⭐️OUT NOW⭐️ Best Racehorses of 2024 is available via the link below. It hit No.1 in Essays & Sports Journalism on the UK site on its first day live! Amazon prints it, so it's only available to buy there #HorseRacing www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838433155 www.amazon.ie/dp/1838433155

Just taken delivery of my annual copy. A must buy for me every year and highly recommended.

Just got its first #BestSeller badge on Amazon! It's on the Irish site. 505-page, A4-sized book crammed with essays and data #HorseRacing amazon.ie/dp/1838433155 (€35) amazon.co.uk/dp/1838433155 (£30)

⭐️OUT NOW⭐️ Best Racehorses of 2024 is available via the link below. It hit No.1 in Essays & Sports Journalism on the UK site on its first day live! Amazon prints it, so it's only available to buy there #HorseRacing www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838433155 www.amazon.ie/dp/1838433155

Wow, all prior editions have made it to No2 in Horse Racing and/or Essays & Sports Journalism. Best Racehorses of 2024 went straight in at No1 in the latter category! 🥳 Thank you! #HorseRacing #RacingSky amazon.co.uk/dp/1838433155

Now available for delivery to Ireland from the UK site! #HorseRacing #RacingSky 🐎 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838433155

Best Racehorses of 2024 is out, but for now those of us in Ireland need to use .com because it's not yet up as available here on the European sites. Hopefully they'll fix that soon! #HorseRacing #RacingSky #GrandNational 🐎 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838433155 www.amazon.com/dp/1838433155

What a lovely feature in today's Racing Post #HorseRacing #RacingSky 🐎 www.racingpost.com/news/where-a...

Best Racehorses of 2024 should be available on Amazon in the next few days. Meanwhile, here's a preview of the front cover. #HorseRacing #RacingSky #BR24 🐎

The Best Racehorses of 2024 annual will be on sale soon! With approx. 20% more content than previous editions, it is in A4 paperback instead of 6x9. As always, only available via Amazon (because they print it). Best Racehorses of 2025 may be hardback instead. #HorseRacing #BR24 🐎 #RacingSky

The light level from this partial eclipse doesn't look any different to that of most mornings in Ireland this year. 🧐 Bit of an anticlimax lol

#BR24 is done aside from the final big index, which is underway. That will take about 2 weeks to complete. Then there's just a few final bits to be done to ready the manuscript for publication to Amazon's KDP. Best Racehorses of 2024 is a 500+ page A4 size book + won't be in shops #HorseRacing 🐎

Interesting dilemma in the editing process on Best Racehorses of 2024. The choice is either to chop 15-20% of the content (the printers, Amazon, have a strict page limit) or increase the page size. Doing the latter. If it works out then hardback option for BR of 2025 #HorseRacing #BR24

The photo of the multiple Group 1 star who will adorn the cover of Best Racehorses of 2024 has arrived, pedigree charts are being added to the manuscript, and the next round of editing is under way. #NearlyThere #HorseRacing #BR24 #RacingSky 🐎

Round 1 Edit has been completed on Best Racehorses of 2024. Now the manuscript is to be compiled from Scrivener into its Word template so the pedigree charts can be added and the formatting applied, and then The Big Edit begins. #BR24 #HorseRacing #NearlyThere #RacingSky 🐎

Amazon has finally made Best Racehorses of 2023 available to buy on their UK site for people living in Ireland! That only took 10 months 🤣 #HorseRacing Best Racehorses of 2024 will be out in April. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838433147

Amazon has finally made Best Racehorses of 2023 available to buy on their UK site for people living in Ireland! That only took 10 months 🤣 #HorseRacing Best Racehorses of 2024 will be out in April. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838433147

The list of horses still to have their essays written for Best Racehorses of 2024. The Introduction section will be finished next, the manuscript formatted, pedigree charts integrated, and then the various rounds of editing begin. #HorseRacing #BR24 #RacingSky 🐎

Time for a break for some online gaming and then back to work. Just the essays for Bluestocking, City of Troy, Kyprios & Porta Fortuna to go before resuming work on the Introduction. #HorseRacing #RacingSky #BestRacehorsesOf2024 #BR24 🐎

Charyn + Master of The Seas done, Tamfana in progress + Bluestocking, City of Troy, Kyprios, Lake Victoria, Los Angeles & Porta Fortuna the only ones left in the queue. Then the Introduction. Yep, down to the final few essays for Best Racehorses of 2024. #HorseRacing #RacingSky #BR24 🐎

I caught a Hundo Ho-Oh during today's #PokemonGo Shadow Raids, using a remote raid pass 🥳 I caught a shiny Ho-Oh too, but its stats are a bit rubbish lol

Fantastic Moon, Friendly Soul, Hotazhell, Jan Brueghel, Tennessee Stud, Twain, Whistlejacket + White Birch. All ready for next month's editing of Best Racehorses of 2024. #HorseRacing #BR24 #RacingSky 🐎

Another excellent video from the 'Chris and Debby' YouTube channel. #autism #autismacceptance #autismawareness #neurodivergent youtu.be/i2Na0e2GeI0?...

