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Keeping up with current events is never easy for a monthly magazine given the time lag between them actually happening and the first available magazine thudding onto the shelves – usually somewhere around six weeks unless the timing is especially fortunate and said...

Back in June 1979, the Epsom Derby, ‘the most famous horse-race in the world’ as Horse & Hound termed it, was celebrating its 200th running and to mark the moment, the magazine produced a very special commemorative edition. Leafing through the past pages of the...

One of the great magazine traditions that has rather fallen by the wayside in more modern times is the cartoon page. Some were funny, some missed the mark, and some you would never use in the modern world, but back in the day, they were a nice diversion amongst the...

Some people are never satisfied and Kenneth Branagh, one of the most successful actors and directors of all-time, counts himself amongst that number. As he revealed to FourFourTwo back in September 1999, he would much rather have been playing for Spurs than treading...

We take full colour magazines for granted these days but just over 60 years ago, there was a red letter day for Horse & Hound. And a blue letter, green letter, yellow letter… For March 3 1962 saw the first ever full colour front cover of the magazine to mark their...

There’ll be another record in the book on Sunday afternoon assuming Lewis Hamilton takes his place on the starting grid in Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix – he’ll overtake Jenson Button’s existing mark as the British driver with the longest F1 career. Button’s...

You might have noticed that British golfer Charley Hull broke the internet early in the week when she had the temerity to sign a few on course autographs while taking a drag on a gasper (that’s smoking a cigarette for the younger readers…) It led to Charley being...

In the June 7 1958 issue of Horse & Hound, the magazine proved that its interest in all matters equestrian was not simply limited to the confines of Great Britain. The striking cover photograph featured a herd of Akhal Tekin horses being driven across the Turkmen...

Let’s turn the clock back over a century, to the June 1914 edition of Golf Monthly. Storm clouds might well have been gathering over Europe, with the Great War just weeks away, but the esteemed publication was voicing a question that has been repeated countless times...

Enzo Maresca is a hot coaching property at the moment, and it looks as if he could well be Chelsea’s next manager in the next few days, having guided Leicester City to the Championship title in the season just finished. Maresca learnt his coaching trade under Pep...

Much has been made of Josef Newgarden winning back-to-back Indy 500s following his success at the weekend, but he still has a way to go to join A.J. Foyt, Al Unser, Rick Mears and Hélio Castroneves as a four-time winner. Foyt was the first man to win four, completing...

Congratulations got to Toulouse, winners of the 2023/24 European Rugby Champions Cup following victory over Leinster at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, extending their record haul to six titles. Back in the February 2022 issue of Rugby World, Toulouse’s veteran Samoan...

Colin Montgomerie has announced that he will not be looking to qualify for one last Open appearance, accepting that the sheer distance that today’s players hit the ball makes it impossible for him to compete at the age of 60. Monty has been a regular in the pages of...

There’s nothing like a good moral panic to fill up the column inches and, 60 years ago, the May 1964 edition of ‘Rugby World’ was fulminating about the increasingly physical nature of the game, particularly in the wake of the recent Ireland v Wales meeting. The...

Nothing perks up a magazine like a columnist with plenty to say and no reticence in saying it. In the equestrian world, has there ever been anybody better at that than Harvey Smith? In October 1987, ‘Horse & Hound’ signed up Harvey to pen a regular column in its...

We recently remarked on Four FourTwo’s love of a good list here, and in the September 2004 edition, they were at it again. This time, they were looking at ‘101 Ways To Improve Football’, a pretty exhaustive list that took to task many of the ills that they reckoned...

The 1970 Monaco Grand Prix was one of the many classics that have been run in the tiny principality over the years. After all, what more can you ask than that the race is decided on the final corner of the final lap? As was ever the case in the 1970s, the Monaco...

We’re heading into the most glamorous week of the Formula 1 season as the Grand Prix circus descends on Monaco for the race that still captures the attention of the world, petrolheads or not. Back in the 1960s, Graham Hill was not simply the only man to win the triple...

Any writer or pundit will tell you, ruefully, that making predictions in print is a mug’s game, but sometimes, those predictions do come off. Rugby World had a particularly good month of it in March 2008 when, in the Sidelines column, Mark Coughlan chose to spotlight...

Magazine editors love a good listicle – that’s an article based around a list to the rest of us – and if you’re trying to get a new title off the ground, said lists are a great way of stirring up controversy and getting yourself a nice chunk of publicity. So it was...