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This Saturday, the spotlight returns to Saratoga as the 2025 Sword Dancer Stakes brings together top turf competitors from both sides of the Atlantic. With a $750,000 purse and a direct berth to the Breeders’ Cup Turf, this Grade I race carries more than prestige....

Doubles for trainer David O'Meara, and riders Daniel Tudhope and Jason Hart punctuated a sunny and breezy afternoon at Ripon yesterday as the course enjoyed the twelfth fixture of the 16 day season, with 42 runners across the card. However, the race of the day proved...

Cieran Fallon made the most of a group of small field races at Ripon on Tuesday, scoring a treble to take his career winners to 450. On a cloudy evening, just 36 runners made up the six race card. The evening began with a 4 runner field of impeccably bred 2 year olds...

Elite horse racing has become a global spectacle, but nowhere is its competitive spirit more apparent than in Britain and the United States. Each country hosts a set of classic races, beloved for their tradition and drama, yet their approaches diverge in notable ways....

Billy Loughnane is a youngster making a name for himself in the Flat rankings, touted by some as Champion Jockey material, and the teenager has already marked cards by winning last season's Champion Apprenticeship. He will have done his chances no harm at all in...

It was Ladies Day at Ripon as well as Ascot, and if the hats were slightly more pedestrian than in the royal county of Berkshire, no-one enjoying the warm temperatures seemed to notice. In fact, the feature Ladies Day handicap gave the ladies plenty to grow faint...

Richard Hannon, denied victory in Royal Ascot's opener on Tuesday by a whisker (officially a nose) with Rosallion, made good in the less frenetic surrounds of Yorkshire's Garden racecourse last night when Alex Voikhansky narrowly got home in the feature Lloyd Land...

Yorkshire mourned the loss of Peter Easterby earlier this week, as the 95 year old former trainer finally handed in his licence at the Pearly Gates, more than 70 years on from his first winner. He presided over a period of rich success for Yorkshire trainers,...