Double Major + Puchkine are the latest Gr1 winners whose essays in Best Racehorses of 2024 are now ready for next month's editing phase. #HorseRacing #RacingSky #BR24 🐎

Essays on the classic-winning fillies Ezeliya and Rouhiya have been added to Best Racehorses of 2024 so far today, a day on which I'm a bit distracted by the #PokemonGO Mega Gallade raid day – I caught a shiny one! 🥳 – but that ends at 5pm, so no excuses then haha #HorseRacing #RacingSky #BR24 🐎

This is good, as are plenty more videos on their YouTube channel. #neurodivergent #autism #actuallyautistic #chrisanddebby #autistic #psychology youtu.be/IRdmWyFfJ8k?...

Thank you @writing.ie Keep on keepin’ on …

Poker Face (Fastnet Rock) was in Best Racehorses of 2023, he's in the 'Others of Note' section of Best Racehorses of 2024, and he's the first horse to book his entry in the main essay section of Best Racehorses of 2025. He won the Gr2 Zabeel Mile at Meydan today #HorseRacing #BR24 #BR25 #RacingSky 🐎

Either there's an armed invasion going on in the outskirts of Portlaoise or it's time to change the calendar. Could be both 🧐

Just when you think a section's done. Royal Champion, a half-brother to ill-fated G2W Outbox, returned from Australia, joined Karl Burke's stable + won 10f listed race at Lingfield on New Year's Eve. With his rating + prior record, he's in the Others of Note section, again #HorseRacing #RacingSky 🐎

Al Riffa, Anmaat, Asfoora, Audience, and Auguste Rodin are now ready for updates and editing in February #BR24 #HorseRacing #RacingSky 🐎

Too depressed to do anything on the book today. Have to do the day job tomorrow. Hope to get lots done on #BR24 at the weekend. Hard giving up so much of your life for work that should be your lifelong career but can never come close to earning a living #HorseRacing #RacingSky #NeurodivergentLife

Hope everyone had a good Christmas! I've had fun working on Best Racehorses of 2024. 7 more essays added today. Yes, I'm now working my way through the G1W list. Just 67 horses left to review before I switch to the manuscript's introduction section, which is in progress #fun #HorseRacing #RacingSky🐎

5 essays yesterday and 4 more today including an extended one on Derby favourite The Lion In Winter: a horse that hyped needs a closer look. That leaves only 4 G2W/G3W to go before I start on the G1Ws. I may get another one done tonight. On target to start G1Ws on Wednesday #HorseRacing #RacingSky 🐎

Track-record performance from Godolphin's Measured Time (Frankel), his third GW of 2024, inc 2xGr1. This was a Gr2. 1/2br to Rebel's Romance (Dubawi). Their essays are still to be written for Best Racehorses of 2024. Finishing G2W/G3W this weekend, then moving onto the G1Ws #HorseRacing #RacingSky 🐎

I can see a nose! I’ll get the remaining Gr2/3 winners done this week and then it will be time to get stuck into the Gr1 winners #HorseRacing #RacingSky 🐎

The essays on Lead Artist, Naval Power, Ottoman Fleet, Outbox, Pensee du Jour, Poet Master, Point Lonsdale + Royal Scotsman are now ready for updates and editing in February. Time to wind down for the night, get some sleep, then back to work on Best Racehorses of 2024 🐎 #HorseRacing #RacingSky

Wow, I hope those two Gardaí recover quickly.

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15 more horses written up this weekend, plus another couple in the 'Others of Note' section of Best Racehorses of 2024, and updates to several horses #HorseRacing #RacingSky 🐎

My power has stayed on through #StormDarragh, so far. Hundreds of thousands have not been so lucky. Shout out though to the men and women of the ESB who do such heroic work every time one of these storms hits Ireland!

What a wonderful sire Acclamation was. In addition to 68 stakes winners, inc 7 G1W, he has lots of successful broodmare daughters and his stallion sons include champion sire Dark Angel + rising star Mehmas. He will be missed. #HorseRacing #RacingSky 🐎 www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/a-true-legen...

Calandagan, Iresine, Illinois, and Quddwah done today, plus the 'Others of Note' section is probably complete (there may be one or two more additions) so they're all ready for February's updates and editing. #HorseRacing #RacingSky 🐎

Field of Gold, Grateful, Delacroix, Diego Velazquez, Hamish, and Quantanamera are done, awaiting updates + editing in February. I've something else on the schedule for the next hour or two, but I may get another essay done for Best Racehorses of 2024 before logging for the night. #HorseRacing 🐎

Nothing done yesterday – I was unwell – but I'm back at the desk this morning, coffee in hand, all relevant pdf catalogues and webpages on Screen 2 and the manuscript for Best Racehorses of 2024 is open at the template page for the first horse on today's list: Field of Gold #HorseRacing #RacingSky 🐎

All this ridiculous obsession with juvenile sprint speed in stallions getting huge books of mares each year and yet take a look at the sires getting the top-priced foals in Newmarket today. All classic middle-distance stamina sires, which is what the industry needs more of! #HorseRacing #RacingSky 🐎

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I added 13 more essays to the Best Racehorses of 2024 manuscript over the weekend and three more tonight, plus more horses for the 'Others of Note' section. Tonight's main additions were Kerdos, Legend of Time, and Nakheel. #HorseRacing #RacingSky #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingProcess 🐎

I met quite a few former Group 1 stars during my road trip in 2017. It was a lot of driving in two weeks, but totally worth it, even if I missed whatever joke Pivotal heard during my stop at Cheveley Park Stud. Such a hugely influential stallion. #HorseRacing #RacingSky 🐎

Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (19th century): one who pays great attention to trivial matters as a way of avoiding the important ones.