Captain Charles Moore, last week’s subject, certainly repays research.
There is something of the magpie in most people, that impulse to rummage around salerooms in search of items neither wanted nor needed.
FULL marks to Ted Walsh for being so quick to inform television viewers that Patrick Mullins had emulated his grandfather in winning the historic La Touche Memorial Cup over Punchestown’s famed banks.
TO those who regard the annual Punchestown Festival as increasingly on a par with that Cotswolds clash in March it may seem hard to believe that it was only in 1960 that Punchestown bowed to the inevitable by introducing an all-bush fence steeplechase course.
Easter is the time of celebration. So, what better time to ride your first winner than on Easter Monday?
Each Grand National winner brings its own story. Mundane though some may seem, the mere fact of adding their name to such a renowned roll of honour guarantees that aura of romance.
THE recent visit of the Princess Royal to the Irish National Stud, following so soon after her mother’s visit, emphasised her family’s longstanding connection with the Turf.
Synchronised’s smashing Gold Cup success produced that smug satisfaction of actually having nominated him as the likely winner, if to another’s financial benefit rather than one’s own.
WELL, here we go again. Let battle begin; the annual conflict in that Cotswolds crucible – Cheltenham.
ASKED to recall his most memorable Cheltenham Festival experience, this veteran National Hunt owner reflected awhile before pronouncing, with a seraphic smile: “Aye, it will have been Solar Cloud. A quarter of a million was won. And not today or yesterday either!”