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...

If you want to find champion jockeys all in the same place and on the same day, the best place to look would be George Boughey's Saffron Place Stables on the Hamilton Road in Newmarket. Not only is the new champion flat jockey Billy Loughnane the ret...

Once more I quote from 'Men and HorsesI Have Known', a book, you might be pleased to know, I finished reading yesterday morning.  'Racing for a short time was stopped by the War. The reason for this was simple; a certain amount of sentimentalist...