THE Chester meeting just gone did little to shake up the market for the Epsom Classics and so the search train rolls on to Lingfield today where the Derby and Oaks trials headline a decent looking card. In recent years, these are two trials that have struggled to unearth an Epsom champion with High Rise in 1998 and Ramruma in 1999 the last colt and filly to win here before going on to Epsom glory in the Derby and Oaks respectively.

DNA testing has shot down theories that an arrow held by an Australian museum was made out of a bone from British explorer Captain James Cook’s leg, finding that the remains probably are not even human.

A flintlock pistol reputed to have belonged to the explorer Captain James Cook is going under the hammer today.