Tony Coleman
@ruatrindade.bsky.social
Indie beer drinker. Sometime horse racing writer. Now just chilling. Spends a lot of time in north west Spain.
www.theguardian.com/observer/osm... Memories of the stable lads’ strike in 1975…
September 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
www.theguardian.com/observer/osm... Memories of the stable lads’ strike in 1975…
Trying to jog the memory. Suspect I probably couldn’t resist a small each-way at that price, though something tells me I might have backed Blue Bridge…
July 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Trying to jog the memory. Suspect I probably couldn’t resist a small each-way at that price, though something tells me I might have backed Blue Bridge…
Meta asking another of those eternal questions…
June 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Meta asking another of those eternal questions…
They’re still there. Wonder if any Americans turn up to Epsom (or Churchill Downs for that matter) wearing them on Derby Day…
June 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
They’re still there. Wonder if any Americans turn up to Epsom (or Churchill Downs for that matter) wearing them on Derby Day…
One for fans of old war movies coming up the first race at Salisbury…
June 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
One for fans of old war movies coming up the first race at Salisbury…
Surprising what turns up on the wall above the wine section in a Kiwi supermarket…
April 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Surprising what turns up on the wall above the wine section in a Kiwi supermarket…
I’ll do my best to watch the replays without knowing the results over my breakfast cuppa. Somehow don’t think I’ll manage to stay up for the first when I’ve enjoyed an evening in Rotarua’s oldest pub…
March 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I’ll do my best to watch the replays without knowing the results over my breakfast cuppa. Somehow don’t think I’ll manage to stay up for the first when I’ve enjoyed an evening in Rotarua’s oldest pub…
Cheers. Arrived here in Auckland just after 6am, cleared their strict customs and biosecurity within the hour, and now killing time waiting to check in the hotel…
March 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Cheers. Arrived here in Auckland just after 6am, cleared their strict customs and biosecurity within the hour, and now killing time waiting to check in the hotel…
Amazing what turns up on an Air New Zealand flight: Kiwi. The story of the 1983 Melbourne Cup winner.
March 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Amazing what turns up on an Air New Zealand flight: Kiwi. The story of the 1983 Melbourne Cup winner.
This was how yesterday’s NYT played out…
February 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This was how yesterday’s NYT played out…
The best I can do is refer to the original Connections. You are picking groups of four to form a correct line of the same colour…
February 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The best I can do is refer to the original Connections. You are picking groups of four to form a correct line of the same colour…
Shock after the first race at Plumpton. They’ve already run out of draught Harvey’s in the Tatts bar. So much for Savill’s grand plans for British racing when his racecourse can’t even stock a bar properly!
February 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Shock after the first race at Plumpton. They’ve already run out of draught Harvey’s in the Tatts bar. So much for Savill’s grand plans for British racing when his racecourse can’t even stock a bar properly!
Hendo’s sponsor getting plenty of exposure round the course at the cyclocross worlds. Looks like you’d definitely get your toe in…
January 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Hendo’s sponsor getting plenty of exposure round the course at the cyclocross worlds. Looks like you’d definitely get your toe in…
Today I’m drinking bad beer so you don’t have to…
January 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Today I’m drinking bad beer so you don’t have to…
La Giralda in Sevilla on a foggy January evening…
January 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
La Giralda in Sevilla on a foggy January evening…
Come in Number 6…
January 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Come in Number 6…
Can’t quite match the location, but happily settled into O’flannagans with this Hazy IPA from Girona’s Gro…
January 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Can’t quite match the location, but happily settled into O’flannagans with this Hazy IPA from Girona’s Gro…
Sounds like might be this…
January 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Sounds like might be this…
Very pleasing performance in the mares at Newbury…
January 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Very pleasing performance in the mares at Newbury…
Don’t let me hear anyone complain about pop concerts being the worst thing to host on British racecourses…
January 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Don’t let me hear anyone complain about pop concerts being the worst thing to host on British racecourses…
Vague attempt at walking some of it off…
December 30, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Vague attempt at walking some of it off…
Showing riders turned jockeys. Cue Nico, and off top of head think Laura Pearson and stretching back Guy Landau. Must be others…
December 27, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Showing riders turned jockeys. Cue Nico, and off top of head think Laura Pearson and stretching back Guy Landau. Must be others…
Well that’s all right then. Zero consideration given to the poor sups who turned up and paid through the nose to witness an afternoon of this. And don’t they say that TV cameras enhance what you see?…
December 27, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Well that’s all right then. Zero consideration given to the poor sups who turned up and paid through the nose to witness an afternoon of this. And don’t they say that TV cameras enhance what you see?…