Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Wednesday's meetings at Chester, Newton Abbot, Kelso, Fontwell and Kempton.
After being roasted over the coals for her 'awkward' contribution to a Churchill Downs tradition, former college gymnast Livvy Dunne is responding to her critics.
NBC Sports anchor Ahmed Fareed was starting to feel like the Maytag repairman while serving as Mike Tirico's understudy at last weekend's Kentucky Derby.
Fans shared their concern for the 58-year-old's health earlier on in the broadcast and then fellow broadcaster Ahmed Fareed suddenly jumped in to take his place after a commercial break.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Tuesday's meetings at Fakenham, Wolverhampton, Ffos Las and Worcester.
Trawlerman wins the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot in a track record under a brilliant front-running ride from William Buick, while Ryan Moore has a treble.
Royal Ascot starts on Tuesday with three top-level Group One races on the opening day kicking off the action in style.
One person was taken to hospital on day two of the event, racecourse officials confirm.
BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team looks at the 2025 Royal Ascot festival, which takes place from 17 to 21 June.
Now a two-time winner at Royal Ascot, Crimson Advocate has shown the versatility of American breeding on one of racing's biggest international stages.
Vahva returned to form with a victory in the Chicago Stakes (G2) June 21 at Churchill Downs, a win that snapped a three-race losing streak that dated back to her victory in last year's edition of this seven-furlong sprint for older fillies and mares.
Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, one of the most prolific trainers and influences in horse racing history, has been hospitalized in Louisville, Ky. and will not return to training, according to family members.
West Point Thoroughbreds and Jimmy Kahig's Cugino impressed his Hall of Fame-trainer Shug McGaughey with a winning 4-year-old debut in an optional-claimer going 1 1/16 miles on the inner turf at Aqueduct June 19.
Hayayakko, a 9-year-old white horse owned by Makoto Kaneko, has run his last race and will enjoy a pensioned life at Northern Horse Park in Hokkaido, Japan.
Never traveling beyond a mile before June 21, Mo Plex handled his first two-turn test with aplomb in the $500,000 Ohio Derby (G3) at Thistledown.
John and Thady Gosden were crowned the leading trainers at the Royal Ascot meet, with their brilliant week headlined by Field of Gold's superstar performance in the June17 St James's Palace Stakes (G1).
Globetrotting champion Rebel's Romance stepped into the ring and stamped his authority over the Hardwicke Stakes (G2) June 21, by far the most important victory on home soil for the U.K.-trained horse.
A good week for jockey Kieran Shoemark turned into a great one when Noble Champion ran out an impressive 25-1 winner of the Jersey Stakes (G3) at Royal Ascot.
ITV Racing expert Kevin Blake has previewed day one of Royal Ascot and has picked out three horses to follow, including a 10-1 shot in the Queen Anne Stakes.
Punters will flock to Ascot this afternoon for the opening day of the Royal meeting.
Jack Doughty has forged a successful partnership with trainer Tony Carroll and the rider is going to Royal Ascot after recently celebrating his 100th winner
Top tips from the Daily Express expert The Scout as Royal Ascot 2025 begins with a seven-race card featuring the St James's Palace Stakes
DOMINIC KING AT NEWMARKET: Godolphin, the venture of Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed, are synonymous with winning big races but they have never hit the jackpot quite like this.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Monday's meetings at Windsor, Kempton, Bath and Warwick.
This weekend was a proud one for horse trainer Will Walden, who saw his filly Bless the Broken finish third in the Kentucky Oaks on Friday.
Livvy Dunne's first Kentucky Oaks did not go exactly to plan as she was mocked for her 'Rider's Up' call before the race.
Alix Earle, 24, left the internet fuming after she shared a video of her and her NFL boyfriend Braxton Berrios, 29, at the Kentucky Derby race over the weekend.
Sovereignty won the 2025 Kentucky Derby on Saturday after edging out the favorite Journalism in a thrilling finish. But where did every other horse finish? Daily Mail has the full results.
Soverignty has won the Kentucky Derby in sloppy conditions at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
DOMINIC KING AT NEWMARKET: It takes a special kind of horse to win the Betfred 2,000 Guineas - but Ruling Court might just be of the highest calibre.
