Tom Roper's Weblog: Newbury and Newmarket

May 16, 2009

A brief stay in hospital stopped me taking an interest in the Dante meeting at York. I return to the fray with today's Juddmonte meeting at Newbury.

Newbury 210: All the aces
Newbury 240: Aqlaam
Newbury 310: Legislate
Newmarket 330: Taikoo
Newbury 345: Exclamation

'The most dangerous man in British librarianship' Anon, 1990s
'An intellectually arrogant Bolshevik'...'his reach exceeds his grasp' Headmaster, 1972
'Dear Sir,
There is a person on your staff called Tom Roper, whom I believe to be a librarian of some kind...' from a letter to the Vice-Chancellor of Sussex University, 26 June 2010