Yorkshire

Over 100 people from across the UK racing industry will participate in the charity hike the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge on Saturday, July 8, Racing Welfare announced on Thursday. Participants will hike 25 miles and climb over 1500 metres as they traverse Ingleborough, Pen-y-ghent and Whernside in Yorkshire in just 12 hours. "As a charity that receives no government funding, we are relying on our supporters and fundraisers more than ever," said Racing Welfare Chief Executive Dawn Goodfellow. To have 100 people taking on this challenge and showing that unified...

It never bodes well when a trainer starts an interview with the words, "I don't really like doing interviews." This, from Richard Fahey, was far less intimidating, however, than when TDN went to interview David Elsworth some years ago to be greeted by him marching across the yard and stating, "I'm in a murderous mood." I Having mercifully escaped from Egerton House Stables unscathed to live to annoy many more trainers, our recent mission to Malton was a comparative cakewalk.  For a start, it would be impossible for either interviewer...

The Racing Welfare Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge, an all-new mass participation fundraising event for 2023, was announced by the charity on Friday. Set for Saturday, July 8, the Large Outdoors-led contest is a 12-hour challenge that is 25 miles long and includes over 1,500 metres of ascent of Yorkshire peaks Ingleborough, Pen-y-ghent, and Whernside. Starting and finishing in Horton-in-Ribblesdale, the challenge is  £35 per person with sponsorships going for a minimum of £300. For more information on how to register, please visit the Racing Welfare website. "As this challenge takes...

In an already sad month, the deaths have been announced of two highly respected and popular former Yorkshire-based trainers, Tim Etherington and Tommy 'Squeak' Fairhurst.   Tim Etherington took over the helm at Wold House Stables in Malton in 1994 on the retirement of his father Jimmy, one of the leading jockeys in the north in the 1950s and '60s who had bought the property subsequent to the retirement of Pat 'Rufus' Beasley. Jimmy Etherington, who has outlived his son, enjoyed significant success there with the likes of the 1978...

Market forces, bull markets, bear markets, online markets, and now the Wuhan wet market: it's all a bit of a shambles really. The original Shambles were just that, wet markets in numerous English market towns where butchers gathered to slaughter and sell their produce. These were narrow streets with a gutter down the middle for the blood and guts. The most famous Shambles is in York, where even in the 19th century 25 butchers still plied their trade side by side. When Old Mother Hubbard went out to get the...