The Jessica Harrington-trained six year old trailed home last in the Dubai Gold Cup, but made amends and bounced back to something more like his best under Colm O’Donoghue, beating Time To Study and Desert Skyline into second and third respectively. Torcedor finished second to Order Of St George in the Long Distance Cup on
US Navy Flag won the day’s big race, the Dewhurst Stakes, on day 2 of the Future Champions Festival at Newmarket to leave trainer Aidan O’Brien one win away from the record Group One tally in a year. Ridden by Ryan Moore, the horse led a 1-2-3-4 of O’Brien’s horses, heading home stablemate Mendelssohn, with
It’s fair to say Yanworth might not be here but for Unowhatimeanharry’s emergence as an overwhelming favourite for the Sun Bet Stayers’ Hurdle, as last year’s festival second to Yorkhill was over 2m5f and a reappearance 2m3f win at Ascot had JP McManus and his team leaning towards the longer race. However, dropped back to
MANY CLOUDS, the 2015 Grand National winner, collapsed and died on Saturday moments after inflicting a first defeat over fences on Gold Cup favourite Thistlecrack leaving Cheltenham in a state of shock. Seconds earlier the star of the Oliver Sherwood stable had produced one of his greatest performances as he battled back from the last
The world of horse racing is waking up this morning to the sad passing of one of their bravest compatriots, jockey John Thomas “JT” McNamara, aged 41. The Limerick rider passed away overnight following a three-year battle against catastrophic injuries he sustained in a fall at the Cheltenham Festival in 2013. McNamara, a native of
Harzand, ridden by Irish jockey Pat Smullen, held off favourite US Army Ranger, to win the Epsom Derby on Saturday. US Army Ranger appeared to be poised for victory with a well-timed burst but never got level with Dermot Weld-trained Harzand who stretched away to triumph in the world-famous flat race. “I spotted the white
33-1 shot Rule The World has won the Grand National ridden by 19-year-old David Mullins at a saturated Aintree. “What a great run, he jumped phenomenally well,” said jockey Mullins. “Sadly there is only one place to be, I hate being second, I am just so proud of the horse.” Rule The World won the
BRYAN COOPER, the main rider for owners Gigginstown House Stud, has revealed that he will ride Don Cossack rather than Don Poli in the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday. Cooper revealed his decision to Channel 4 after completing a final piece of work aboard the Gordon Elliott-trained gelding, who had assumed clear favouritism for
RUBY WALSH has been urged to ride Djakadam in Friday’s Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup by former champion jockey Sir Anthony McCoy, who says stablemate Vautour has too many questions still to answer. Walsh was aboard Djakadam when the now seven-year-old finished second to Coneygree in last year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup, but says he will wait
Olympic cycling champion Victoria Pendleton has confirmed her participation at this year’s Cheltenham Festival. The two-time gold medallist only switched to horse racing last year, a move that prompted sweeping criticism with seven-times Champion jump jockey John Francome describing her as an “accident waiting to happen”. The Englishwoman was unseated on her first ride over
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