Goss wins a second Complete Utilities Golden Button Challenge Yvonne Goss riding Untilla Legend – aka Jaffa – won the 2018 Complete Utilities Golden Button Challenge, becoming the first dual winner of the race. Goss, who landed the inaugural running in 2006, partnered her ex-racehorse to victory over point-to-point riders Rowan Cope, Peter Bull and Ed Bailey, who filled the next three places. All 45 horses and riders who came under orders were reported unscathed. Two other former winners were less fortunate than Goss and failed to complete the course. Dominic Gwyn-Jones, who won the 2015...

Under orders for 2018 Golden Button Challenge When Grand National-winning jockey Paul Carberry says “The Golden Button Challenge is the closest thing to riding in a race for me, it’s the same buzz” then you know it’s something special. First run in 2006 — when won by Yvonne Goss [who rides again this year]— the Ledbury Hunt’s Golden Button Challenge takes place over three miles of rolling Gloucestershire countryside. It has a fearsome reputation and attracts riders from all over the world, from a variety of backgrounds. This year’s Golden Button takes place in Ledbury Hunt...

J D falls for not one, but two challenges J D Moore has succumbed to the lure of riding in the Ledbury Hunt’s seventh Complete Utilities Golden Button Challenge, reasoning: “It’s been on my bucket list, and I wanted it gone.” A former amateur rider, national novice point-to-point champion and now a bloodstock agent, John Daniel – but known to all as J D – has a surname that will be known to fans of Jump racing. His grandfather, Dan, trained L’Escargot to win two Cheltenham Gold Cups and then thwart the mighty Red Rum’s bid for a third consecutive Grand National – although...