Galopin Des Champs lit up the Punchestown Festival with a performance that left Willie Mullins believing he can conquer Cheltenham once again.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Thursday's meetings at Yarmouth, Chelmsford City, Punchestown, Southwell, Redcar and Ayr.
Pre-race favourite Fralimonti Bilbery was seeking to gain an advantage on the inside as the runners and riders were making their way around the circuit.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Wednesday's meetings at Ascot, Ponterfract, Punchestown, Brighton and Southwell.
It's believed that the crash occurred shortly after Murphy, 29, raced at Leicester on Saturday afternoon - where he won three times in the seven-race event.
A steward's report from the British Horseracing Authority later claimed that Murphy missed the opportunity to partake in a further four races due to 'travel issues'.
Magic Cap Stable's Fort Washington will look for his third consecutive graded stakes win June 28 in the $500,000 Wise Dan Stakes (G2T) at Churchill Downs.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Tuesday's meetings at Nottingham, Punchestown, Brighton and Wolverhampton.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Monday's meetings at Ayr, Lingfield, Wolverhampton and Windsor.
DOMINIC KING: First he wanted to share a handshake with Dan Skelton, then he wanted to congratulate Olly Murphy, who had saddled the last big winner of jumps season.
The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) becomes the latest major organisation to be targeted by a cyber attack.
Lambourn storms away from his rivals to win the Derby at Epsom and give Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien a record-extending 11th win in the Classic.
French runner Lazzat runs free down the track after holding off Satono Reve to deny Japan a first triumph at Royal Ascot.
Ombudsman wins the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot where Wednesday's racing is overshadowed by a fatal injury for filly Harry's Girl in the opening contest.
Many are attending the first day of Royal Ascot wearing particularly extravagant headwear.
The 33-1 outsider Cercene holds on in a thrilling finish to become the longest-priced winner of the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Field Of Gold surges to a spectacular victory in the St James's Palace Stakes at Ascot.
Racegoers are showing off their fashions at day four of Royal Ascot in Berkshire.
For the third day in a row, extravagant fashions are on display at Royal Ascot.
About 250,000 people are expected to attend Royal Ascot before it finishes on Saturday.
Magic Cap Stable's Fort Washington will look for his third consecutive graded stakes win June 28 in the $500,000 Wise Dan Stakes (G2T) at Churchill Downs.
Grosvenor Sport ambassador Harry Eustace provides updates on what's next for Docklands, Time For Sandals, La Botte and Divine Comedy.
New Ascot chief executive Felicity Barnard was delighted with the 4.8% increase in total attendance across the five-day royal meeting.
Leandro Henrique appeared to celebrate too early and almost threw away his mount's victory.
Aidan O'Brien is one of the most successful trainers in the history of horse racing.
The weather has been scorching in the UK this week and most took advantage of the good weather by heading to Royal Ascot - but some were caught out by the rules
Express Sport brings you the latest from the final day of Royal Ascot.
The King and Queen have enjoyed all five days of Royal Ascot and they looked on as Lazzat dumped jockey James Doyle after the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes
James Doyle was thrown off just moments after winning Saturday's feature race.
Punters have to pay a premium at Royal Ascot 2025
Royal Ascot 2025 concludes today with the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes the headline race of the day.
RECAP: Express Sport takes you through Friday's action at Royal Ascot.
There were horrifying scenes as Royal Ascot racegoers got into a bloody brawl.
Galopin Des Champs lit up the Punchestown Festival with a performance that left Willie Mullins believing he can conquer Cheltenham once again.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Thursday's meetings at Yarmouth, Chelmsford City, Punchestown, Southwell, Redcar and Ayr.
Pre-race favourite Fralimonti Bilbery was seeking to gain an advantage on the inside as the runners and riders were making their way around the circuit.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Wednesday's meetings at Ascot, Ponterfract, Punchestown, Brighton and Southwell.
It's believed that the crash occurred shortly after Murphy, 29, raced at Leicester on Saturday afternoon - where he won three times in the seven-race event.
