A media colleague used to say to me that the best story to find in the build-up to the Cheltenham Festival would be one about a horse ridden out by a nun on a beach in Ireland. This was no sort of stereotyping, but a yearning to have a few…

The answer to the biggest question arising from the weekend’s results is Newbury, Ludlow and Huntingdon. Because the thing about Venetia Williams, who enjoyed her first winners of the year – the first in fact for eight and a half frustrating weeks and seventy runners – when first Jeu d’Opale…

Bloody hell, some of horse racing’s top brass drive you mad. At all four fixtures that I attended over the Christmas/New Year holiday – Chepstow, Newbury, Warwick and Windsor – there were springs in steps and smiles on faces to rival the terrific atmospheres and generally favourable weather as news…