Off to Mallory in the morning, is anyone else going? We're supporting Nicole McAleer who is not only a good rider but a really lovely girl. We met the family last year through her uncle and aunt and what a brilliant lot of people, we left there last year feeling we had known them all our lives!

Give her my best wishes. I haven't seen her since she did a Joey Dunlop Foundation draw for me at Knockhill a couple of years ago, but I do try to keep in touch by email. She's a real star....John McGuiness said so that day!