The Tout’s tips for the 2015 Cheltenham Festival
Winter is over and the Cheltenham Festival starts in the Spring sunshine on Tuesday. This is one of the great spectacles of the year and it is...
Image of a woodpecker in flight with a weasel on its back trends on Twitter
Shared on Twitter by a “birder and wildlife photographer” named Jason Ward, our Picture of the Week shows a woodpecker...
The Steeple Times asks round the world sailor Tracy Edwards: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
“If you are not wet and cold you are not going...
Football expert Pontus Maltborg reports on the beckoning of a new Glaswegian derby
Today, Sunday 1st February, a new derby beckons when Glasgow Celtic faces the club formerly known as Glasgow Rangers.
Rangers fans, the FA and...
A rider whose saddle effectively became an ejector seat
Spotted by reader Rupert James and shared on Twitter by retired jump jockey Niall Hannity, our Picture of the Week shows a brilliantly captured image of...
Footballer Bastian Schweinsteiger shows finality in erasing his on-off girlfriend’s name from his boots
When a relationship ends, some opt to delete the number of their ex from their mobile whilst others might moan about them to...
MyCloudtag is a training companion that will improve your health and fitness levels
Designed using innovative gaming technology and principles, MyClougtag is an “exercise companion” that will advise you on health, weight loss and fitness as...
House of Commons Speaker John Bercow is plainly obsessed with Roger Federer and given how much time he has on his hands, he may as well resign
Yesterday, on Boxing Day, the BBC’s Radio 4...
The Tout’s take on the King George VI at Kempton Park
Do the great chasers know it’s Christmas? Boxing Day at Kempton Park is the perfect finale to part one of the festive season and...
John Goodman models the “Dr Evil” look in as he checks in at the South Florida Reception Center prison
The years haven’t served the polo mogul John Goodman well and now that he’s finally been...
Is it really worth paying £3.3 million to fly over Everest?
“Roughly 700 people” signed up to Virgin Galactic’s space tourism project and though disaster struck on one of its test flights, surprisingly only around...
The Tout’s tips for The Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury
This is the first really big race of the new jumping season and also one of the most glamorous as it attracts both the keen...
Football expert Pontus Maltborg on the prospects for AS Monaco FC
In the summer of 2013, AS Monaco FC’s owner and president, the Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, made a huge outlay on his squad to...
The Tout’s tips for the Parisian spectacle that is the Qatar Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe
They are all there in Paris this weekend, champions one and all: Derby winners, Group One winners, colts and...
England qualify for the 2015 FIP World Championships
From the snatches of an extremely close defeat and one whose umpiring decisions were questioned by even Claire Tomlinson, the chairman of the Beaufort Polo Club, the English...
Complaints that standards of welfare in British horseracing aren’t high enough are without real merit
The horseracing world has been enveloped in debate in the wake of The Daily Mirror printing images of Wigmore Hall...
The Tout’s tips for the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles
The time has come and the excitement is tangible with the arrival of this year’s Ryder Cup. This biannual grudge match between Europe and the...
Frankie Dettori puts his Voysey designed country house up for sale
Champion jockey Frankie Dettori is best known for his “flying dismounts” and for having won seven out of seven races at Ascot in 1996....
The Steeple Times asks professional polo player Peter Webb: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
Honesty.
“Don't get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great...
The Tout’s tips for the York Ebor meeting
During the reconstruction of Ascot, The Royal Meeting was held at York and what a great success it was. This meeting is one of the summer highlights and...
The Tout on Goodwood
The summer of sport continues to throw up high class fare and today is no exception as at 3.05pm there is a mouthwatering clash on the Sussex Downs at Goodwood when...
The Tout’s tips for The Open 2014
It’s that time of year again when the world’s best professional and amateur golfers turn up for the toughest tournament in golf. The crucial word is links play...
The Steeple Times asks author of “Rowing Blazers” Jack Carlson: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
Creativity and persistence.
“Don't get even, get medieval” is, in our humble...
The Rib Room dedicates a cocktail to Luis Suárez
Luis Suárez will go down in history for biting Giorgio Chiellini at the 2014 World Cup and in his honour Knightsbridge’s The Rib Room Bar &...
Alexandra Naylor reports on this year’s strawberries and Pimm’s fuelled Wimbledon Championships
It's Wimbledon again – the oldest and most prestigious tennis championship in the world. The unique combination of a British defending champion and...
England’s most disastrous World Cup performance ever
For the last few days, the nation attempted to get enthusiastic about the chances of the England team in the World Cup. Sadly and predictably, this came to...
John Bercow spotted at the Aegon Championships
The last time we featured John Bercow was in the context of a fracas he got into after allegedly bashing into a Range Rover owned by a “divorced...
The Tout’s predictions for Royal Ascot 2014
I’m savouring a full week in my morning suit this week and with the weather set fair, the going is looking good. All we have to do now...
The Tout’s predictions for the Oaks, the Derby and the Belmont Stakes
We have two great days of proper grown up horseracing to come at Epsom and as ever the twists, turns and undulations will...
The Tout’s tips for The Masters 2014
The Tout believes that picking the winner of The Masters is even harder than finding the winner The Grand National or managing to get a bed in a...
2012 Boat Race protestor Trenton Oldfield tweets ‘The Steeple Times’
Trenton Oldfield will only ever be remembered for one thing: wrecking the 2012 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. Ahead of today’s race, this “activist” tweeted us to...
Tagged race goer spotted at Aintree
Spotted by Jules Hearn and shared on Facebook, our Picture of the Week shows a race goer at Aintree sporting a most unusual accessory.
Whilst most ladies attending this annual...
