FOR four days in March, over 200,000 racing fans from across the world make the historic pilgrimage to Cheltenham to watch the best horses in National Hunt racing. With 28 races spread over the four days […]
The Gryphon Meets Philip Hobbs
ALTHOUGH I haven’t yet met Balthazar King, one day I hope I will get the opportunity to share a carrot with a horse that epitomises the sport of National Hunt racing. Horses may all look […]
LGBT History Month: Role Models Matter
SPORT has a special way of bringing people together. The Christmas Truce of 1914 is a powerful and moving image – uniting two entirely different (and seemingly irreconcilable) groups together in the most serious and high-pressured […]
Fencers Flatten Manchester
Fencing University of Leeds 264 – 193 Manchester BOTH the women’s and men’s teams saw off Manchester in The Edge on Wednesday, with clear victories across all three sword disciplines with final scores of […]
Finally A Queen of Melbourne
THE Melbourne Cup, the richest race in the Southern Hemisphere, also known as the ‘race that stops the nation’, produced a huge shock on Tuesday morning when 100/1 chance Prince of Penzance stormed home to […]
Varsity Heartache Revisited
LEEDS Beckett won all three matches against the University on Wednesday afternoon at The Gryphon Sports Centre, despite there being talented players on both sides of the court. Following defeat at Varsity, the Gryphons were most […]
Jumps Season Underway but no McCoy
THE jumps season gets underway at its Cheltenham headquarters this weekend but for the first time in over twenty years, Anthony Peter McCoy will not ride at the Gloucester track. Nor will he be champion […]