Paul Haigh

The British racing press room has lost one of its legends with the passing of former HWPA Racing Journalist of the Year Paul Haigh, who has died aged 76. In truth, Haigh, who received his crowning accolade at the Derby Awards ceremony in 1993, was never much seen in the press rooms of British racecourses even at the best of times because he was a feature-writer rather than a reporter.  And when he chose to make race-meetings the subject of his features, he would be as likely to watch the...