I was surprised as anyone when it was announced that Godolphin had acquired Billy Loughnane as a retained rider. I thought it was inevitable that Godolphin would want Loughnane 'on their team' in the near future but for him to immediately become equa...

I am uncertain if Britain, Ireland and Europe have a race to match the Melbourne Cup. Obviously the Cheltenham Festival is unmatched anywhere in the world, as well as Royal Ascot. Yet the Melbourne Cup, though it may not stop a nation as it would bac...

Simon Cox, head man at the B.H.A. (there is something wrong with 'chair', don't you think, almost derogatory, the chair of the B.H.A.. I was about to write that it is not as if the people who assemble with him around a table and called tablers. Then ...

What more can anyone say about Ryan Moore? In my long experience of the flat, over sixty-years, he is, in my opinion, the best of the best. When Frankie was riding, I ebbed and flowed on whether he or Ryan was the better. Ryan was always the more con...

It was said in today's Racing Post that in winning at Down Royal yesterday, Haiti Coulours was winning for the first time at the highest level. I would contend that yesterday's race may have been a Grade 1 steeplechase but it was not of the 'highest ...

I have to feed a neighbour's cat tonight and again on Sunday morning. To give me, and the cat, of course, the best chance of remembering this simple task, I will stick a note to the television, leave the door key next to the kettle and tie a knot in ...