Tag: Features
RACING PRIZEMONEY SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED
Quote: ‘In normal circumstances, racecourses provide approximately half of prize-money, but with betting shops, which drive media rights income, closed and no crowds, their contributions will be significantly impacted’ – The Resumption of Racing group By Andrew Atkinson Owners and trainers in Britain will be given an update in May – regards to where racing […]
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EBDON OVERWHELMED
Peter Ebdon, former world snooker champion, racehorse breeder and owner has announced his retirement, due to spinal issues. ANDREW ATKINSON reports on Ebdon’s career, a racehorse owner, to pedigree consultant, at Batsford Stud in Gloucestershire. PETER Ebdon, who I did an exclusive interview with, when revealing he fell asleep while driving his car on a […]
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Ice cool Phil Stargazing for season ahead
By Andrew Atkinson Trainer Philip Kirby has an exciting small team of runners when racing resumes, and a second group being prepared for later in the summer/early Autumn. “We have a strong hand in the staying division, not including our Autumn/early season NH horses,” said Philip, based at Green Oaks Farm stables, Richmond, North Yorkshire. […]
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Calls to come out of lockdown are too soon – to do safely
Quote: ‘The reason scientists didn’t want us to move earlier is because once you go into lockdown, the resilience and people’s willingness to stay in lockdown and the economic consequences, mean there is only a certain amount of time that you can hold that in place’. In a special report ANDREW ATKINSON looks at the […]
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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 Journalist and author friend Andrew Atkinson is writing and publishing his and Higgins’ previously unpublished memoirs, in a tribute to the legendary ‘Hurricane’.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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