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Polo is, of course, a sport that falls under the purview of Horse & Hound magazine and it has afforded it extensive coverage over the years. Back in January 1994, its front cover was given over to the coming retirement from league polo of HRH Prince Charles, the...

English rugby lost one of its greatest figures with the sad passing of Jack Rowell at the beginning of July. His playing career blighted by injury, it was as a coach that he excelled, winning a string of league and cup titles with Bath between 1985 and 1994, at which...

As far as the Open Championship is concerned, one name reigns supreme, certainly across the last 100 years, and yet it’s a name that gets relatively little coverage these days. If you asked for the name of the only man to win five Open Championships then, beyond the...

Even the very best of them get it wrong occasionally, as this Autosport front cover illustrates only too well. Competing in the first round of the 1989 British Rally Championship, Colin McRae ended up driving his Ford RS Cosworth on two wheels for a moment. It got...

It’s that time of the year when the home international teams are heading off on tour, though with the extended nature of the calendar these days, those tours are starting later and later. Thirty years ago, the July issue of Rugby World already had plenty of tour news...

Ferrari took their second straight '24 Hours of Le Mans' race win last weekend, their current success ending a sequence of five wins for Toyota. Yet the Japanese manufacturers have rarely topped the podium in Le Mans and had to wait until 1991 for their first triumph....

The great Gary Player, nine-times a Major winner, was as well known for his sartorial elegance in his era as Tiger Woods was for his red sweater on the final day of tournaments in his. But the South African star, still going strong today at 88, was always known as the...

Can it really be 40 years since Seve Ballesteros won his second Open Championship, in the suitably regal setting of St Andrews? It is, yet those images of that fist pump on the final green when victory was sealed with a birdie remains as fresh in the mind today as it...

For those of you enjoying, or otherwise, Chris Sutton’s punditry on the Euros at present, a reminder that back in 2010, he was putting his money where his mouth was as Lincoln City manager. And to be fair, he lasted 366 days, which is a bit longer than Brian Clough at...

One of Australian rugby’s all-time greats, Michael Hooper, retired from international duty this week after being omitted from the Olympics sevens team that’s going to Paris in July. Hooper made his Test debut in 2012, was the youngest ever captain of the Wallabies at...

If you are a keen caravaner then there are few things more important than the directions that are going to get you from A to B. In these days of GPS, googlemaps and the like, we have become slaves to technology, but in an earlier era, an accurate map was a Godsend....

The 2024 Olympics are on the horizon and Team GB’s equestrians are heading for the Games in good heart, looking set to come home with a handful of medals once more. It wasn’t always thus, for it was only at the 2012 London Olympics that Great Britain became a dominant...

Hard lines to Bath, beaten narrowly by Northampton Saints in the Premiership final last weekend. The June 1985 issue of Rugby World will offer some consolation to their fans, recalling their John Player Special Cup win that year as they retained their title, a...

The Caravan Club is a venerable institution and in early 1963, it was decided that it should have its own magazine for members – this is its first issue, released for January 1963. Among various features on how to store your caravan over winter and the testing of...

It’s British Grand Prix time once again this week, but 60 years ago, the race doubled up as the European Grand Prix too. Reigning world champion Jim Clark won the race at Brands Hatch and, in the golden age of advertising, plenty of companies who supplied the winning...

The letters page of the November 1 1947 edition of Horse & Hound brought attention to what one reader, WJ Middleditch of Swansea, referred to as the rapid decline in the art of falling off horses. He or she opined, “The fear of being thrown is the cause of the...

The March 2008 issue of The Caravan Club Magazine brought with it a reminder that the Club doesn’t merely exist to pass on tips and suggestions of how its members can get the best out of their caravan holidays. The magazine gave full details on a new £5million...

It’s November 2003, and FourFourTwo are featuring two men by the name of Ronaldo on the front cover. One of them is, well, Ronaldo, the Brazilian striker who, a year earlier, helped deliver the World Cup for his country, winning the Golden Boot at the 2002 World Cup....

While certain golf clubs have taken a great deal of persuading to adopt genuine equality within their environs, Golf Monthly was very quick to recognise the ability of female golfers within its pages. The January 1920 issue, among the earliest to feature an original...

Ferrari v Aston Martin is still going on in Formula 1 to this day, but the battle has also raged elsewhere over the years, as Autosport has chronicled. Autosport hasn’t merely covered the top end of motor racing during its 74 years of existence to date. It has...