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 ...

In today's Racing Post, Chris Cook dedicates his column to the 'plight' of female jockeys and why 'we' should not get carried away with Saffie Osborne winning the St. Leger last Saturday. He is right to mark the card for everyone. As much as it was a...

No one, not even a born cynic and conspiracy theorist follower as I am prone to be, can deny that the weather in Britain and Ireland has not changed, perhaps for the better, over the past decade. Winters are less wintery, which can only be a good thi...

It always brings me good cheer when the lead story on the front page of The Racing Post at this time of the year revolves around National Hunt. This morning it is Marine Nationale and Barry Connell's plans for him this season. It seems we will have t...