A steward's report from the British Horseracing Authority later claimed that Murphy missed the opportunity to partake in a further four races due to 'travel issues'.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Tuesday's meetings at Nottingham, Punchestown, Brighton and Wolverhampton.
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Monday's meetings at Ayr, Lingfield, Wolverhampton and Windsor.
DOMINIC KING: First he wanted to share a handshake with Dan Skelton, then he wanted to congratulate Olly Murphy, who had saddled the last big winner of jumps season.
In a shocking blow to the Australian harness racing community, celebrated trainer and driver Greg Sugars has passed away unexpectedly aged just 40.
The Curragh Racecourse, with their sponsor Al Basti Equiworld, Dubai, will honour the late Kevin Prendergast by running the International Stakes in memory of the legendary trainer.
The Group 3 contest takes place this Saturday, the second day of the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby Festival, and will be titled “The Al Basti Equiworld, Dubai International Stakes in honour of Kevin Prendergast”.
Prendergast, who died last week at the age of 92, trained on the Curragh for over 60 years, with his big-race victories at the track including consecutive editions of the International Stakes with Mustameet in 2006 and Decado in 2007.
It's been a long time between drinks for Vahva (Gun Runner), the 2024 GI Derby City Distaff Stakes winner whose last career win came exactly a year ago in the Chicago Stakes at Churchill Downs, when it was a Grade III event. Upgraded to Grade II this year, the Chicago Stakes was targeted by Vahva's connections after the now-5-year-old made no impact in this year's edition of the Derby City Distaff.
Irad Ortiz, Jr. kept her a little closer to the pace than usual in the Chicago, as she tracked 62-1 Gray Lightning (Social Inclusion) through fractions of :22.82 and :45.26. On the far turn, Claret Beret (Not This Time) joined Vahva to her outside as she pounced on Gray Lighting and the two raced...
On Monday, Racing Victoria announced changes to the original 2021 veterinary protocols for horses competing at the Spring Carnival.
“The protocols have served to arrest an alarming trend and been a catalyst for the last four Spring Racing Carnivals and Melbourne Cups being conducted without serious injuries,” said Racing Victoria CEO Aaron Morrison.
“After each Carnival the protocols are evaluated to consider their application, ongoing suitability and any potential enhancements based on stakeholder feedback, our learnings, data and new technology. What remains unchanged is that every international horse will have to pass a CT scan to compete here. However, we're taking a more pragmatic approach with the volume of scans for those horses not entered in the Cups or Cox Plate.”
He added, “Our goal remains to deliver world-class racing, whilst ensuring the safety of horses and riders. We look forward to working with international and local connections to maintain...
Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas has been hospitalized in Louisville, Kentucky and will not return to training, according to Lukas family members.
In a release sent out by Churchill Downs, the family shared that Lukas had been battling a severe infection that had worsened his condition, and has reportedly declined an aggressive treatment plan in favor of returning home to spend his remaining time with his loved ones.
In a succession plan put in place by Lukas Enterprises, Inc., horses previously under Lukas's care have been transferred to his assistant Sebastian 'Bas' Nicholl.
“Wayne built a legacy that will never be matched,” Nicholl said. “Every decision I make, every horse I saddle, I'll hear his voice in the back of my mind. This isn't about filling his shoes–no one can–it's about honoring everything that he's built.”
The Industry Reacts
Mike Anderson, president of Churchill Downs Racetrack ...
The folks who fought to preserve racing at the Northern California's remote half-miler in Ferndale deserve tremendous respect and credit for soldiering on to the bitter end.
Make no mistake, the cessation of racing at the Humboldt County Fairgrounds in the coastal region of NorCal definitely rates as “bitter.”
There is no sugarcoating this one like a sticky tuft of cotton candy from the midway of Humboldt County's charmingly rural fairgrounds, whose ties to the sport date to 1896. Advocates for racing at Ferndale (pop. 1,398), a Victorian village with an agricultural bent and an artistic vibe nestled between California's redwood region and its fabled Lost Coast, went down swinging at last Thursday's California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) meeting.
