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The turf

The strange superstitions of the racing world

1 March 2025

9:00 AM

1 March 2025

9:00 AM

In racing, superstitions are rife. I once saw a trainer remonstrate with an owner for displaying a green handkerchief: green, he insisted, was unlucky (although it doesn’t seem to work that way for owners Simon Munir and Isaac Souede, whose ‘double green’ colours have been carried to success in many top races).

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