Based at Blowing Stone Stables in Kingston Lisle, near Wantage, Oxfordshire, Georgina ‘Georgie’ Nicholls, née Brown, is the ex-wife of 13-time champion National Hunt trainer Paul Nicholls. On July 21, 2023, she made headlines when her two-year-old filly Betties Bay, who had previously finished unplaced in the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot, … Read more
Holly Doyle, 26, rode her first winner, as a amateur, on May 5, 2013 and, in the intervening decade or so, has made a habit of reaching landmarks, breaking records and making headlines. In 2019 – the year in which she succeeded another youngster, Edward Greatrex, as stable jockey to Archie Watson – Doyle rode … Read more
Archie Maximilian Bannatyne Watson served a worldwide apprentice, culminating in a four-year spell as assistant trainer to William Haggas, at Somerville Lodge in Newmarket, before completing the purchase of Saxon Gate in Upper Lambourn – historically the home of the legendary Fulke Walwyn – in July, 2016. He embarked on a training career in his … Read more
The ‘look of eagles’ is a complimentary, albeit rather hackneyed, American expression used to describe the gaze of some, but very few, exceptional racehorses. As American novelist John Taintor Foote wrote in his short story ‘The Look of Eagles’, published in 1916, ‘The phrase, the look of eagles, has come to represent the proud, lofty … Read more
