JUNE

Beverley's evening meeting saw Mark Johnston pass the 50 mark for the year with a cracking four-timer. Attraction won the Hilary Needler Stakes. Events kicked off with Coolbythepool, continued with Great Scott and ended with Penny Cross.

Epsom glory boys were Mark Johnston and David Nicholls. The Middleham trainer won the Listed Woodcote Stakes and the Group 3 Diomed. Kevin Darley partnered Parkview Love in the former, a furiously paced six furlongs which Johnston's winner led nearly all the way. Keith Dalgleish pressed the leader most of the way in the latter.

Dandy Nicholls lived up to his nickname again as Seb Sanders landed the 5f Vodaphone 'Dash', another Listed race, on David Faulkner's Atlantic Viking.

At Royal Ascot, Johnston took five and passed the 70-winner mark for the year. Attraction, an Efisio home-bred by the Duke of Roxburghe, hit the front early doors in the Queen Mary Stakes, a Group 3 race, under Kevin Darley and was never headed. Darryll Holland also made most on Pearl Of Love to land the Chesham for the Middleham trainer and owner Mick Doyle.

Solicitor and amateur rider Serena Brotherton, daughter of horse owner-breeder David, won the York ladies' race and her weight in champagne on the Saturday. She was partnering Mick Easterby's Sporting Gesture. Amateur Carole Williams, champion lady rider, won the Thirsk ladies' race for the second year running, partnering Hertfordshire runner Hollow Jo. The grandson of trainer David Chapman, amateur Richard Clark, won on his granddad's Sharp Hat at Wolverhampton.

Jumps ace Richard Johnson won at Southwell for Kate Milligan. Sharon Watt, well remembered as eventer Sharon Lemon, had a first training win there, with Feanor, owned by husband Bill Watt. For amateur rider Tina Jackson, this was a first win outside point-to-points or hunter chases.

JULY

Early in the month at Catterick, Johnston hit the 75 mark for this term when Dalgleish partnered Whispered Promises, another eye-catching juvenile. The Cherry Hinton was added to the portfolio of Mark Johnston's flying filly, Attraction, in the Group 2 race at the Newmarket July meeting (Darley).

The Kingsley House trainer passed 90 at Ayr when Frankie Dettori deputised for Dalgleish on Carte Sauvage. Doubles at Ayr and Pontefract brought eight wins that week, as Johnston romped to his fastest UK 100 seasonal wins, went through the £1m prize money mark again and, with this tenth successive century, beat the record of nine tons he held last year jointly with Henry Cecil.

The horse that was his record-breaker was Knavesmire Omen at Glorious Goodwood, ridden by Darryll Holland in masterly front-running fashion to take the Goodwood Stakes.

Ann Stokell, whose base is at Brompton on Swale, used to train near Warwick and travelled back there for her first win at the course with Safranine. Haydock saw Kim Tinkler notch a hat-trick on Cripsey Brook, Don Enrico Incisa's latest success story. John Weymes broke a long losing run at Ayr, where Patrick Haslam was also in the winner's enclosure with Moulin de Mougins.

New trainer Iona Craig sent out her first winner from Sandhutton, where she leased part of the Ramsdens' yard. Formerly an assistant to Lynda Ramsden, having earlier worked for Nicky Henderson and Australian trainer Gai Waterhouse, she celebrated her 27th birthday two days before Nellie Melba won, but moved south shortly after.

Richard Fahey lost his 13-times winner Inch Perfect from what was thought to be a brain haemorrhage, as he grazed next to the Butterwick yard.

The trainer is to quit his current premises, owned by his father-in-law Peter Easterby. Fahey bought the Musley Bank complex owned by Colin and Carol Tinkler, with its 38 acres just off the A64 Malton to York road and moved in the early autumn.