EXCLUSIVE: The Super Bowl of horse racing is here! It's almost time for the Kentucky Derby and the eyes of the world will look to the spectacle in Louisville.
What a tremendous thrill it was to see Galopin Des Champs avenge his Cheltenham Gold Cup defeat with a scintillating victory in the Punchestown equivalent this week.
Bringing an end to a three-year winless streak at Royal Ascot for Charlie Appleby, Dubawi's international heavyweight Rebel's Romance landed the required knockout blow in Saturday's G2 Hardwicke Stakes. Always travelling easily behind the genuine pace, the 6-4 favourite took control two out and drew away under William Buick to beat Al Riffa (Wootton Bassett) by 1 3/4 lengths, with Ghostwriter (Invincible Spirit) 1 1/2 lengths away in third.
“He's a worldwide superstar–I have a picture of him on my bedside table, he means so much to us,” commented Appleby, whose last win at the meeting came with Naval Crown in the 2022 G1 Platinum Jubilee Stakes. “If one horse was going to pull it out of the bag, it was Rebel's Romance.”
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GI Kentucky Derby hero Mystik Dan (Goldencents) will square off against old foe, GI Longines Breeders' Cup Classic winner, and 'TDN Rising Star Sierra Leone (Gun Runner), plus G1 Dubai World Cup champ Hit Show (Candy Ride {Arg}) and GISW sprinter and 'TDN Rising Star' Mindframe (Constitution) in next Saturday's 44th running of the $1-million GI Stephen Foster Stakes at Churchill Downs, which is a “Win and You're In” qualifier for the Breeders' Cup Classic.
The last time Mystik Dan and Sierra Leone faced one another was in the 2024 Derby, when the former took home the...
The Coolmore partners were named the leading owners at Royal Ascot for the third consecutive year and sixth in total, as the five-day stand wrapped up on Saturday.
Although they had five victories–the same as runner-up Wathnan Racing–they claimed their latest title by virtue of a countback of placed horses. For Sue Magnier, Derrick Smith, Michael Tabor and Westerberg, Gstaad (Starspangledbanner), True Love (No Nay Never), and Charles Darwin (No Nay Never) took the G2 Coventry Stakes, G2 Queen Mary Stakes, and G2 Norfolk Stakes, respectively. Garden Of Eden (...
Sunday, Dortmund, Germany, post time: 14:55, 36TH GROSSER PREIS DER WIRTSCHAFT-G3, €55,000, 3yo/up, 9fT
Field: Petit Marin (Ger) (Flamingo Fantasy {Ger}), Best Lightning (Fr) (Sidestep {Aus}), Merkur (Fr) (Kingman {GB}), Muhalif (Ger) (Lawman {Fr}), New Emerald (Ger) (Protectionist {Ger}), Calyx Rose (Ire) (Calyx {GB}), New York City (Ger) (Sea The Moon {Ger}), Zora (Fr) (Toronado {Ire}), Next Mine (Ger) (Dabirsim {Fr}).
TDN Verdict: Best Lightning, who won this heat in 2023 and ran third last year, is one of two entries from the Andreas Suborics stable and the 2021 G2 German 2000 Guineas third gets an opportunity of adding to his three prior pattern-race victories in this prime example of an open renewal. Old foe Petit Marin, third here in 2023, is on a roll and heads postward off successes in October's G2 Premio...
Saturday's G1 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes lived up to all the billing, with Lazzat (Territories) denying the Japanese challenger Satono Reve (Lord Kanaloa) to provide Wathnan with a fifth Royal Ascot winner this week. Placed on the front end by James Doyle, the Jerome Reynier-trained G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest winner who was having only his second start over this six-furlong trip had too much power for that 2-1 favourite to prevail by half a length. There was a three-length gap back to Wathnan's other hope, Flora Of Bermuda (Dark Angel), in third. Unsurprisingly, it was a race-record time, shaving a tenth of a second off that of Blue Point's.
“That's capped an amazing week,” Richard Brown said. “What an amazing horse race, he's locked up with the Japanese horse there and they've gone a long way clear–it was an absolutely phenomenal race to watch and to be on the lucky side is just amazing.”
