Category: Flat racing

Having laid the ghost of Layfayette’s agonising defeat in the Irish EBF Auction Series Final of 2019 to rest, Noel Meade is backing Sunday’s victor Lady Of Inishfree to continue the trend of Irish EBF Auction Series contestants by graduating to stakes class.   A supporter of the series since its inception in 2015, Meade […]

Jane Chapple Hyam may still be on cloud nine after Saffron Beach provided her with a first Group One in this year’s Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket earlier this month, but she is already mapping out a Classic campaign for Claymore, who she plans to go “big time” with next season. Never one afraid […]

Five-time G1 winner Palace Pier has established a narrow lead in the Cartier Horse of the Year points standings in spite of his neck defeat by Baaeed in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (sponsored by QIPCO). The Cartier Racing Awards were established in 1991 to reward excellence in horseracing. There are eight equine awards – the Cartier Horse Of The Year, the Cartier Older Horse, the Cartier Sprinter, the Cartier Stayer, […]

Space Cowboy dominated from the front in the Watch Racing Free Online At Coral EBF Conditions Stakes at Newcastle today, October 19, the opening Fast-Track Qualifier of this season’s All-Weather Championships. The imposing son of Kodi Bear, from the Newmarket stable of Richard Spencer, is now guaranteed a start in the £150,000 Coral All-Weather Three-Year-Old […]

We have all you need to know about how to enter the best-dresssed lady competition at the Galway races, it’s the big ladies’ day prize for 2021. Widely renowned as ‘Ladies Day’ at the Galway Races, Thursday traditionally combines the very best in horse racing and fashion. Following on from its popularity last Summer, the […]

The 2021 Galway Races will have a prize fund of over €1.8m on offer to the competitors throughout the week of Monday, July 26th to Sunday, August 1st. The fund – a total of €1,817,500 – will be spread across fifty-two events over the course of a week. Each day will have a feature race […]

Archie Watson believes the Darley July Cup at Newmarket’s Moët & Chandon July Festival on Saturday is shaping up to be “the race of the season” as Dragon Symbol and Glen Shiel bid to give him a first victory in the race.   The Lambourn trainer will let his two talented sprinters battle it out against each other in […]

Group One winner and Cazoo Derby contender Mac Swiney returns to action this weekend, just one of the highlights among a programme of 14 fixtures over the next three days – with every race live only on Racing TV. The Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial has proved a pre-eminent trial for the Epsom Classic over a […]

NOTTINGHAM RACEDAY PREVIEW: CHARLIE JOHNSTON, HUGO PALMER, KEVIN RYAN, CHARLIE FELLOWES, DAVID SIMCOCK AND RON HARRIS GIVE THEIR VIEWS ON RUNNERS ON AN INTRIGUING SATURDAY CARD Charlie Johnston is hopeful that the in-form Mountain Brave can build on an impressive victory at Doncaster last week by picking up some black type in the Listed British Stallion Studs […]

Jessica Harrington is doubly represented in the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Blue Wind Stakes at Naas on Saturday as the trainer bids to win a second consecutive renewal of the race. Stable jockey Shane Foley will partner Silence Please, a three-time winner that ran well in defeat behind subsequent Classic winner Even So […]