Though Kempton stages a competitive card on Saturday afternoon with a number of informative races, not least the Ladbrokes Chase (3.35), all eyes are being drawn to Cheltenham.
Coming off a sharp gate-to-wire conquest in the Mac Diarmida Stakes (G2T), Capture the Flag now looks to win again at Gulfstream Park in the March 29 Pan American Stakes (G3T).
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Saturday's meetings at Kempton, Newcastle, Southwell, Chepstow and Chelmsford City.
Trainer Gary Contessa's claim that he did not know about a change in New York State's claiming rules when he violated a new provision governing claimed horses running out of state "strains credibility,'' according to a hearing officer's comments.
Three-time Cheltenham winner Delta Work has died at the age of 12, it has been announced after suffering from a bout of colic.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Friday's meetings at Exeter, Warwick and Southwell.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Thursday's meetings at Huntingdon, Lingfield and Newcastle.
DOMINIC KING: Michael O'Sullivan was described as having made an impression on the hearts of a nation, as a family - and a sport - came together to honour his life.
Neptune Collonges was rated 33-1 ahead of the 2012 iteration of the iconic race, but challenged with Daryl Jacob aboard until the last, winning the day by a nose past Sunnyhillboy
DOMINIC KING: Desert Hero gave King Charles an enormous thrill at Royal Ascot in June 2023, when coming with a thundering late run to take the King George V Handicap.
Golden Ace is a shock 25-1 winner of the Champion Hurdle after previous victors Constitution Hill and State Man fall.
Inothewayurthinkin beats Galopin Des Champs to the Gold Cup at the climax of the Cheltenham Festival.
Racehorses in Britain are to be tested for gene doping as part of a new initiative by the British Horseracing Authority.
Jockey Hollie Doyle secures her 1,000th winner in Britain - and says she hopes to go on and double her tally.
Lorcan Williams had to make a decision between horse racing and rugby when he was a teenager.
After winning the Champion Hurdle on Golden Ace, he's convinced he made the right call.
Mauritzfontein, who own the Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein bred Gimme a Nother, will be offering buyers a chance to find the next Gimme a Nother when they bring a classy draft to the 2025 National Yearling Sale, April 10-11.
Fast-improving sophomores Cornucopian, Disruptor, Tappan Street try top Kentucky Derby (G1) prep races, the Arkansas Derby (G1) and the Florida Derby (G1).
It was Thornton's first grade 2 win and first graded stakes win since 2011 when he won the Stars and Stripes (G3) at Arlington Park. The win was over a field that included Sierra Leone making his first start since the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1).
Jen Roytz, co-owner of Brownstead Farm and president of the Kentucky Horse Council, shares her insights on bridging the gap between the racing industry and the off-track Thoroughbred (OTTB) community.
A class drop and an opportunity to race a shorter distance suggest FMQ Stables' Saudi Crown will be a force in the $500,000 Oaklawn Mile Stakes (G3) March 29 at Oaklawn Park.
Bryce Miller, a San Diego Union-Tribune writer who earned a media Eclipse Award in 2019, died March 22. He was 56.
This week's schedule of racing on radio and television, compiled by America's Best Racing.
Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott and Godolphin have secured the riding services of Manny Franco for Sovereignty's highly anticipated start in the $1 million Florida Derby (G1) March 29 at Gulfstream Park.
White Abarrio returns after winning the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) at Gulfstream Park in the Ghostzapper Stakes (G3) there March 29.
Dual group 1-winning mare Emily Upjohn has been sold to Northern Farm and will relocate to Japan later this year.
Michael Keady will be hoping to kickstart his National Hunt training career at the Randox Grand National on April 5.
The Grand National is set to take place at Aintree next month.
Poniros sprung an upset at the Cheltenham Festival, winning the Triumph Hurdle at odds of 100/1.
It's not always going to be a case of who finishes first in the future.
The Grand National is set to take place on April 5, and one runner has recently been stripped of one of their recent race wins.
Richard Newland is desperate for changes to preserve the spirit of the Grand National.
Your Essential Guide to the 2025 Grand National - Runners, Stats & Expert Insights!
The Grand National Festival at Aintree is just two weeks away.
The Grand National market has been blown wide open after Inothewayurthinkin was scratched earlier this week.
