Meghan Markle made her first appearance with husband Prince Harry on the first day of the 2018 Royal Ascot festival in London on Tuesday, joining Queen Elizabeth II, who has not missed opening day at the Royal Meeting for decades. The newly crowned princess could be getting a much closer connection to the sport of kings if the public decide to name a racehorse after her. A prominent British gaming group is running a competition allowing punters to name an unraced three-year-old horse, and their campaign, #HorseWithNoName, has received major coverage on Twitter. The horse will go into training with leading handler Jamie Osborne. The name "Meghan Arkle" has made the shortlist of 16. The name is a pun on Arkle, a horse who dominated racing in the UK in the 1960s. Back home Gaynor Rupert, a member of our own racing royalty, bred a colt called Charles at her Drakenstein Stud near Franschhoek. Charles, who fetched R6m at the Cape Premier Yearling Sale in 2017 and became the most expensive...
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