Love Me Tender is a 4-year-old, trained by Willie Mullins. He trotted up in a maiden hurdle at Listowel yesterday and is already being touted as a likely winner of one the novice hurdles at the Cheltenham Festival. Love Me Tender is a 5-year-old, tra...

Yesterday, as you all will have noticed, the word 'owner' went missing from the title of the blig-blog. You see, initially I put Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in the title, which of course would have made the title more of a paragraph than a sho...

The death of Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, brother of Sheikh Mohammed, is the loss of another important owner from the sport. He was an owner of longstanding. He won the 1987 Eclipse with Mtoto, horse of the year the following season and recent...

In today's Racing Post, Lee Mottershead has a piece with Norman Gundill, the grand old man of Pontefract who has not missed a meeting at his beloved racecourse in the sixty-years he has served the place. As you might expect from Lee Mottershead, it i...

At Newbury, they needed rain and did not get any. At Ayr the opposite was true. When the government told you the country was in the midst of a drought, they lied. Only the south of the country had brown grass; in the north of England and Scotland sit...

Those of a similar vintage to my own may agree that time seems to zip past us far faster than when we were nimbler and fructuous. Not that I remember being either of those things. I am also pretty sure I skipped those years described by many 'as the ...