“THE LAD’ DISHES OUT PUNISHMENT
29 December 2002 A veteran streetfighter and a rising star put up top-class performances to fill the Leopardstown crowd with cheer Could this be the hardest… Read More »“THE LAD’ DISHES OUT PUNISHMENT
29 December 2002 A veteran streetfighter and a rising star put up top-class performances to fill the Leopardstown crowd with cheer Could this be the hardest… Read More »“THE LAD’ DISHES OUT PUNISHMENT
22 December 2002 Superstars versus scandal and disgrace; that was been racing in 2002. Tony McCoy, Rock of Gibraltar and Sir Alex Ferguson spawned the… Read More »RECORD BREAKER MCCOY WAS SIMPLY THE BEST
22 December 2002 For most of us Wimbledon still defines it and this year it had everything. Tim Henman versus Lleyton Hewitt, mortality apparently coming… Read More »LOOKING BACK AT WIMBLEDON
22 December 2002 Brough Scott struggles to see Nicky Henderson’s latest big-race winner at Ascot Racing moves in mysterious ways but rarely as mysteriously as… Read More »CHAUVINIST BURSTS THROUGH THE MIST
22 December 2002 The bright lights of Olympia mask the parlous state of a sport in which Britain once ruled the world Christmas at Olympia: huge… Read More »SHOWJUMPING HEADING FOR A FALL
15 December 2002 Fitzgerald’s urgings conjure an epic last-fence jump to seal victory in Cheltenham’s big race When belief becomes conviction there is no limit to what… Read More »FONDMORT’S LEAP OF FAITH
8 December 2002 Brough Scott sees Ruby Walsh ride a whirlwind finish to win by 14 lengths Phantoms can be hard to beat, especially if… Read More »CENKOS FIGHTS OFF PHANTOM
8 December 2002 With an imposing mix of strength and balance, the Irishman is going places Nature or nurture? With a champion that is usually the… Read More »QUIET ACHIEVER WALSH HAS THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
1 December 2002 Irish outsider gives his rivals a jumping lesson in the Hennessy Only an Irishman could put it so pithily. “He’s a good jumper,”… Read More »ROYAL REVELATION
24 November 2002 The England pace bowler goes under the knife this week as he begins the long haul back to fitness You can forgive… Read More »JONES DREAMS OF A FAST RETURN