Marcus Armytage

4 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Marcus Armytage

Hollie Doyle became the most successful female jockey in British racing history when Brindavan gave her a 1,023rd winner at Ascot on Saturday. The 28-year-old, who has surpassed Hayley Turner's total, reached 1,000 domestic winners in March and has regularly ridden more than 100 winners a season since 2019. Her best season was 2021, when she won 172 races. "It's a nice milestone to reach and I'm really grateful to all the female riders who came before me," she said.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Marcus Armytage

He is also as much about people as he is horses. Every single one of his lads wished me "Good morning" which, I think, says as much about the trainer as his title and he has brought his apprentice, Jack Doughty, with him this winter to much wider attention. Doughty, he predicts, will go far but not at the wheel of a car any time soon as he recently failed the theory part of his test. "We've been giving him a lot of stick for it," says Carroll laughing.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Marcus Armytage

As the 25-1 Golden Ace arrived in the winner's enclosure, a large, vociferous West Country section of the crowd started chanting Scott's name long and loudly. "It's nice having your own barmy army," he points out. "It's a good job they were there. Everyone was so shocked. But to be fair, once they'd computed it, the crowd cheered her like a champion when she was paraded round the paddock.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Marcus Armytage

Willie Mullins's first salvo of runners on the last day of the season extinguished Dan Skelton's hopes of a first title, as the imperious Irishman retained his status as No 1. One day Skelton might reflect that taking the trainers' championship down to the wire was the Herculean effort of his career. In most normal years against normal opposition he had done more than enough, with over £3 million in prize-money.

2 weeks ago | ca.sports.yahoo.com | Marcus Armytage

Willie Mullins’s first salvo of runners on the last day of the season extinguished Dan Skelton’s hopes of a first title, as the imperious Irishman retained his status as No 1. One day Skelton might reflect that taking the trainers’ championship down to the wire was the Herculean effort of his career. In most normal years against normal opposition he had done more than enough, with over £3 million in prize-money.