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
PATRICK JAMES JOHN EDDERY 18.04.1952 – 10.11.2015 All of you here can share an abiding image I have of Pat. He is cantering to the… Read More »PATRICK JAMES JOHN EDDERY
COUNTRY FUNERAL Brough Scott joins the throng at the moving service for Michael and Mary Scudamore in Herefordshire on Tuesday JULY 2014 THEY carried the… Read More »A moving service for Michael and Mary Scudamore
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