Horses
The glory of Glorious Goodwood
You wouldn’t want to have been collecting the empties from Robins Farm, Chiddingfold, last week. There is no more sociable…
A memorable Royal Ascot
You tend to like a jockey who has just ridden you a 16-1 winner, as Callum Shepherd did last Saturday…
Why would Labour be anti-racing?
Enjoying the election? It was a colleague from my days with CNN who alerted me during Donald Trump’s first contest…
Why experience beats flair at Goodwood
Faced with a field of 13 two-year-olds in the British Stallion Studs EBF Maiden Fillies Stakes at Goodwood last Saturday…
Amo Racing’s Flat supremacy
You don’t often walk into a racing yard and find the trainer engrossed with two owners –apropos of horse names…
The magic of Aintree
However hard some people try to make it a business, jump racing remains a sport and the Grand National its…
The turf
When the nine equine athletes involved in the seven-furlong contest for Newbury’s Saturday highlight, the Group Two BetVictor Hungerford Stakes,…
Riding high
In March 1913 two horse painters met at the Lyceum Club to discuss the establishment of a Society of Animal…
Pet projects
Her Majesty’s love of dogs and horses
Real life
Everything is well and truly burned to a crisp, and we are piling through hundreds of pounds of hay a…
Real life
As he grouted the last tile, five years after the bathroom was finished, I knew the game was up. ‘I…
Real life
After the landowner told us to be out in three weeks, then admitted we had three months to move our…
Real life
The letter arrived in a hand-addressed envelope, inside of which was a handwritten note. After everything we have been through,…
No time for losers
Every red-blooded Englishman has believed that exercise in the open air is the finest prophylactic against popery, adultery and the…
Real life
Not long after he took on a smallholding for his cobs, the builder boyfriend found a couple walking through his…
Real life
Always the National Trust sticker. It feels like every time a car parks across the gateway to my horses’ field…
Real life
The whole of Surrey and south-west London seem to have gone abroad on holiday so I’ve got my sanity back.…
