When he was a boy, Townend remembers racing home from school in March 2004 to see if Best Mate could climb Cheltenham’s hill and become the first since Arkle in 1966 to win the Gold Cup three ...

plus a round up of other racing news Racegoers saw Best Mate contest his final race at Exeter earlier today when he collapsed during the William Hill Haldon Gold Cup Breeders' Cup: Ouija Board is ...

Legendary trainer Henrietta Knight, who helped to guide Best Mate to three successive Cheltenham Gold Cups, expects Galopin Des Champs to follow in his hoof prints with a hat-trick of blue riband ...