Eventing profile: after a year in the Marlborough area & a good season, Georgie Strang looks to next year's challenges

Written by Tony Millett.

Georgie Strang & Cooley Earl at Badgerstown stablesIt has been a year of change for eventer Georgie Strang - her first year in the Marlborough area. And it's been a good year for her: "I'm really pleased with our progress - it's been educational for myself and the horses. My younger horses have stepped up and I have some new young horses too. And Cooley Earl and I completed Badminton."

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Newbury racing: Ian Balding remembers Mill Reef - fifty years after the great horse's birth

Written by A Correspondent.

Ian Balding with the Mill Reef statue Ian Balding has been paying tribute to the best horse he ever trained as he recalls the life and career of the great Mill Reef, one of the most popular racehorses of all time, who was born 50 years ago this year.

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My ride in Glorious Goodwood's 2018 Magnolia Cup - the premier charity race for amateur women riders

Written by Anna Rowlinson.

Anna and New Rich going down to the start (Photo copyright Debbie Burt - with thanks)When the phone rang on June 14 asking if I could ride in this year’s Magnolia Cup, my heart leapt. This was a race I had always wanted to ride in.

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Local artist's Drinking Horse sculpture gets its own winner's enclosure at Newbury Racecourse

Written by Tony Millett.

Tom Hiscocks stands beside his Drinking Horse Newbury racecourse marked the opening of its Flat racing season by installing a remarkable sculpture at the heart of the parade rings - Tom Hiscocks' massive yet finely realised depiction of a drinking horse.

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Luke Harvey talks about riding, owning & training point-to-point horses - his love for the sport & its future

Written by Jake Exelby.

Luke Harvey at last month's Barbury International Point-to-PointWhere do I start with Luke Harvey - the man who tweets as @LeglockLuke? Jockey, trainer, TV personality, comedian, bon viveur - all that and he's probably the best-known owner of point-to-pointers in Britain. Luke lives at Kingston Lisle - just over the downs from Baydon.

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She's the official - and ace - photographer for Newbury Racecourse - known generally as 'Smiler'

Written by Tony Millett.

Francesca Altoft - on a pretty chilly day at Newbury RacecourseArriving at a race meeting last Saturday, braving some torrential rain and clouds hovering low on the nearby hills, a young photographer tweeted: "I've been coming here since 2011 and working here since 2014 and I still have to pinch myself every time I arrive...#LuckyGirl."

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The pony who's surviving Equine Grass Sickness - a relatively unknown, but often fatal condition

Written by Nikki Richardson-Owen.

Edward EdwardEquine Grass Sickness (EGS) is something most people who are involved with horses have heard of, yet many - like myself - are probably unaware of what it may involve.

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Marlborough trainer Emma Lavelle's new jumps season gets off the mark at Ffos Las

Written by Tony Millett.

Emma Lavelle Racing's Laura Scrivener with wet but victorious Woolstone One (Photo from @FfosLasRC)This will be Marlborough trainer Emma Lavelle's second full season at the Bonita Racing Stables in Ogbourne Maizey. Last season her horses flourished in the airy stables and on the all-weather and grass gallops.

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