The 600km Camel-back Desert Trek Celebrating Bedouin Culture
For many of us in the UK preserving culture means historic buildings and monuments, but for the Emiratis, whose roots are nomadic, it takes something a bit more intrepid
Marcus Armytage
I was already a journalist when I won the 1990 Grand National as an amateur jockey in a record time on Mr Frisk and I have been the Daily Telegraph's racing correspondent for the last 29 years.
Charlotte Dujardin's Downfall Should be a Warning to us all
With the Olympic dressage rider's career in tatters, I wonder if there's more to the story than we are being told
How to Survive Royal Ascot
As the great and the good of the racing world decend upon Ascot for the Royal Meeting, here's a Scribehound guide to surviving the week more or less unscathed
The Most Dangerous Race I Ever Rode In
Be careful what you wish for is a dictum which applies across all walks of life including politics and sport and it came home to roost with me on a British jump jockeys’ trip to Russia in 1992
8 Characters to Look Out For at the Point-to-Point
For many the Easter point-to-point meet is a calendar fixture, as much about the socials as it is about the racing. Keep an eye out for these archetypes in the queue for the bookies, the carpark or the beer tent.
The Horses You'll Encounter at Every Hunt Meet
A hunt meet is a melting pot of people from all walks of life. There is no better demonstration of this than the wide variety of horses you'll find at meets up and down the land
How do you like your venison? Poached, roasted or both?
Run ins with the police was nothing new for Cirencester students 40 years ago but hiding a 'body' from them livened up an otherwise ordinary May day morning
Don't get me started on the birds and the bees.
I have tried many countryside pastimes but not all with equal success. Here I recount my lop at making honey and catching game with a Harris Hawk
Great - but by association only.
Inspired by a visit to the grave of Capt Ronnie Wallace, the greatest amateur huntsman of the 20th century, I look back on my time in charge of hunts; amateur in the worst sense of the word.
Foinavon and the Fear of Heights: A Misadventure in the Highlands
Walking a Scottish mountain - it didn't take long to realise that steep ridge after steep ridge is for mountain goats, red deer and ptarmigan, not some southern softee.