RACING POST MONDAY AUGUST 22nd 2011

 RACING POST WEEK MONDAY  AUGUST 22 THROUGH TO SUNDAY AUGUST 28^th2011

THE RACING POST MONDAY AUGUST 22^nd 2011

RODNEY MASTERS

DOREEN RACKHAM FAREWELL TO THE ANGEL OF LAMBOURN

Tributes flow following the death of one of Lambourn’s  best-loved personalities

BROUGH SCOTT recalls a saintly figure who was close to so many hearts.

“Village post mistress who delivered smiles and inspiration for everyone. She was much, much more than a good deed in a naughty world. Doreen Rackham was as near a saint as our little universe is likely to provide. In the last few weeks scores of us have filed into her bedroom at Oaksey House in search of one last glimpse of that very special smile. To think of Doreen is to sense that smile and all the goodness  that it carried in its wake. Politicians can talk of the big society. In Lambourn Doreen Rackham lived it.

THE RP WEEKLY MONDAY JURY ANALYSIS

MONGAN JOINS THE JURY Fresh from his sensational Group 1 triumph partnering TWICE OVER at York, IAN MONGAN joins the theory experts to answer the key questions arising from the past week. Don’t miss it.

DAVID CARR Senior reporter (theory expert)

STEWART MACHIN  Commentator (theory expert)

IAN MONGAN  Jockey (practical expert)

DAVE  ORTON  Race analysis (theory expert)

JAMES PYMAN  Senior analysis (theory expert)

TODAY’S RACECARD’S Hamilton, Kempton, Windsor, Hereford and Cork