A sport mourns one of its most cherished and committed devotees Thursday September 08 2022, 9.45pm, The Times In our racing parish the grief will… Read More »Genuine passion and nearly 1,000 winners – the Queen’s lifelong love affair with racing
Sunday May 29 2022, 1.00pm, The Times Just after 10.30am on Thursday, June 4, 1970, I was in the most coveted place on the racing… Read More »Lester Piggott could achieve things on a thoroughbred racehorse no one else could contemplate
The Times, 18th May 2021 Brough Scott recalls the brave and stylish rider of Brigadier Gerard, who died yesterday Joe Mercer has left the best… Read More »Joe Mercer was the jockey we all tried to model ourselves on
How can you love a game that does this to its most devoted? That is the brutal question but be sure that ‘love’ was in… Read More »Brooke paid the ultimate price, such is the burden of true love
One of racing most heroic supporters was cremated at Bierton, near Aylesbury, yesterday. Ivan Newton Edwards was 66 when he died last month, after 45… Read More »IVAN NEWTON EDWARDS RIP
EULOGY – ALL SAINTS CHURCH, NEWMARKET – 3rd JULY 2019 One of the very best assessments of someone is whether you feel better for having… Read More »Willie Snaith’s funeral address
It’s difficult to say, even harder to accept. But there is a triumph in this tragedy. To find it, I have over the last few… Read More »Tom O’Ryan Eulogy
August 7th 1961 – December 12th 2016 Cleeve Hill was the place to ponder the bad news yesterday morning. For of all the old sweats… Read More »Walter Swinburn obituary
Bill Shankly was wrong. For all its wonders football is not, as the great Liverpool legend so famously said “much, much more important” than life… Read More »PAT EDDERY R.I.P.
The racing saddle was his element. Out there he was a seal in water; the most natural, carefree, match-winning jockey you will ever see. The… Read More »PAT EDDERY R.I.P. – Brough Scott
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