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2019 July
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Mon, Jul 15, 2019For our friends and colleagues Pat Cummings and Joe Kristufek who are involved with Eskenforit known as Kenny.
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Sun, Jul 14, 2019On Bastille Day there's a chance that the raiders may rain on France's parade.
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Sun, Jul 14, 2019Admittedly he saddled four of the six runners but it was still a good way to win his fifth win in the race.
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Sat, Jul 13, 2019One Master may have been favourite in the Falmouth but it was Sir Michael Stoute who gave a master class.
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Thu, Jul 11, 2019This meeting fills a spot between Royal Ascot and Goodwood and is very popular.
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Sun, Jul 07, 2019With John Size on 74 winners and John Moore on 72 and only a week to go this is the excitement at Sha Tin on Sunday.
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Sat, Jul 06, 2019These are both invitational races with the Oaks giving a free berth to the winner of the Diana Trial at Hoppegarten.
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Wed, Jul 03, 2019There was a boilover in the feature in Monday's Reunification Cup..
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Mon, Jul 01, 2019
Representing Japan at this event in Bro, Sweden, she rode two winners and a second in the four-race competition.
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Mon, Jul 01, 2019The winner of the Queen's Plate at Woodbine, One Bad Boy, deserves a name change.
2019 June
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Sun, Jun 30, 2019Sovereign, 33/1, wins the Irish Derby by 6 lengths.
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Sat, Jun 29, 2019Will this be a re-run of the Epsom version or will there be a surprise?
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Mon, Jun 24, 2019The Premier Cup and the Premier Plate both gave the punters a happy end to the group races for the 2018/19 season.
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Mon, Jun 24, 2019She is only the fourth female to win the race but the boys held no fears for Lys Gracieux who received a brilliant ride from Aussie jockey Damien Lane.
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Sun, Jun 23, 2019It started off with rain and then gradually the sun appeared, the ground quickened and it finished with a record-breaking win.
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Wed, Jun 19, 2019There are four group races starting with the Queen Mary G2 over 1000m with a field of 27 2yo fillies!
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Mon, Jun 17, 2019Channel, (no relation to Channel Maker), a bay filly by Nathaniel, won the Prix de Diane by a head from Commes.
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Mon, Jun 17, 2019Joao Moreira got his 800th Hong Kong winner and rode a treble at Sha Tin on Sunday.
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Sun, Jun 09, 2019On what was otherwise a very ordinary day of racing at Sha Tin, Zac Purton secured his 1000th winner!
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Fri, Jun 07, 2019There may not be a Triple Crown winner this year but Belmont is putting on a huge program of racing.
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Mon, Jun 03, 2019In riding his second 6-timer in just over a week Zac Purton has been breaking all sorts of records.
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Mon, Jun 03, 2019This was a fourth Derby win for J-C Rouget who unfortunately had to watch from a hospital bed and a second for jockey Cristian Demuro.
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Sun, Jun 02, 2019There aren't any foreign horses in this race for a change but it doesn't seem to matter as all eye will be on Almond Eye.
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Sun, Jun 02, 2019He's running in the G3 Lion Rock at Sha Tin Sunday and as a 3yo John Size his trainer hopes he will head to next season's Derby.
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Sun, Jun 02, 2019There’s also three G2s and a G3 in a very rich afternoon of racing.
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Sat, Jun 01, 2019While the Oaks had several runners with floral names although the winner had a geographic name, the Derby features a selection of geographic names.
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Sat, Jun 01, 2019Given a top ride by Frankie Dettori, the John Gosden trained Anapurna won a tough battle with Pink Dogwood to win the fillies’ crown.
2019 May
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Mon, May 27, 2019The fact that it was supposed to be a match race between Too Darn Hot and Magna Grecia was totally ignored by Charlie Hills’s Phoenix of Spain.
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Mon, May 27, 2019One would be hard placed to name a jockey riding better than Zac Purton these days as he rode an impressive 6-timer at Sha Tin on Sunday including the G1 Champions & Chater.
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Sun, May 26, 2019After a successful raiding expedition last week the Brits are at it again.
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Sat, May 25, 2019With its new grandstand still being tweaked, the big weekend will be a serious test for it as well as the tests for the horses.
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Sat, May 25, 2019It looks like it will be a lovely sunny day in Tokyo for the running of the G1 Japanese Derby over the 2400m Fuchu track.
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Mon, May 20, 2019At Tokyo on Sunday the undefeated Loves Only You set a new race record as she flew up the outside to grab the race in the last 100m.
