The Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival

What They’re Thinking: Lord Grimthorpe and a landmark ‘I was there’ moment

As both racing manager to Prince Khalid Abdullah’s powerful Juddmonte Farms operation and chairman of the race committee at York Racecourse, Lord ‘Teddy’ Grimthorpe is one of the most influential people in horse racing. The fifth Baron Grimthorpe, he is a former bloodstock agent and has been a member of the British Jockey Club since 2007.

This, of course, is one of his most important weeks of the year with Read more

Why it’s asking a lot for Aidan O’Brien to bounce back this particular week

It’s probably stretching it a point to describe the coming week, as some have done, as ‘make or break’ for Aidan O’Brien as far as 2018 is concerned, but there’s no doubt the next few days have the potential to right a ship that set sail on its 2018 voyage so imperiously (remember Saxon Warrior in the Newmarket 2000 Guineas and Mendelssohn in the UAE Derby?) but is floundering now Read more