On Horseback

Simon Barnes is the leading sports writer on horses in Britain. This is a selection of his work.


Whether writing in The Times about the extraordinary racing operation of Sheikh Mohammed, or the achievements of the Riding for the Disabled movement, in the Spectator about the social nuances of the hunting debate, in Horse and Hound about riding his own two horses or about the appearance of that magazine in Hugh Grant’s cover story in Notting Hill, Simon Barnes is a charming, incisive, iconoclastic and totally dedicated writer, loved by horse-people all over the country. This collection reports some of his finest work.