www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/back-to-the-... Enlightening piece from @emmacollingsberry.bsky.social on William Haggas. Makes a pleasant change to hear a top trainer expressing optimism about the sport.

www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/class-writte... @emmacollingsberry.bsky.social and Guy Harwood do full justice here to a great racehorse.

www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/seven-days-o... Seven Days by @emmacollingsberry.bsky.social in TDN. Interesting that Yutaka Take is still riding big-race winners at 57 - had his birthday just last week. It’s not known whether Peter Chapple-Hyam sent a card but it’s odds-against, I’d have thought.

www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/i-always-say... Terrific article by @emmacollingsberry.bsky.social Quite a long read but certainly worth the effort. Mark Johnston comes out of it very well and provides a lot of detail I’d never heard before including the early involvement of John Hills.

www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/a-moment-tha... @emmacollingsberry.bsky.social on Sam Sangster. Comments re Robert Sangster’s silks chime with me. In the late-70s my mum, when making her ITV7 selections, used to ask me to pick out for her those running in green and blue as “they win all the races”.