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The turf

These are the ones to watch in the Prix de l’Abbaye and the Derby

The stars of Newmarket’s sunny Cambridgeshire

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

Rightly, the authorities are doing all they can to find and discipline the disgruntled racegoer who threw a beer can at the champion jump jockey Tony McCoy after a recent contest at Worcester. McCoy, of course, as well as being the straightest man riding, is a teetotaller. But I couldn’t help thinking of the response when the then English women’s cricket captain Rachael Heyhoe Flint was asked about riotous crowds in the West Indies.

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