1960 The Gold Collar fails to attract the 36 runners required for the first round. It will be staged as a 24 runner event with a reduced first prize of £500 (equivalent to £14,480).
1969 Independent Peterborough replace their drag lure with an outside Sumner.
2013 Barry Draper announces that his power English Derby team, headed by favourite Ballymac Eske, will all run in syndication and take advantage of the rule on guarding.
2013 Richard Yeates is the latest new training arrival at Wimbledon.
1996 Bolton racing manager Peter O’Dowd announces he is to join Romford in July.
1960 Shelbourne Park and Harolds Cross have gone on strike over a dispute with Bord na gCon over the introduction of tote betting. They believe the reduction in revenue will reduce the number of bookies, each of whom pays the track 20 shillings per meeting for standing.
1991 There are 193 entries for the English Derby, each paying £250 and with a winner’s prize of £40,000. Ger McKenna’s Concentration is the 8-1 ante post favourite.
2009 GBGB welfare officer Peter Laurie reports no major issues in the experiment of microchipping 491 Crayford runners.
1991 Future TV Trophy Champion Fortunate Man trials in 29.83 at Shelbourne Sales but is unsold.
1947 A truce is called between Britain’s top owner-trainer Fred Trevellion and Catford. Two years earlier, the Kent based haulier fell out with the track management and withdrew his graded runners from the kennels. Since then, Catford have refused all ‘Trevs’ entries in open races and the Produce Stakes.
1960 Dick Jordan, boss at the Biscayne track in the USA reveals that ‘an unnamed London track’ has been enquiring about the possibility of installing an American style double lure (an arm with one lure on the inside and another in the centre of the track).
1996 Nottingham announce that they have scrapped their 460m trip and will use the 480m course as their standard. There will also be a new distance of 525 metres.
2010 Peterborough announce that a string of their annual competitions will be cancelled due to lack of sponsorship including the Puppy Cesarewitch, Seniors Derby, and Peterborough Marathon.
1960 In addition to their annual Veterans Championship, run over the 500 yard course, Wimbledon are considering introducing similar events over the hurdles and 700 yard courses.
1992 Two armed raiders hold up staff at Monmore but get away with “an insignificant sum”.

2014 May 26. The great Westmead Hawk succumbs to cancer in the leg having just passed his 11th birthday. Soon after his death, we published the following article to explain why he deserves a place among the ten greatest trackers ever to have raced in Britain (below). At the time his contribution to breeding was still being assessed. In hindsight it was massive. Here are just 20 of his offspring: Ballymac Scarlet, Borna Mindy, Cloran Paddy, Droopys Nidge, Droopys Noel, Droopys Start, Droopys Twirl, Droopys Ward, Eden The Kid, Greenwell Hulk, Jazz Apollo, Millwards Teddy, Mind The Net, Rockchase Bullet, Sidaz Jack, Sporting Dame, Take The Crown, Taylors Sky, Tudor Prince, Vulturi, Westmead Diver, Westmead Osprey.

WESTMEAD HAWK and Nick Savva – Dunstable 27.6.05 – STEVE NASH PIC