Loder in the spotlight

2005

For many years The Irish Field ran a popular column called ‘Stewards’ Inquiry’. This week, 15 years ago, Sir Edmund Loder answered the questions.

Name: Sir Edward Loder

Position: Owner, Eyrefield Lodge Stud

What has been your best moment in racing? When Marling rallied to beat Selkirk in the Sussex Stakes in 1992

What’s your earliest racing memory? Going through the card at Deauville in 1950, albeit to a FF100 stakes (two shillings then!)

Who would you most like to meet? My grandfather – killed when my father was three.

What’s the best book you have read? After The Twelfth by J.K. Stanford

Favourite saying: In racing breed speed to speed.

What’s playing in your car stereo? Unfortunately I’m tone deaf, so usually sport.