When Australian Ben Stack was having trouble reeling in a fish while off the Cape York Peninsula, he just presumed his catch had snagged on a log.

David Owen

EARLIER this week’s boxing’s ‘The Greatest’ Muhammad Ali, celebrated his 70th birthday and 50 years ago yesterday, National Hunt racing’s equivalent, the peerless steeplechaser Arkle, gained his first victory in a modest novice hurdle at Navan.

Hundreds of mourners gathered today to pay tribute to former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, who died suddenly last weekend.