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After RazzleDazzleBoy wins at Sandown- will Holeshot deliver at Lingfield?

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RazzleDazzleBoy will run at Chepstow on Friday - top day for racing in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Good luck and happy Xmas to all at Pant Wilkin.

Happy New Year to all family and friends may you all have a healthy and prosperous 2025. For those who haven’t caught up with me over Xmas - I am confirming that after almost 55 years I will be fully retiring at the end of March this year! I have enjoyed every minute!

We are at Lingfield Park today supporting Rolypolymoly in the first race.

My brother is deaf - that is not a disability but an opening to a fantastic community - a brilliant person who can communicate better than many I know! Happy Birthday David.

Rolypolymoly runs again at Lingfield this afternoon/ on my way to watch!

We know that council tax is a bad way of funding adult #socialcare because it raises less money in areas with highest demand for publicly-funded care. But here’s another reason from Resolution Foundation - council tax puts more of a burden on low income families than wealthier ones. 1/3

ipc.brookes.ac.uk/publications/t… Very proud that my former university colleagues have pulled together my published papers in one place to mark my retirement!

T˙here has not been anything that Mr Starmer and his government has done that makes me regret not voting for them - despite my years of being a labour activist!

Razzle Dazzle Boy is entered to run at Newbury on Saturday! Good luck, I will be there.

Great 2nd place for RazzleDazzleBoy at Newbury today!

Great to be working again with St James Hospital in Dublin (for the last time). Fantastic staff team. Nice to be in Dublin with Kim J Bolton

Those who support a cap on the costs of care for older people might want to consider the impact a version of this has had on admissions to residential care in Ireland. One geriatrician said relatives were dumping elders in care homes to protect their inheritance.

Two more events to support before I retire. Presentation tomorrow to the accelerate programme tomorrow for aspiring Directors and questions from committee of Welsh Assembly next week on hospital discharge. Such important moments at the end of my career!

Holeshot runs at Warwick tomorrow where Kim J Bolton and I will be celebrating my birthday (yesterday) and my retirement (Friday). We are also sponsoring the 3rd race on the card! The lack of rain means there are small fields

I have just completed my last piece of work - now officially retired! Thank you many colleagues for friendship and encouragement over the years!