No mum, I haven't forgotten how to spell Pharoah..  I am writing about a horse, who on Sunday morning Australian time won the Triple Crown in America.  His name is American Pharoah.  It was pretty cool.  I feel completely in love with the American thoroughbred at the moment.  But then again, I think I always was.  Something about growing up refusing to read anything except "The Black Stallion" books I guess...  These stallions are so far my only links to the Triple Crown.  I love each and every one of them. "AK" - 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom.  I took these images during his first photoshoot in September 2013 at Arrowfield Stud.  He's a lot of fun...   I'm in love with this horse.  Medaglia d'Oro.  Apart from siring 2015 Golden Slipper winner Vancouver he's also the sire of Preakness winner Rachel Alexandra.  The first filly in 85 years to win the Preakness. Street Sense.  Ke...

I'm on the plane to Melbourne tomorrow for 2 days.  And am currently pacing my house in frustration and annoyance at myself (and at the fact that no one phoned me when it was discovered 20 mins after I checked out) because I've just discovered that I have left my D4's battery charger in Scone.  There are some that might reassure me that the battery having 2 bars left on it is ok, and I shouldn't be recharging it anyway yet, but I hate going into a Group 1 meeting with my camera not fully charged..  So I'm furious with myself.  It was the tiredness of Sunday that saw me leave it there.  Does it serve me right for sneaking a little top up charge to the battery, when this is supposed to be a no-no?  Can't ask, so I don't know.... I've put in a call to one of my mates at the paper, and he gave me the number of another paper photographer, and so I'm hoping that someone will be able to bring one along, but I couldn't raise him when I phoned.  Will...

It's 1.40am. Why am I still awake and up at my computer?  Well, I've already been to bed once, but I am up after waking at 12.50am after a series of nasty dreams.  I'm on my 2nd cup of tea, I've been awake for almost an hour, the nausea is I hope passing and my heart rate is almost back to normal.  Late yesterday afternoon (Australian time) came the news that one of the best fillies to race in the United States in the past 5 years is (I think) fighting for her life following complications after foaling.  That mare's name is Rachel Alexandra.  She'd just foaled a Bernardini filly and has suffered bruising to her small colon during foaling, and her condition is listed as being 'very serious'. I've not yet travelled to the States with my work (one day!), and so of course have nothing on file of her myself.  But I do have these images of her great sire Medaglia d'Oro, who stands at Darley's picturesque Kelvinside Stud, just outside the s...