The first past the post in the novice handicap hurdle at Fontwell yesterday was disqualified due to an objection from the clerk of the scales in that the jockey, Freddie Mitchell, weighed-in 5Ibs light. In the stewards' enquiry the fault was placed o...

I do not have a biography of Fred Archer in my small racing library. It is an omission I shall have to put right. Anyway, returning to the pony steeplechase I mentioned a few days ago. Fred Archer's first winner was in a pony steeplechase at Bangor. ...

The Racing Post have finally acknowledged Wayne Lordan's six-timer at Leopardstown on Saturday. And it seems I was right when I suggested it was an achievement worth heralding as Lordan is the first jockey, flat or jumping, in the history of British ...

Usually, given it is such a rare event, about as often as a named comet appearing in the sky, when a jockey rides six-winners at one meeting, it is granted a fanfare, heralded as the achievement it is, with headlines in The Racing Post. Yet Wayne Lor...

If Andrew Balding pulls his title bid out of the fire, a toast should be drunk to Mount Atlas for his admirable effort in winning the Long Distance Cup at Ascot yesterday. From his bemused expression after the race, I think the result even shocked th...

For me, the most interesting race today at Ascot is the Champions Long Distance Cup. As with the Stayers Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, could they have come-up with a more imaginative title for the race? Sems not. Did they ever consider naming it...