Canford

Hughes, who has finished second for the past three years, declared in late June that "any prospect of winning the jockeys' championship is gone" after incurring a seven-day ban for careless riding and voluntarily declining some engagements for fear of missing the Sussex Stakes mount on the now-retired Canford Cliffs.

Richard Hughes the dark horse in race for Flat jockeys' championship | Lydia Hislop 2011

He is the best horse I've ever seen, said Sir Henry Cecil, his trainer, after Frankel thumped Canford Cliffs in the Sussex Stakes.

Frankel has potential to justify claims of greatness | Lydia Hislop 2011

Canford Cliffs was the last to implode and, although his trainer and jockey cite the way he faltered to the left at the finish as proof that he was below his best and others doubt whether he could be broken in a race in which the overall time was unremarkable, he was surely taken through those three furlongs at a faster pace than he has ever encountered before.

Frankel has potential to justify claims of greatness | Lydia Hislop 2011

What can you buy with that these days, apart from 600 Canford Cliffs?

Talking Horses 2010

Despite Canford Cliffs 'enforced absence from Saturday's Queen Elizabeth Stakes there are plenty of horses to be interested in and races worth studying.

Talking Horses 2010

Following Canford Cliffs 'withdrawal a field of eight will go to post on Saturday, with Cape Blanco and Rio De La Plata other notable absentees.

Talking Horses 2010

We returned to Canford, accompanied by Ken Uprichard, a stone conservator from the British Museum, who removed several layers of paint from the slab and pronounced it to be stone.

Saga of the Nineveh Marbles 1998

We were pleased with our discovery but concerned that the sculpture might now be sold, as had the other Canford reliefs.

Saga of the Nineveh Marbles 1998

In 1992, while doing research for the new book, I discovered an original sculpture still in place in the Nineveh Porch at Canford, now Canford School.

Stolen Stones: The Modern Sack of Nineveh 1996

This Norman held the manor of Canford, and Poole church was originally a chapel of ease for that parish.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes