Surrey trainer who regularly sends runners to France awaits news of 31 October impact on British stablesGeorge Baker, a trainer whose stable is a most frequent raider of prizes at French tracks, is waiting to learn how his operations could be affected after 31 October. Baker, who trains at Chiddingfold, Surrey, regularly sends runners to Continental tracks, where he has consistently earned valuable prize money for his owners. Related: Talking Horses: Cieren Fallon turns to Cauthen to get back on winning trail Nottingham 2.00 Stars In The Night (nb) 2.30 Cloud Drift 3.00 Road To Paris 3.30 Strike Acclaim 4.00 Afandem 4.30 Ugo Gregory 5.00 Deinonychus Continue reading...
The famously immovable opening batsman now shows a much more carefree approach to the prospect of no-dealMy God, I wish Geoff Boycott had approached playing cricket like he approaches no-deal Brexit. The longtime cricketer turned longtime commentator was on Good Morning Britain this week, when he was asked about his Brexit strategy, rather in the same way you might get Jeremy Hunt on the show and seek his opinion as to whether he can even bear the poignancy of not being able to watch Jimmy Anderson in World Cup conditions like these.Having immediately attempted to flirt with Susanna Reid with the same gossamer touch you’d expect of a man convicted of a brutal assault on a former partner, Boycott moved...
Elite level athletes and organisations have benefited from unfettered access to Europe; few are fully prepared for the ramifications of whatever happens on 29 MarchIt was during the death throes of the British empire that the penultimate high commissioner of Aden, Richard Turnbull, forecast: “When it finally sinks beneath the waves of history it will leave behind only two monuments: one is the game of association football, the other the expression ‘fuck off’.” How some Brexiters relish lobbing that expletive at the European Union, despite the pernicious risks to the national game and the rest of British sport.Privately, some inside the Olympic and Paralympic system fear Brexit will make it harder to attract the best coaching talent. Others also warn...
Tories, let’s be clear – distracting everyone by bringing down the government this week, of all weeks, is unacceptableThanks to David Davis and Boris Johnson, England are now one of those World Cup sides that can be described sympathetically as “playing on despite the political turmoil back home”. As the old saying goes: dance like no one’s watching, love like you’ve never been hurt and play a World Cup like your shitshow of a government is about to collapse itself and plunge your country further into the mire.And you know what? Depending on how much barely charted territory you can handle – England are in the semi-finals of the actual World Cup, after all – it feels great to be...