DOMINIC KING: Two years ago, O'Sullivan arrived at The Festival entrusted with the mount on Marine Nationale for the Supreme. He had only had one previous ride at Cheltenham.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Monday's meetings at Carlisle, Southwell and Wolverhampton.
DOMINIC KING: Michael O'Sullivan, the Cheltenham Festival winning jockey and one of racing's rising stars, has tragically died due to the injuries he sustained in a fall at Thurles.
The spring in Nicky Richards's step may be missing, but the glint in his eye returned and nobody was complaining as he saddled the winner of Haydock's Grand National Trial
The prevailing image in the aftermath of a lot of the top-class races National Hunt fans will enjoy is likely to be the green and gold silks of JP McManus ruling the roost again.
DOMINIC KING: Sean Bowen reached a significant landmark in his increasingly successful career as he became the latest member of the 1000 winner club.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Saturday's meetings at Southwell, Newcastle, Ascot, Wincanton and Haydock.
DOMINIC KING: Nicky Henderson could not bring the headline act to Newbury on Sunday, but still ended up stealing the show with the flying mare Joyeuse.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Friday's meetings at Kelso, Southwell, Fakenham and Newcastle.
Group 1 winning trainer Anthony Cummings has had his licence sensationally revoked by Racing NSW following an ongoing investigation into the collapse of his business.
The catalogue for the last of the British-based two-year-old sales of this year has been released by Tattersalls.
The Guineas Breeze-up Sale is held in conjunction with the Guineas Horses-in-Training Sale at Park Paddocks on Thursday, May 1. The 198 juveniles will breeze on the Rowley Mile on Wednesday, April 30 from 9am.
The breezers include a Mehmas (Ire) filly out of a half-sister to Grade I winner Digital Age (GB) and a full-sister to classy sprinter Twilight Calls (GB) (Twilight Son {GB}), who was second in the G1 King's Stand Stakes.
Among the 14 first-crop sires with offspring catalogued is St Mark's Basilica (Fr), who is represented by a colt out of a half-sister to multiple Group winner and Grade I runner-up Hawksmoor (Ire)...
Three previously graded races in Canada have been downgraded following an annual review of graded and listed stakes in the country by The Jockey Club Of Canada's Graded Stakes Committee.
The Committee reviews the North American Race Committee (NARC) figures and Race Quality Scores (RQS) for all graded, listed and potentially listed races and determined that the GII Autumn Stakes and GII Seagram Cup Stakes, each run at Woodbine, will carry Grade III status in 2025. Additionally, the GIII BC Premier's Handicap at Hastings Park in Vancouver, will be downgraded to listed status.
A total of 41 graded events will be contested in Canada in 2025, all but two of those at Woodbine. The GIII Canadian Derby is held at Century Mile, while Hastings plays host to the GIII British Columbia Derby. The five Grade I events on tap for 2025 are the Canadian International Stakes–back after a one-year hiatus–the E.P. Taylor Stakes, the GI Woodbine Mile, the GI Natalma Stakes and GI Summer...
NBC Sports will continue to present the Breeders' Cup across its various networks and platforms through 2030, as the two organizations announced a multi-year extension of their partnership Mar. 26. The championships will be telecast on the parent network as well as Peacock and USA Network for the next six years.
The new deal commences this year with a total of 10 hours of coverage of the 2025 Breeders' Cup from Del Mar, including 3 1/2 hours of programming on NBC in addition to coverage on the USA Network. Peacock will stream the event live over the course of the two days.
NBC broadcast the inaugural Breeders' Cup World Championships in 1984, and presented the first 22 events (through 2005) before returning as the media home of the event in 2012. NBC Sports will have served as the home of the Breeders' Cup in 41 of its 47 years at the conclusion of this new agreement.
“NBC sets the gold standard in sports broadcasting and will continue to bring the thrill and...
City Of Troy, the co-top-rated racehorse in the world in 2024, will shuttle to Coolmore's Australian base in the Hunter Valley for the southern hemisphere season. The son of Justify will stand for a fee of A$49,500.
European champion at two and three, City Of Troy's unbeaten juvenile campaign ended with victory in the Dewhurst Stakes and he went on to win the Derby, Eclipse and Juddmonte International the following year to take his tally of Group 1 victories to four.
Coolmore Australia's sales and nominations manager Colm Santry said, “We are so excited to stand...