“Japanese horses are...
6th-MTH, $47k, Msw, 3yo/up, 1-1/16mT, 3:25p.m. ET
INVESTMENT MANDATE (Constitution) goes to post here for the team of Klaravich Stables and trainer Chad Brown. A $525,000 KEESEP yearling, the gelding is a son of multiple Grade I-placed Faithfully (Smart Strike), herself out of a half-sister to multiple Grade I-winner Good Reward (Storm Cat). The elite black type runs heavily in the family as the third dam responsible for the line is champion 3-year-old filly MGISW Heavenly Prize (Seeking the Gold). In addition to the above mentioned horses, through daughters and granddaughters, the mare claims GISW Persistently (Smoke Glacken); GISW Queen Goddess (Empire Maker); and GISW Instilled Regard (Arch) as...
Godolphin ran one-two in the seven-furlong Newmarket opener just not with the horse the market expected, as Pacific Avenue (Dubawi) stole a march on his Charlie Appleby stablemate and 'TDN Rising Star' Wild Desert (Too Darn Hot) to earn a 'Rising Star' badge of his own. Godolphin's Ancient Truth (Dubawi) won the 2024 edition of this race prior to taking the G2 Superlative Stakes and running third in the G1 Dewhurst Stakes.
The son of G1 Cheveley Park Stakes heroine and fellow 'Rising Star' Lumiere (Shamardal) settled in a tugging second while keeping a close eye on Commander's Intent (Victor Ludorum) who led the way over Newmarket's July course. A bit keen in the early going, the 9-1 shot focused on business under Dougie Costello and found another gear to challenge the pacesetter inside the final two furlongs. Meanwhile the 30-100 crowd's pick Wild Desert had been trapped against the fence...
Forbidden Apple (Pleasant Colony–North of Eden {Ire}, by Northfields), a Grade I winner of nearly $1.7 million, passed away June 16 due to the infirmities of old age at the age of 30 at TRF Second Chances at Lowell, where he resided since 2013.
He was remembered by the TRF Friday with the release noting that, “At Lowell, Forbidden Apple, affectionately known as “Apple,” quickly became a favorite among Second Chances Program students and staff. His gentle demeanor, playful nature, and deep love for treats and grooming brushes made him both a teacher and a companion to all who knew him.”
One of a number of top-class horses bred by Arthur Appleton from North of Eden–a half-sister to champion Theatrical (Ire)–Forbidden Apple was trained throughout his career by the late Christophe Clement, making all but one of his 31 starts on the grass. After posting the first graded success of his career in the GII Belmont Cup Breeders' Cup Handicap, he registered his...
Saturday, Ascot, post time: 15:40, THE QUEEN ELIZABETH II JUBILEE S.-G1, £1,000,000, 4yo/up, 6f 0y
Field: Annaf (Ire) (Muhaarar {GB}), Elite Status (GB) (Havana Grey {GB}), Grand Grey (Ire) (Havana Grey {GB}), Iberian (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), Inisherin (GB) (Shamardal), James's Delight (Ire) (Invincible Army {Ire}), Jasour (GB) (Havana Grey {GB}), Lazzat (Fr) (Territories {Ire}), Run To Freedom (GB) (Muhaarar {GB}), Sajir (Ire) (Make Believe {GB}), Satono Reve (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}), Storm Boy (Aus) (Justify), Topgear (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), Flora Of Bermuda (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), Great Generation (Ire) (...
The California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) on Thursday voted down two separate proposals to allocate 2025 race dates to entities at Ferndale and Fresno that wanted to keep Thoroughbred racing going on the now-nonexistent Northern California circuit.
The 4-3 votes on each measure dashed what appeared to be the last remaining hopes for a 2025 resuscitation of the sport in a region of the state that as recently as two summers ago boasted a year-round rotation of racing anchored by one commercial track and five fair venues.
The June 19 decisions by the CHRB marked the third straight month that supporters of NorCal racing had tried but failed to advance attempts to race at Ferndale.
The April CHRB meeting resulted in a vote-down of racing at Pleasanton and a failure to garner enough votes for a decision either way on Ferndale....
