WELL done to all the winners over the many years at the Kiplingcotes Derby (The Press, March 25). Reading the Soap Box from Ken Thorpe brought back floods of memories 20 years now past.

In 1994 the race was stopped for a short time as a man had collapsed and died at the winning post.

The winner that day was Ken Holmes but his celebrations were short-lived, as the man who had died was Ken’s pal Peter Smith (my dad, aged 65) the two men have and had a passion for horses, Ken with racehorses and Peter with working horses.

The death certificate details date and place, March 17, 1994, Kiplingcotes Race Track.

The photograph above shows my dad with Rosey pulling a dray with hay on.

Len Smith, Wincester Avenue, York.