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February 2019 newsletter

In these newsletters, I sometimes write about the weather conditions in the previous month, and sometimes I do not. This implies that I tend to report on unusual weather, for example the extraordinarily warm and sunny mid-October day on which the 2018 Velka Pardubicka was run, and to ignore the normal spring, summer and autumn days that predominate every year.

Jaromír Šafář will remain in Germany after a successful season

In 2017, Jaromír Šafář won the title of Czech champion jockey on the flat, and took on a new challenge in Germany, accepting an offer to work for trainer Pavel Vovčenko. His first season in Germany has now come to an end, but within the framework of that season he also rode in a total of 77 races in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

A conversation with Martina Krejčí, General Secretary of the Jockey Club of the Czech Republic, about the 2018 season, plans for the future, and changes in the JCCR

This interview, in which Miloslav Vlček discusses a range of topics with Martina Krejčí, general secretary of the Jockey Club of the Czech Republic, first appeared in Czech language on the Fitmin-Turf Magazin website at the end of December 2018.

December 2018 newsletter

At the beginning of November, as usual, the Czech racecourses began their five-month winter break. As usual, the racing websites and Facebook sites noted that there was a race meeting at Dresden, north of Prague and with a similar climate, almost three weeks after our final race day in the Czech Republic. Would it not have been possible to extend our season?

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