Manny Franco will accompany Godolphin's Sovereignty (Into Mischief) in Saturday's $1-million GI Curlin Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park.
The New York-based jockey will fill in for regular rider Junior Alvarado, who sustained a shoulder injury in a racing mishap Sunday. Alvarado has been aboard the bay for all four starts, including a last-to-first victory in the Mar. 1 GII Fountain of Youth.
Franco is currently atop the jockey standings at the current Aqueduct meet.
“I can rarely get him. He's never been easy to get to ride, but I think he won a couple of Grade Is for us on Channel Maker,” said Mott, who gave Franco a leg up for back-to-back victories in the 2020 GI Sword Dancer at Saratoga and GI Joe Hirsch Turf Classic at Belmont. “He's done well with the ones he's ridden for us.”
Franco won the 2020 GI Florida Derby and GIII Holy...
The breeding game's loss could be the racetrack's gain after Amo Racing revealed on Tuesday that Group 1-winning sprinter Bucanero Fuerte (GB) has made a return to training with Adrian Murray following an unsuccessful stint at stud.
Big things had been expected from Bucanero Fuerte at Tally-Ho Stud, where he had been advertised at an opening fee of €12,500. However, after failing to get a single mare in foal, he is back in full training and connections are quietly hopeful that the hugely-talented son of Wootton Bassett (GB) can make the return to the racecourse a seamless one.
Confirming the news, Amo Racing's Ryan McElligott told TDN Europe, “Bucanero Fuerte has been withdrawn from stud duties. He has returned to Adrian Murray, who will bring him along with a view to having him ready for a return to the track. He was a top-class...
A bill that had a committee hearing on Monday in the Minnesota House of Representatives would make a one-time transfer of $7 million from the state's general fund to establish a Thoroughbred pilot program to award Canterbury Park horse owners $750 per start during the 2026 and 2027 race meets provided those horses have met a residency registration requirement by being stabled at the track for 120 days during the previous season.
Bill HF 1540 would also earmark “at least” $500,000 in 2026 and 2027 for the state's commissioner of agriculture to award grants to Thoroughbred aftercare organizations, and “at least” another $500,000 each year would fund mental health and educational services for Canterbury's backstretch community.
Horse owners would have to pay an application fee of $100 to be eligible for the program...
Northern Farm has snapped up multiple Group 1 winner Emily Upjohn (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), who is reported to be in foal to the unbeaten Breeders' Cup Classic winner Flightline.
Emily Upjohn was famously sourced by Tom Goff of Blandford Bloodstock for just 60,000gns at the Book 2 session of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale in 2020.
Trained by John and Thady Gosden, Emily Upjohn won five of her 16 starts and won over £1.2 million in prize-money. Emily Upjohn's career-highlight came when winning the G1 Champions Fillies and Mares at Ascot on British Champions Day in 2022, while she was also successful at the highest level when landing the Coronation Cup at Epsom in 2023.
Confirming that the...
Dual Group 1 winner Vandeek (GB) will shuttle to Arrowfield Stud in Australia from Cheveley Park Stud in England later this year.
Arrowfield's Chairman John Messara said, “He's a great-looking, unbeaten champion two-year-old by a brilliant young stallion [Havana Grey (GB)]–that all makes Vandeek an attractive prospect for us, especially in light of the Australian market's enthusiasm for stallions like Too Darn (GB) Hot and Wootton Bassett (GB), with top-class European two-year-old sprint form.”
Vandeek has been described by his jockey James Doyle as “a pure ball of speed”.
A graduate from the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale, he was sourced by KHK Racing, for whom he went unbeaten as a juvenile with wins in the Prix Morny and Middle Park Stakes. He was trained by Simon and...
Group winner Field Of Gold (Ire) anchors the Juddmonte Classic brigade, and he is pointing to a start in the G3 Craven Stakes at Newmarket, according to racing manager Barry Mahon.
The G3 Solario Stakes-winning son of Kingman (GB) won second out at Newmarket last July. After his group tally in August, the John and Thady Gosden trainee went on to finish fourth in soft going in the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere in the autumn. He will be joined by Harry Charlton's fellow Kingman colt Cosmic Year (GB), who won his lone start at Sandown in September; and maiden winner Jonquil (GB) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), who switched from Sir Michael Stoute's yard to Andrew Balding, in Guineas trials. All three are 'TDN Rising Stars', and, if they perform to...
