#Sun Princess

The summer of 1966 was a memorable one, as Aunt Edith became the first filly to win the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot in what was the 16th renewal. Trained by Noel Murless and ridden by Lester Piggott, Aunt Edith was bouncing back from an odds-on defeat in the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot, where she finished a 15-length…

Ivor Herbert, a Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning trainer and one of racing's most distinguished writers, has died at the age of 96. A remarkably versatile man, he trained Linwell to win the Gold Cup in 1957 and then wrote a succession of definitive books about the sport's most famous figures including Arkle, Red Rum and Vincent O'Brien. He collaborated…

Lester Piggott was too busy to visit the cinema in his youth. The teenager whose life was consumed by racing missed out on the golden era of Hollywood westerns, in which fabled gunslingers roamed across new frontiers. Those 1950s productions were a metaphor of Piggott himself. He was the cold-eyed marksman who never blinked, and who took no…

The door to the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe may not have swung wide-open for Baaeed - but it's at least now ajar with the ParisLongchamp showpiece under consideration for the latest Shadwell superstar. Hamdan Al Maktoum never won the great race during his remarkable ownership career, Sakhee having switched to Godolphin before his triumph in…