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A Handsome Sailor gone too soon

Ian Carnaby's Racing News | February 15th, 2024

Cambridge came and went too soon. I see that now and foolishly think of going back, even at this late stage, to write a thesis on some aspect of Marcel Proust’s oeuvre that others have missed. Three years half a … Read More »

Chubby rides The Carousel – with a little help from his friends

Ian Carnaby's Racing News | January 10th, 2024

For quite a long time I couldn’t work out why Charles Benson entered my thoughts as often as he did. He’s been gone for several years and it wasn’t as if we had a great deal in common, though we … Read More »

THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES

Ian Carnaby's Racing News | December 15th, 2023

‘Then, while the wheel is spinning, the Jack of Diamonds is waiting or Hemingway’s bunch of  skins is hurtling towards the furlong pole, we’re not thinking about anything else, regretting anything else or checking the time. This is where we … Read More »

Autumn in New York? Yes please

Ian Carnaby's Racing News | November 12th, 2023

Not long ago, Katey Kontent finished a very good second at Salisbury. She was carrying 9st 10lbs and was up against colts and geldings so it was a very fair effort. I think of all the people on course and … Read More »

Marathon Man required? Send for the Doyler

Ian Carnaby's Racing News | October 16th, 2023

The going at Goodwood has been soft or heavy more often than not this year and nothing changed on their final day in October. You have to make the circumstances work in your favour if possible and that was certainly … Read More »

HIGHS AND LOWS WITH FRED AND ARCHIE

Ian Carnaby's Racing News | September 20th, 2023

If I believed in ghosts I might find Islington Green a suitable starting point for a thesis. Trendy, even chic it may be nowadays but in the seventeenth century it was used as a plague pit  –  a little-known fact … Read More »

A LA RECHERCHE DU FAILAND PERDU

Ian Carnaby's Racing News | August 21st, 2023

Like Marcel Proust, I drift back to the places of my youth. Some have disappeared, some have become something else and some are simply too loud. Actually it might be stretching a point to mention my formative years where the … Read More »

Rainy Day People

Ian Carnaby's Racing News | July 14th, 2023

The rain falls gently yet insistently on the Nine Elms Tavern which, like the rest of the borough, has undergone something of a transformation. One minute it was Battersea’s little-known cousin  –  nondescript flats, a little bit of this and … Read More »

A long way from Alberta –  but Cricklewood will do

Ian Carnaby's Racing News | June 12th, 2023

Gordon Lightfoot died the other day. I dare say only members of my generation will remember him but he was a folk and country singer who let Alberta’s wide-open spaces compensate for disappointments in his personal life. We played him … Read More »

Racing In A Mist – But Memories As Clear As Day

Ian Carnaby's Racing News | May 12th, 2023

George Materna, a dedicated Goodwood supporter, missed the first Saturday in early May. This was because his second daughter (of five) was having her pre-marriage ‘hen’ do in his box. I was the tipster and the only man there. Needless … Read More »

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