‘a giant of a personality’

The HH wins the doghound championship for the first time, while the Beaufort claim a 60th title

Brown Jack not only won six consecutive times in Ascot’s Queen Alexandra Stakes, but was also the model for one of only two finished sculptures by Sir Alfred Munnings. A cast of it made top price at auction–as did a Canaletto at another sale

Will Bryer on coveting a hound’s sense of smell, novel excuses for falling off and having to accept his wife is always right

HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY

From being too nervous to hold his binoculars to calling some of the greatest races, this week Derek “Tommo” Thompson retired after 60 years as a commentator

A working hunter leaps to glory in the supreme and lands the biggest accolade of the show