t mention it.”

I keep reading that prize money is the most important thing, and that there isn’t enough of it, but that’s not the whole story…