Seventh Heaven and Found give Aidan O’Brien one-two in Yorkshire Oaks
• Filly & Mare Turf at Breeders’ Cup a possible plan for the winner• O’Brien gets ever closer to winning £6m in one seasonAidan O’Brien took another significant step towards becoming the first...
View ArticleHeartbreak City brings joy for Adam McNamara in York’s Ebor Handicap
• Teenager helps land big race for Tony Martin’s stable and New York owners• William Buick completes treble on Scottish, Wall Of Fire and Blue PointCheltenham came to Yorkshire via Ireland and New York...
View ArticleTalking Horses: Benbatl looks better King George bet than hot favourite...
The double Oaks winner is fancied to land another Group One success at Ascot but she is at a new level and an each-way bet on Benbatl offers more appealThe market on the King George VI & Queen...
View ArticleFrankie Dettori’s shoulder injury led to Shutter Speed’s stutter, says trainer
• John Gosden says jockey’s pain affected finish in French Oaks• Filly at 10-1 for Juddmonte International at York on WednesdayFrankie Dettori’s shoulder injury was partly the cause of a disappointing...
View ArticleTalking Horses: Best bets on Juddmonte International day at York
Ulysses looks the most likely winner in today’s big race but could Frankie try to nick it from the front? Plus a 25-1 shot in the openerWell, hooray! We have slogged our way through the valley twixt...
View ArticleMichael Stoute targets Breeders’ Cup Turf with late developer Ulysses
• Four-year-old beat Churchill and Barney Roy to win International Stakes• Cracksman looks the part in winning Great Voltigeur Stakes at YorkIt is almost a decade since Sir Michael Stoute won the last...
View ArticleTalking Horses: Enable looks able in the Yorkshire Oaks
The best bets and latest news from day two at the Ebor Festival, where there remains cut in the ground after the recent wet weatherThe weather forecast is distinctly better for York over the next...
View ArticleFrankie Dettori and Enable stroll to Yorkshire Oaks win and look to Arc
• John Gosden’s 1-4 favourite destroys her rivals in York• Four Group One wins hint at big chance at ChantillyFive lengths, five-and-a-half, four-and-a-half and now another five: Enable’s stroll...
View ArticleFrankie Dettori ‘dazed’ after celebrating photo-finish defeat at Ebor meeting
• Jockey punches air in delight after dramatic Nunthorpe Stakes at York• Marsha awarded victory by smallest of margins to leave Italian red-facedFrankie Dettori is famous for his celebrations but his...
View ArticleNakeeta finally takes big prize with Ebor handicap victory at York
• Apprentice Callum Rodriguez guides gelding home late• ‘He’s been unlucky but now he’s had his big day,’ says trainerAfter a string of near misses in big handicaps that must have left his owners...
View ArticleMartyn Meade’s Chilean in line for Dante after divine success in Paris
• Meade says of Classic hope: ‘He won in style of a very good horse’• Ralph Beckett’s Air Pilot lifts Prix d’Harcourt at ParisLongchampChilean, who finished sixth behind the 2,000 Guineas favourite...
View ArticleHarry Angel runs back into winning form at York and prepares for Royal Ascot
• Clive Cox’s colt still around 3-1 for Diamond Jubilee Stakes • Give and Take’s York win starts talk of Oaks challengeHarry Angel brushed aside one quirk on his record at York on Wednesday when he...
View ArticleTalking Horses: best bets for day one of York's Ebor meeting
Cross Counter is surely the one to be with in the Voltigeur, while Poet’s Word can land a hot-looking Juddmonte InternationalMuch as I love taking a swing at a big-priced runner, the bet that appeals...
View ArticleOisin Murphy rides Roaring Lion to victory in Juddmonte International
• Favourite Poet’s Word beaten by three and a quarter lengths• Win ‘wasn’t a fluke’, says Roaring Lion’s trainer, John GosdenAt the start of July Oisin Murphy was still looking for his first win in a...
View ArticleGraham Lee and Alpha Delphini edge Mabs Cross to win Nunthorpe Stakes
• Former Grand National winner adds Group One dash on the Flat • Favourite Battaash drops out of contention with a furlong to goThis always promised to be a day of extremes with a stayers’ race and a...
View ArticleToo Darn Hot out of Derby reckoning after Dante defeat to Telecaster
• Beaten favourite now heading for Royal Ascot• Trainer John Gosden had suspected colt was not readyThe betting market for next month’s Derby was transformed in the two and a half minutes it took to...
View ArticleMustajeer holds off challengers to win £1m Ebor for Ger Lyons
• 16-1 shot becomes first to win £1m handicap on Flat in Britain• Red Galileo second, Desert Skyline third, Raymond Tusk fourthThe bookies had the better of the first £1m handicap to be run on the Flat...
View ArticleTalking Horses: York and Goodwood hope to fill empty stands this summer
Racing passed its first major test behind closed doors at Epsom but other tracks are looking at ways to get spectators backA quick scan of the perimeter of Epsom racecourse a couple of minutes before...
View ArticleTalking Horses: Ghaiyyath is worthy favourite as Ebor Festival begins
Charlie Appleby’s five-year-old has come of age this year and looks too strong even for a classy Juddmonte International fieldJust five runners go to post for the Juddmonte International Stakes, the...
View ArticleBattaash battles to Nunthorpe success and four-timer for Jim Crowley at York
Hot favourite made to sweat by outsider Que AmoroHills: ‘I probably think it was the best run of his career’The explosive brilliance which Battaash brought to the Nunthorpe Stakes 12 months ago was...
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