Tom Peacock

3 weeks ago | racingpost.com | Tom Peacock

Miriam Crehan’s description of Le Grand Peinture’s belated victory at Navan being a "family affair" hardly does it justice. Two parents and their three children have all played their parts in the story, each of them harbouring a suspicion their homebred gelding could amount to much more than the hopeless case he had largely presented in his form figures so far.

4 weeks ago | racingpost.com | Tom Peacock

Angels Dawn, a famous first Cheltenham Festival winner for Sam Curling two years ago, is to retire to owner-breeder Alfred Sweetnam’s Tipperary farm to begin a stud career. The Yeats mare thrived in the mud to beat Grand National fancy Stumptown by a neck in the 2023 Kim Muir, before finishing sixth in the Irish National.

1 month ago | racingpost.com | Tom Peacock

Culture vultures including Sir Peter O’Sullevan described Elie Lambert as the LS Lowry of the racing world and an upcoming exhibition of the Belgian artist’s work has particular poignancy as it opens just a few months after his death.

1 month ago | racingpost.com | Tom Peacock

Ian Bare, the owner-breeder who produced a long string of useful National Hunt horses with the Kentford prefix, was described as a "true gentleman" following his death last week at the age of 94. Bare and his late wife Heather were enthusiastic owner-breeders for over 50 years, producing the horses for much of that time from their Kentford Stud near Wellow in Hampshire. They were known for supporting many local trainers including Seamus Mullins, the late Toby Balding, Paul Webber and Emma Lavelle.

1 month ago | racingpost.com | Tom Peacock

Chris Barber’s early experiences with Mr Vango are very much in line with an individual who has been tremendously easy to underestimate. The strapping chaser, who stands at over 18 hands, has become one of the stories of the season for Sara Bradstock and her small Oxfordshire yard and was as gallant a winner of last weekend’s JenningsBet Midlands Grand National as they come.