| AGHOSTOFACHANCE | Slim odds of a new stagecoach wandering without horse at the lead (1,5,2,1,6) |
| SPENDING | Odds of a race finish paying out |
| EVEN | Not odd (of a number) (4) |
| LEADER | Orchestra's principal first violin; a dog or horse at the front of a team; the head of an expedition; or, the first climber on a rope (6) |
| SOGGY | So a horse, at the end of the day, may be pretty muddy (5) |
| RHUBARB | Confusion of Ben with a horse at the greengrocer's |
| EPSOM | Town in Surrey, site of the racecourse where suffragette Emily Davison collided with George V's horse at the Derby in 1913 (5) |
| EMILY | Suffragette who died after being trampled by a horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby |
| ONETRACKMIND | Describes obsessive type on the last horse at The Curragh? Watch out! (3-5,4) |
| CLASSIC | Filly takes place of horse at the front in fashionable race |
| SWELTER | Horse at the back race and suffer in the heat (7) |
| TALENT | A particular aptitude back at the lead up to Easter |
| DAVISON | Suffragette who died after being trampled by a horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby (5,7) (See 22A) |
| CHAMPS | Bites, as a horse at the bit |
| GYMNASTICS | Disciplines exercise horse at the bar? This one requires mental agility (10) |
| SAGGED | Flopped down with horse at the rear in Fairyhouse - overall it's unfortunate (6) |
| HITITOFF | Get on horse at the start, it repeatedly getting away (3,2,3) |
| TROTTER | Hockey great Bryan loses one horse at the races (7) |
| EGYPTIAN | Tip: any horse at the finish struggles over Grand National (8) |
| SOIGNE | As one Grand National horse at the back is well-groomed (6) |
