Life in Saratoga changes when the yearlings are in town. The horses drive the bats out of the barns that have been their homes for nearly 11 months, and sales of tennis rackets soar, since they are ...

Thursday afternoon produced a perfectly blissful day. But the bliss had little to do with the horse racing.

I was no older than eight years. In the peak of summer, on a decidedly balmy evening, I sneaked out and made to the stables, where I saw, glistening in all her glory, our thoro­u­g­­­h­bred mare, all ...

WHETHER you bet or not, you have to admire the sheer beauty of the top class horses running at Cheltenham this week. We've had a few horsey stories over the years in The Diary including the Glasgow ...

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: At our livery yard, we and the vets are forever on the lookout for illness. I’m grateful that my own horse, Jamie, lived to nearly 30 A woodpecker drums, as if signalling ...