Horse Racing Questions & Answers

Todd Pletcher has been around long enough to know that good news and bad news are never that far away from each oth...

The Dubai Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket was already looking to be one of the races of the season but it may now be a...

It takes a lot to keep Frankie Dettori away from a Saturday fixture at his beloved Ascot but the Italian was happy...

The name O’Brien has dominated Ascot’s major Flat fixtures for more than 40 years. In the last decade it has bee...

When the raison d’être is to be the dominant force in world racing anything less than excellent does not count...

The bigger the field, the bigger the certainty is a favourite maxim in racing and the ladbrokes.com Handicap at Asc...

Aidan O’Brien will have to starting looking for another jockey for some of his headline runners in the next fortnig...

Top South African jockey Anton Marcus will captain a powerful Rest of the World team in this year’s Dubai Duty Free...

Johnny Murtagh spent this morning in front of a television. He was watching several video reruns of his victory on...

Wigmore Hall gave apprentice jockey Martin Lane the biggest win of his career when they won the 51st John Smith’s C...

George Baker is not only the tallest jockey in the weighing room, he is also the thinnest and he somehow managed to...

Five winners at this week’s July meeting at Newmarket, which included a clean sweep of the major juvenile contests,...

Retirement plans have been put on hold for Starspangledbanner who remains in training with Aidan O’Brien for the re...

Since Icona won for him in 1989, Sir Michael Stoute has saddled eight losing favourites or joint-favourites for the...

Starspangledbanner, who had left his calling card when he won the Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot last month,...

Richard Hannon completed a sweep of the major two-year-old races at this year’s July meeting at Newmarket when King...

St Moritz had been going close in his three starts this season, including third in the Royal Hunt Cup last month an...

Ever since this bay filly was foaled in February 2008 it was her destiny to maintain her sire’s name. George Washin...

Fleeting Spirit can become the first horse since Right Boy in 1958-59 to win back-to-back renewals of the Group One...

The Group Two Princess of Wales’s sportingbet.com Stakes has produced its fair share of shock winners over the year...