THE SMALL THINGS

I am, for no known reason, re-reading Middlemarch. I picked it up because I was thinking about my father and the racing world I grew up in. ...

In complete contrast to yesterday, I wake up determined and galvanised. I have huge amounts of work to do, and I’m running at full stretch. ...

In the horse world, just as in the human one, there is prejudice against the female of the species. Mares are widely supposed to be hormonal...

‘Look, look,’ I cry to the Horse Talker, like an eager six-year-old child. ‘Watch this.’ She kindly watches. I break into a run. Red trots g...