Dawn Goodfellow News Today

The ARC Middleham Open Day once again proved a hit with visitors as nearly 3,000 people flocked to Middleham on Good Friday.

The racing industry is calling on horse lovers across the north to support the annual open day at Middleham when leading stables open their doors…

A CHALLENGE to scale Yorkshire’s Three Peaks has been launched by a horseracing welfare charity.

During 2021 Mental Health Awareness Week (10-16 May) plans for a new vital resource to help riders get more support have been revealed. Mental health charity Riders Minds, which celebrates its first birthday this week, will launch a new text and web chat service in the near future. The charity was founded by the late event rider Matthew Wright and his wife, Victoria, with support from a number of companies, and with the British Grooms Association and Equestrian Employers Association acting as c...

Horse & Hound is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. A young racing fan raising money for charity aims to complete her fundraising challenge next weekend with a little help from some well-known trainers. Eight-year-old Freja Thackray from North Yorkshire is raising money for Racing Welfare by running 20 lots of 2,021 metres in 2021. Freja’s mum Mary, a racehorse owner, told H&H her daughter ha...

Top showjumpers William Funnell and Joe Stockdale have signed major sponsorship deals with Equine America that involve renaming a number of their leading horses. Four of William’s horses will now carry the Equine America prefix under the new sponsorship agreement: Billy Diamo, Billy Take That, Billy McCain and Billy Marmite. “It goes right back to the days of Cortaflex Mondriaan so it’s been quite a long association with the company,” he said, adding it’s an “old association, but a ...

Obituary James Dun Goodfellow - 5 February 1947 – 25 December 2020 James Goodfellow was born in Kelso Scotland in 1947. His parents owned Ferneyhill Farm which overlooked Kelso Race course in the Scottish Boarders. During his formative years he enjoyed country pursuits culminating in being selected as part of the Scottish Clay shooting team (skeet). On one occasion in an International competition at York he shot a perfect score ,100 pts , he always maintained that the stress he felt having h...