After early profligate years in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, Francis Grant traded sporting scenes for portraits and climbed the ladder to become president of the Royal Academy. A forthcoming exhibition at Dickinson does justice to his drawing

A former equine wild child comes good with a breathtaking Champions Stakes success and two rank outsiders spring huge surprises

A cyanotype of a fern leaf by early photographer Anna Atkins soared above its estimate in Surrey and ‘the most striking likeness’ of Horatio Nelson is drawing every eye at the LAPADA Fair

Djelo lights up Wetherby, Willie Mullins stuns in the USA and a hero lands his 10th Grade One

From Friesians to former racehorses, natives to draughts, partnerships of every type showed what dedication and good training can achieve

HIGHLIGHTS 20–26 October