17-10-2018 A Correspondent
Worthington’s Armed Forces Raceday returns on Saturday 27 October 2018 at Newbury Racecourse. In keeping with the 100-year anniversary of the end of the first World War and 100 years of the RAF, the day will be filled with military activity and entertainment for everyone to enjoy.
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October the first...the start of the Jumps season is well in sight...and preparations have been underway for several months at the Marlborough area's training yards.
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It 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...
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The 2018 season at Salisbury Racecourse, which runs solely on the Flat, comes to a close on October 3 with the £20,000 Weatherbys Handicap Stakes and a selection of races for two-year olds.
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Why do we go to the races? For the sport? To have a flutter - and keep the bookies in profit? To be with chums? To watch extraordinary horses?
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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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Great Britain's eventers won the team gold medal at the eighth World Equestrian Games at Tryon, North Carolina - and Ros Canter on Allstar B took the individual gold.
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Salisbury Racecourse's 'Twilight' meeting today (Tuesday, September 11) has been abandoned. The decision was made on safety ground.
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More than 200 visitors and owners went to Neil King's Ridgeway Racing yard near Barbury Castle for his annual open day - looking ahead to the coming jumps season, his fifth at Upper Herdswick farm.
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"What a super year" said Tim Price after his victory in the land Rover Burghley Horse Trials on Ringwood Skyboy.
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Cole Harden gets a taste of Greatwood's grassThis week, Greatwood Charity was delighted to welcome Cheltenham Festival winner Cole Harden to its Clench Common paddocks, after the 9-year-old gelding was retired from racing due to an injury.
Chelsea Pearce with (left) Albert VI and (right) Kilnaboy BuffetWith her A Levels behind her, eventer Chelsea Pearce, who is based near Marlborough, is making the most of her gap year.
Georgie Strang & Cooley Earl at Badminton (May 2018) Georgie Strang has joined the Marlborough area’s unique stable of top eventers - joining Sir Mark Todd’s yard at Badgerstown on the edge of the Marlborough Downs.
Nereo took Andrew Nicholson to his first Badminton victory in 2017. Now, on the last day if Badminton 2018, the eighteen year-old Lockeridge based eventing horse has been retired from top-level competitions.
Blyth Tait in cross country action (Photo credit www.trevor-meeks-photography.co.uk)Blyth Tait, one the world’s most respected event riders, will design the novice cross-country course at this year’s St James’s Place Barbury Horse Trials (5-8 July).
An unusual sight on the parade ring's big screenAl Shaqab Lockinge Day (May 19) is Newbury Racecourse's most important day of the Flat season - this year it saw the royal wedding, sunshine, extra security, no violent scenes...and some remarkable racing.
Limato on the gallops with Harry Bentley aboard (Photo: Francesca Altoft for Newbury Racecourse) The skylarks were so high you could not spot them against the blue sky. Limato was exercising on trainer Henry Candy's gallops north of Lambourn - the weather was perfect, the turf was amazing and Limato looked a picture.
(Pic from BBC Sport coverage)New Zealand eventer Jonelle Price has won the prestigious four star 2018 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials - 4.9 penalty points ahead of Britain's Oliver Townend. Jonelle is the first female winner of Badminton for eleven years.
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.
