Lee Mottershead
Senior Writer at Racing Post
Racing Post senior writer. Extremely fond of food and theatre. Also extremely fond of racing.
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6 days ago |
racingpost.com | Lee Mottershead
Ever since it was announced in November that Charles Allen had been signed up to become chair of the BHA, those who know him and know of him have been asking why on earth does he want the job? In a most regrettable development, it appears Lord Allen may now be asking himself the same question. Even by British racing's standards, the latest mess is particularly unfortunate.
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1 week ago |
racingpost.com | Lee Mottershead
As the Jockey Club's group chief executive, Jim Mullen will be at Aintree on April 11 next year to attend a world-renowned event he has never yet witnessed in person. Ironically, that would have changed earlier this year had it not been for Mullen being handed responsibility for the Grand National and much else besides.
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1 week ago |
racingpost.com | Lee Mottershead
The Derby was in the doldrums. Long since gone was the time when crowds in their hundreds of thousands flocked to Epsom on the first Wednesday of June. The world's greatest Flat race no longer felt like an event of huge national significance. It was decided something had to be done. The agreed solution was radical, controversial and one that three decades later is still guaranteed to spark a debate. Not since the coronation year of 1953 had the Derby been run on a Saturday.
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1 week ago |
racingpost.com | Lee Mottershead
Jeremy Noseda, who was part of the team behind 1995 Derby winner Lammtarra, has revealed that the key to the horse’s dramatic Epsom victory was Walter Swinburn's decision to deliberately ignore the instructions of Sheikh Mohammed. Noseda was talking to the Racing Post for a major feature in Sunday’s newspaper looking back 30 years to the radical and controversial decision by Epsom’s new owners, the Jockey Club, to move the Derby from the traditional first Wednesday in June to Saturday.
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1 week ago |
racingpost.com | Lee Mottershead
Through 2025, the Racing Post will be telling the history of racing through the stories of the 20 most significant races ever run. Lee Mottershead continues the series by recounting the tale of the first ever running of the Grand NationalPart one:The day racing changed forever: how the 1780 Derby sparked a 250-year turf revolutionBy the time the clock struck two, a crowd of maybe 30,000 people had assembled at what was, and still is, Aintree racecourse.
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