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Horse racing is one of the few sports that truly spans the globe. From the thundering turf of Ascot to the sandy tracks of Dubai and the iconic courses of Kentucky and Melbourne, the sport offers fans and bettors a year-round calendar of high-stakes competition....

If the August Bank Holiday announces the end of summer, the following day can often be something of an anticlimax. A Tim Easterby double and a horse named named Mark's Choice did their best to rebut the allegation. Despite the proximity to Sheriff Hutton, Ripon was...

Unseasonably fine August weather brought a tremendous crowd to the Garden Racecourse for the Bank Holiday fixture, the first of two days this week. There were long queues to get into the racecourse off the main road from spectators less familiar with Ripon, for which...

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...