If everything fell into place and everyone is satisfied then we would aim for the start of the turf Flat season.

If the jumps track is already frozen on Thursday, we will action the all-weather meeting.

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it whenHe's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion

I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.

For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.