Musley Bank tenants Brian Rothwell and Lee Lloyd-James have moved to Nawton and to Jimmy FitzGerald's Norton yard respectively. Colin Tinkler was at that time training in Mijas, Spain, but returned to the south to train this autumn, and Carol is based at Ivy Lea, Scampston, where she trains point-to-pointers and deals in youngstock.

David Thompson, formerly right-hand man to Denys Smith, sent out his first winner as a trainer, as his father-in-law Alan Moore's Sovereign State obliged at Stratford. Geoff Harker, whose training base is on Lord Bolton's estate at Wensley, gained five horses from Leeds-based owner Jordan Lund. He moved them from Newmarket so that he can see them more often.

AUGUST

Lady Bear began slowly in the £100,000 William Hill Showcase Mile at Glorious Goodwood on August 1, but Paul Hanagan cleverly kept her sweet and rode her strongly to overtake and beat a classy field for Richard Fahey. The trainer was in the middle of his move to his new Musley Bank complex.

Nicholls had 12 of the 21 in the Stewards' Sprint on the Friday at Goodwood, but a former inmate, Undeterred, owned by racing supremo Peter Savill, won the race for the in-form David Barron and jockey Dean Mernagh. Barron had landed his 50th winner of the term the previous week at Musselburgh with Baylaw Star.

Ron Barr's Stepastray finally lost its maiden tag in its 51st run at Redcar where the Sunday was due to be the course's family day, but freak thundershowers waterlogged the track, so for the second year the day was cancelled.

Newcastle saw a dead heat that wasn't. The judge couldn't separate Williams Well, trained by Mick Easterby, and Flying Tackle, trained at Denton, Piercebridge, by Michael Dods. Four days later the Jockey Club announced that the Dods "winner" was demoted to second, after the senior judge had been asked to look at the photo finish print. The trainer was not best pleased and withdrew Flying Tackle from a planned race that day at Hamilton.

Alan Swinbank had his first Goodwood winner, Kieren Fallon riding for him on What-A-Dancer. Mark Johnston's Sunday Beverley runner, Masterpoint, partnered by Royston Ffrench, was claimed for £12,000 after the race by Bryan Smart. The Hambleton handler turned this winner out again in rapid time to win at Ripon, again Ffrench doing the business.

SEPTEMBER

September's York meeting opened with a win from a Mick Easterby favourite, Sporting Gesture, under a driving Kieren Fallon ride, beating nephew Tim Easterby's recent Ripon winner Jeepstar a length and a half. Michael Dods was surprised when his two-year-old Doctor One landed the mile maiden race at 100-1 under apprentice Tony Hamilton.

We could have two real Middleham chances for next year's Guineas races at Newmarket. Doncaster saw Patrick Haslam land the May Hill Stakes with Kinnaird and Mark Johnston take the Champagne Stakes with Lucky Story.

David Chapman landed the Ayr Gold Cup with Quito, partnered by Tony Culhane. The Stillington trainer is in his 37th season with a Flat licence, but had never landed the Ayr race.

Ayr's first day gave Royston Ffrench another chance to shine for a northern trainer, when he rode Xpressions for Richard Fahey. Man-of-the-moment Joe Fanning had a double there the next day, winning for Mark Johnston on Tafaahum and Gold History.

OCTOBER

Patrick Haslam sent out another winner for the Blue Lion gang with Blue Empire. David Barron hit the 60-winner mark for the season with Partners In Jazz at Hamilton.

Kim Tinkler, the jockey and wife of Langton trainer Nigel, is very fond of Henry Hall - and the Epsom win over five furlongs on her favourite will have only added to her fondness for him. "He's my pet," she said.

Redcar saw Wensley trainer Geoff Harker, whose yard is on Lord Bolton's estate, with a first Flat winner, thanks to Tony Culhane. The rider took a double at the seaside course.

Richard Fahey's Lady Bear was a valiant fourth to reward each-way punters in the Cambridgeshire at Newmarket.