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Mon, May 20, 2019War Of Will proved he did have the will to win given a clear run and provided his rider, trainer and owner with their first Triple Crown race winner.
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Mon, May 20, 2019The German 2000 Guineas or Mehl-Mulhens Rennen G2 for 3yo colts and fillies has seen a successful result for the raiders.
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Sun, May 19, 2019Sir Michael Stoute captured the two feature races at Newbury on Saturday and a Listed to make the treble.
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Sat, May 18, 2019Champion's Way will try to make it six wins in a season, a very rare feat in Hong Kong.
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Fri, May 17, 2019Race 6 is a Class 1 over the 1100m polytrack with a number of runners resuming.
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Fri, May 17, 2019This may be a rerun of the 2018 version as Stradivarius who won that edition looks likely to repeat here.
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Thu, May 16, 2019Lah Ti Dar and her full but younger brother will go for a rare double in the G2 features at York on Thursday.
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Mon, May 13, 2019Andre Fabre’s Persian King may not yet have had his coronation but he’s moving towards it rapidly with his win at Longchamp on Sunday.
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Mon, May 13, 2019Good Standing provided jockey Zac Purton with the third leg of a treble and John Moore his 6th Trophy.
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Mon, May 13, 2019The “Berlin Marathon” at Hoppergarten on Sunday saw a big upset when Raa Atoll won.
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Mon, May 13, 2019The Aussie jockey who is riding under a temporary licence in Japan has had a weekend to remember.
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Sun, May 12, 2019Things start to get into gear with the running of the Prix St Georges, a G3 for 3yo over the 1000m. The going is supposed to be very soft so we shall see what happens in this race as a bit of an indicator for the two G1s.
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Mon, May 06, 2019Prior to the race Aidan O'Brien's second runner Hermosa (Spanish for beautiful) was on 20/1 and went in as our roughie.
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Mon, May 06, 2019It must be that the "Ho Ho" has people thinking of Christmas as after winning the QM on Sunday he's having a break.
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Mon, May 06, 2019It's a bank holiday Monday or equivalent in many countries and in Ireland we have a nice program at the Curragh.
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Sun, May 05, 2019The 2000 Guineas at Newmarket was a race where there was a great advantage to horses running up the stand side.
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Sat, May 04, 2019The going is described as good to firm and it’s a mix weather-wise between sun and showers.
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Sat, May 04, 2019Under a brilliant ride from Jose Ortiz, the Tom Amoss trained Serengeti Empress crossed from gate 13 to take up the lead and stayed there.
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Sat, May 04, 2019It’s a great day of racing with some very competitive races on the undercard.
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Fri, May 03, 2019Punchestown on Thursday saw our old friend Unowhatimeanharry 16/1 take out the gruelling race by 3 lengths from Bacardys who was ridden by PW Mullins while Paul Townend switched to the stablemate Bapaume was a head away in third. Aux Ptits Soins finished fifth in a field of 10.
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Fri, May 03, 2019A few years ago Sophie Doyle, sister of James, chose to move to the US from the UK in search of more opportunities.
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Thu, May 02, 201912 times Irish Champion Jockey Ruby Walsh dismounted from winning the Punchestown Gold Cup on Kemboy and announced "That's it".
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Wed, May 01, 2019Day 2 of the Punchestown Festival will see the clash between Al Boum Photo and Kemboy in the Gold Cup Chase Gr 1.
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Wed, May 01, 2019Starting off a very busy racing month we go to St Cloud for the first three group races of the month.
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Wed, May 01, 2019There are a number of races branded as "trials" for the Royal Ascot versions to come with the two G3s the most interesting.
2019 April
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Tue, Apr 30, 2019
The three International G1 contests provided plenty of interest in a day where the sun came through the clouds the racing proved mostly very competitive.
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Mon, Apr 29, 2019There was a very close battle down the straight especially in the last 200 metres between Fierement and Glory Vase.
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Mon, Apr 29, 2019A bit of an upset at Longchamp on Sunday when Waldgeist got the better of the odds-on favourite Ghalyyath.
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Sun, Apr 28, 2019Japanese runner Win Bright was the surprise winner of the QEII Cup at Sha Tin with the elegant grey beating the favourite Exultant.
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Sun, Apr 28, 2019
There's been a few showers around and it is currently a bit misty and cloudy but the day will hopefully improve weather-wise and there hasn't been too much water on the track.
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Wed, Apr 24, 2019And gets the trifecta to boot when Burrows Saint scored a good win over his stablemate Isleofhopendreams 20/1.
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Wed, Apr 24, 2019With some news from Monday and a hot tip for tonight's Happy Valley card.
