If I knew you were coming I’d have baked a Cake
If I knew you were coming I’d have baked a Cake – the Alex Higgins story FORMER apprentice jockey Alex Higgins, two-times world snooker champion, died a decade ago on July 24, 2010. Journalist and author friend Andrew Atkinson is writing and publishing his and Higgins’ previously unpublished memoirs, in a tribute to the legendary ‘Hurricane’. […]
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Racing’s Cornelius Lysaght retires
By Andrew Atkinson Racing’s flag bearer correspondent Cornelius Lysaght is retiring this week after almost 30 years in the ‘saddle’. “Since I started in August 1990, the Cheltenham Festival and Royal Ascot have been staged 29 times each. 28 Grand Nationals and 146 Classic races – just in Britain,” said BBC racing correspondent Lysaght. The […]
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Philip’s a ‘Good Egg’!
By Andrew Atkinson Trainer Philip Kirby was a ‘cut’ above the rest – when he took up the ‘Raw Egg Challenge’ – at Green Oaks Farm stables in Richmond, North Yorkshire. “I don’t really like cooked eggs! – so I don’t know how I’ll go on – but I’ll try my best,” said Philip. Sporting […]
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Racing awaits May 7 government announcement
By Andrew Atkinson The racing world is holding its breath – awaiting to see what will arise from the UK Government legislation on the coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown – as over 19,500 deaths were reached on April 24. The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) announced race meetings were to be cancelled on March 18, as the pandemic […]
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Racing awaits May 7 government announcement
By Andrew Atkinson The racing world is holding its breath – awaiting to see what will arise from the UK Government legislation on the coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown – as over 19,500 deaths were reached on April 24. The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) announced race meetings were to be cancelled on March 18, as the pandemic […]
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