WHERE PRODIGIOUS YOUNG WELSH TALENT AND FAKE INDIE SNOBBERY MEET

The more astute among you will have noticed that updates to this blog have been few and far between in recent months.

Initially this was due to a major change in personal circumstances, but more recently on account of Betfair securing a number of articles from me for its betting.betfair.com website.

Several of these were pertinent only to the given week's racing, but the most recent five have concerned subject matter that I would have had every intention of raising on That Racing Blog in other circumstances. As such, I have little hesitation in posting links to them on this site.

(Well, obviously I do have some hesitation, as the first was published six weeks ago, but you know what I mean...)

Anyone who listened to Timeform Radio's start-of-"proper"-season podcast back in October will have been left in little doubt whom I regarded as the jockey to follow throughout 2008-9, and so far this term I don't think I have been proven too far wrong by what I have seen of him. The "fake indie snobbery" bit probably needs a little more explanation - read on;

http://betting.betfair.com/horse-racing/jockeys/ladies-and-gentlemen-meet-the-next-great-jumps-jockey-r-010209.html