The Story of Horseracing in 20 Races has crossed the finish line - unlock it all now with 60% off Racing Post+ Ultimate

The Racing Post’s epic summer series, The Story of Horseracing in 20 Races, has now crossed the finish line – and you can catch up with everything you’ve missed now by joining Racing Post+ Ultimate with 60% off your first month.

The Racing Post’s very best writers, including Racing Writers of the Year such as Lee Mottershead, Chris Cook and Peter Thomas, have brilliantly told the sport’s rich history, from the very first Derby in 1780, through the astonishing scenes of the Suffragette Derby and the scandal linked to the most important race ever run in Ireland, to the modern-day mayhem of Frankie Dettori’s Magnificent Seven, through to Frankel's 2,000 Guineas triumph in 2011, the most significant of the 21st century in our view.

To read the series in full, enter the code STORY20 when you join RP+ Ultimate Monthly and you’ll get your first month for just £20, meaning you can unlock all of The Story of Horseracing in 20 Races plus loads more sensational content over the next month, including the biggest and best jumps season preview, The Big Jump Off, available in the digital newspaper from 9pm on Sunday, October 19 and the start of our jumps stable tour series with Nicky Henderson the following day.

On top of award-winning journalism from the best writers in the sport, including current racing writer of the year Patrick Mullins and previous winners Lee Mottershead, Peter Thomas and Chris Cook, Racing Post+ Ultimate subscribers also have access to the Racing Post Digital Newspaper every evening from 9pm and daily best bets from the sport's top judges, led by Tom Segal and Paul Kealy, as well as golf's greatest tipster Steve Palmer, whose advice on the week's golf tournaments is now exclusively available to subscribers from 2pm every Tuesday.

You can also receive a range of daily newsletters every day, including Chris Cook's award-winning The Front Runner; find race replays and analysis of every race run in Britain and Ireland; our unique Pro Cards; and our brilliant Horse Tracker.

In the meantime, check out the full Story of Horseracing in 20 Races series:

1. The day racing changed forever: how the 1780 Derby sparked a 250-year turf revolution 

2. The Grand National didn't start in 1839 - this is the true story of racing's greatest race 

3. The dust-up to end all dust-ups that brought 150,000 to the Knavesmire - with not a public hanging in sight 

4. 'The killer of the English' - Gladiateur and the day Britain lost control of its greatest race 

5. How a son of slaves was mocked and abused by his peers - but then imitated forever 

6. The most dramatic and sensational race ever run - with tragic consequences that left racing under siege 

7. The Cheltenham Gold Cup transformed and Britain v Ireland ignited - all thanks to a young trainer who would become a legend 

8. How Longchamp's great leap forward redrew the map of world racing - with the help of a Hollywood icon

9. 'It was an impossible idea, just crazy' - how the godfather of international racing pushed back the sport's frontiers forever 

10. How Ireland became a global racing and bloodstock giant - thanks to a cash injection linked to one of the country's biggest scandals 

11. It was meant to be Cheltenham’s ultimate duel - it was actually the most incredible demolition job from the greatest of all time 

12. ‘Bugger, that worked perfectly’ - no more flags, fiascos and false starts (almost) as British racing is dragged into the modern age 

13. From patronising headlines to a place in history: the first step for women in a race still far from run

14. How Red Rum got off the beach to enter racing history - and breathed new life into Britain's greatest race

15. The day Sheikh Mohammed got the train to Brighton, was misnamed in the racecard and got hooked on British racing 

16. The greatest training achievement of all time - and why it put the intense visionary behind it through 'absolute hell' 

17. 'Dessie has done it' - how everyone's favourite grey overcame his greatest nemesis and captured a nation's hearts 

18. ‘What a waste of money,’ they cried - now racing couldn’t do without this vital lifeline

19. 'He should have been 1-4!' - reliving the only joyful day in British racing history when everything went wrong for the bookies 

20. Frankel was truly the GOAT - and this was the jaw-dropping moment when he left the rest behind  

To celebrate The Story of Horseracing in 20 Races, the Racing Post's epic weekly series that has run through 2025, you can get your first month of Racing Post+ Ultimate for £20 when you sign up via web using code STORY20 – that's a whopping 60% discount. Available only to new and returning customers. Subscription will auto-renew at £49.95 unless you call our cancellation line to cancel. Sign up now.