Truth is as strange as Dick Francis’s fiction. Newbury’s meeting on Saturday when, in a bizarre accident, two horses were electrocuted in the parade ring was a tragic and hideous experience. Those who heard the dying squeals of Andy Turnell’s Marching Song will never forget them. It was all the sadder because it should have been a day for us all to celebrate Nicky Henderson’s achievement the day before of clocking up 2,000 winners as a trainer, an achievement he might well have underlined by winning the Totesport Hurdle, the richest handicap hurdle in Europe, with one of his three...
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