Frankie Dettori was booked by trainer Kevin Ryan for that old campaigner Halmahera in Ascot's five-furlong dash. The northern raider, partnered by the Italian, snatched a share of the spoils in a dead heat with Andrew Balding's Speed Cop. Ryan took a cross-country two, with Dilsaa winning a novice hurdles race at Hexham, and followed up at Ayr with Raymond's Pride.

Mark Johnston burst through the £2m prize money level when Keith Dalgleish won on Nero's Return at Doncaster. Dalgleish followed up for his boss at Nottingham aboard Asiatic, another Sheikh Mohammed-owned juvenile.

Royston Ffrench added another win for Richard Fahey at Redcar, partnering Opening Ceremony. This gave the trainer 50 winners for the year.

NOVEMBER

The final fling at Doncaster as far as Flat racing on turf was concerned for this year, and how marvellous to see Scott's View land the CIU Serlby Stakes, a Listed race, under Joe Fanning for Mark Johnston.

Amateur rider Kelly Harrison won on the David Nicholls-trained Locombe Hill. Fellow lady rider and Middleham personality Carol Williams, who partnered one for Newmarket handler William Haggas, could only finish 12th, but still won the women amateurs' title for the year.

Joint runner-up was Lorraine Ellison, daughter of trainer Brian, on 56. Serena Brotherton, daughter of horse-breeder/owner David, was not far behind on 46 in fifth place.

But winners on the level continued as the all-weather tracks came into their own and both Patrick Haslam and Kevin Ryan won at Wolverhampton. Haslam's winner, Maunby Raver, was a first English win for young Irish apprentice Rory Moore, 19, who had been with the Middleham trainer for just over a month.

On the jumps front, Carol Williams had ridden Haslam's Positive Profile three times to win on the level and represented the stable when Robert Thornton partnered him over hurdles to win easily in the Kelso novice event. Fellow Middleham trainer Jedd O'Keeffe welcomed his win with Beat The Heat at the Scottish borders course, a follow-up to his recent Aintree win, after a quiet Flat season with just the one winner.

Hunting to the West of Yore was the secret, jockey Niall Hannity said, after winning the conditional riders' event on The Maserati Kid for Geoff Harker, as a spin behind the hounds and jumping a stone wall and gate seemed to have woken up the recent stable arrival.

Patriarch Express won three times in rapid succession for Harker during the month, to earn his trainer's description of "a serious horse" and definitely one for the Arkle.

DECEMBER

Patrick Haslam had a cracking start, winning at Doncaster with the ultra-consistent Positive Profile, at Catterick with King Revo and at Southwell on the all-weather with Mr Mischief.

Peter Beaumont won at Catterick with Sharpastrizam, his first success for more than 200 days. This may have been a little consolation for the Brandsby trainer and jockey Russ Garritty after the tragic loss of Bobby Grant at Haydock.

Howard Johnson had a sparkling day at Sandown with a double, both partnered by Graham Lee. All the big-money spend by millionaire and computer king Graham Wylie was paying off. He gave 110,000gns for Inglis Drever, formerly with Sir Mark Prescott, and enjoyed watching his purchase land the William Hill Winter Novices' Hurdle, a first Grade 2 win for Wylie. Scotmail Boy won the staying handicap chase for owner George Tobitt, one of the yard's long-standing patrons.

It was rumoured that Mary Reveley would retire when she hit the 2,000 career winners mark, but she scotched those thoughts after a Sandown-Wetherby double.

Overstrand landed the Listed William Hill Handicap Hurdle at the southern meeting, Ruby Walsh partnering the northern raider to a fourth successive win. Amateur Owyn Nelmes took the two-mile handicap hurdle on course specialist Konker at Wetherby.

Vinnie Keane rode out his claim at the Yorkshire course when winning on Great As Gold for Brian Ellison, a third hurdles success for the four-year-old.

Jim Turner had been ten months without a win, but Bruce Gibson provided one in the novices' handicap hurdle at Gosforth Park, partnering Hopeful Chance