For three consecutive months, proponents tried to convince commissioners to extend a lifeline in the form of a 2025 race dates allocation. Out-of-the-way Ferndale has traditionally been the most pastoral, yet vibrantly...
Feel free to make plans, working with Thoroughbreds–just don't be deceived that it'll ever be you who decides how far they work out.
With a young son to raise, Becky Maker had quit the rootless life of a trainer and taken a role on the pre-training team at WinStar.
“Just to stay in one place, have a salary and be safe,” she remembers wryly. “Within six months I had a horse rear up and flip over in the shedrow. Severe fracture of the femur. So after 20 years galloping on the track, I go to the farm for a safe job and that's how it worked out. But it was life-changing.”
Once out of hospital, she accepted that the horses had given her a heavy hint; that they were, in fact, making new plans for her.
“I didn't want to be left unable to take care of my son just because I couldn't make myself stop riding,” she says. “Riding had been my whole life, from the age of four. So it was a hard decision. But when it's time, you stop. It was just that I then had to look...
9th-Monmouth, $51,975, Msw, 6-22, 3yo/up, 6f, 1:10.93, ft, 6 1/2 lengths.
DRAGONITE (c, 3, Practical Joke–Snapdragon, by Super Saver), sent off the 7-5 choice for this unveiling, prompted 2-1 second chance Soar Richard (Omaha Beach) through an initial quarter in :22.24. Overtaking that rival approaching the quarter pole, the homebred drew off late to score by 6 1/2 lengths over Ripton's Music (Maclean's Music). Soar Richard was third. Snapdragon, who sold in foal to Oxbow at KEENOV in 2022, produced that colt in 2023 followed by a filly by the Calumet sire last season. Most recently, she foaled a colt by Greatest Honour this season. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $31,500. Click for the ...
Sweet Seraphine (Quality Road) sounded the drum late and scored her first black-type in the Wilton Stakes at the Big A on Sunday afternoon.
As a juvenile, the filly debuted in third at Ellis Park in early August before heading to the sidelines. The bay came off the bench to don cap and gown by a nose at Churchill Downs May 24.
The 6-5 choice here took an awkward step at the start which put her several lengths off the speed up the backstretch. Chasing the pace into the far turn, you could surmise there was just too much work to do for the 3-year-old as a trio, which included Dry Powder (Gun Runner), vied for the lead. Unwilling to quit, Sweet Seraphine came with a giant run down the center of the course and she nailed Dry...
GSW & GISP May Day Ready (Tapit) is reportedly being pointed toward a start in the GI Belmont Oaks Invitational during the July 4 Racing Festival at Saratoga.
The GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf runner-up took her show on the road after that 2024 seasonal highlight, and tried her luck in the G1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies in Kyoto, Japan as a cap for her 2-year-old season. While she finished 13th then, she returned to the States and made her '25 bow in the off-turf GIII Wonder Again Stakes June 7. MGSW Nitrogen (Medaglia d'Oro) ran off the screen by 17 lengths with only two others still in the race–including May Day Ready–after the rest scratched out, but trainer Joe Lee says that the choice to keep her in had been...
Endo Botti's Klaynn completed a Classic double with her wide-margin victory in Sunday's G2 Oaks d'Italia Tattersalls at San Siro Racecourse, running her 12 rivals into the ground with a dominant front-running performance.
Cristian Demuro, who was riding the daughter of Make Believe for the first time, charted a wide course throughout and gradually increased the tempo in the straight, with his mount responding generously as she lengthened clear in the closing stages. At the line she had seven lengths to spare over her closest pursuer, Pink Black (National Defense), who edged out Mystery Of Love (Ten Sovereigns) by a short head in the battle for the runner-up spot.
Successful in April's G3 Premio Regina Elena (Italian 1,000 Guineas), Klaynn then forfeited her unbeaten record when finishing a valiant fourth in the G2 Derby Italiano won by Molveno (Almanzor), before being bought privately by Teruya Yoshida ahead of Sunday...
