Foreword by Nick Luck

On Friday, I sent a flyer to previous clients of One Jump Ahead and the Updates, giving full details of the new edition which will be published at the end of this month. If anyone hasn't received the flyer and would like a copy, please email me at mark.howard@mhpublications.co.uk. I am currently adding the final touches to the book before hopefully taking it to the printer next week.  Once again, many thanks to those clients who have already ordered, you're continued support is greatly appreciated.

Nine times Broadcaster of the Year and my Racing TV colleague Nick Luck - who I am working with at Ayr's Western meeting next week - has kindly sent his Foreword through. To give clients a taste of what is in store, I have included a few paragraph's from Nick's masterpiece.

"One Jump Ahead (of its time), which had brilliantly tapped into the increasingly fevered sense of anticipation for the 'winter game' around the turn of the millennium, is still going strong. And unsurprisingly so, given the insatiable appetite for preview on the ever lengthening path to the Cheltenham Festival and quality of insight and foresight provided within these pages. You don't have to go back too far either to unearth the nugget of all ante-post nuggest, as twelve months ago Mark confidently suggested that Banbridge was the King George bet at 33/1. His intuition, combined with a carefully cultivated network of contacts, told him not only that this would be the target, but also how he would arrive there off a slightly unorthodox preparation."

"Understanding the way that trainers think and operate has always been one of the strengths of the book. The identification of Puturhandstogether as last season's Fred Winter winner would be one such example as - let's face it - there were plenty to choose from in that academy. Similarly, Willie Mullins and Dan Skelton had literally hundreds of promising and unexposed novices this time last year. But why did Kopek Des Bordes and The New Lion stride confidently into Mark's Top 40 Prospects in late summer?"