Favourite Fancy Foundations wins for Elliott at SligoTrainer was suspended in March over photo with dead horseFor the first time since early March, a Gordon Elliott runner walked into a winner’s enclosure at Sligo on Wednesday as the Grand National-win…
Altior, four-times Cheltenham Festival winner, is retired at age of 11
Altior won 19 consecutive races from 2015 to 2019Owners retire him while he is still fit and healthyAltior, one of the most prolific and popular jumps horses of recent decades, will not race again after his owners decided to retire him “while still at …
Talking Horses: Save A Forest good value to upset Frankie Dettori
The Italian’s mount Free Wind should start favourite, but Roger Varian’s filly is worth interest at around 11-2 at DoncasterThe Frankie effect should ensure that Free Wind sets off as favourite for the Group Two Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster on Thursda…
Emaraaty Ana to be aimed at Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint after Haydock win
Kevin Ryan horse holds off favourite Starman to win Sprint CupRyan: ‘I think he’s tailor-made for the Breeders’ Cup this year’A tilt at the Breeders’ Cup looms large for Emaraaty Ana after justifying Kevin Ryan’s confidence with victory in a pulsating …
Talking Horses: Starman fancied after rivals fall on hard times at Haydock
Ed Walker’s four-year-old is unbeaten on good ground or faster and should have enough to see off Creative ForceIt is eight years since the word “soft” failed to appear in the going description at Haydock on Sprint Cup day, so the connections of Starman…
Ellie Simmonds ready to end career in Paralympics after freestyle fifth place
Simmonds reinstated to fifth after initial disqualificationSwimmer Bethany Firth wins gold again in S14 100m backstrokeInspirational to the last, Ellie Simmonds concluded her Paralympic career in Tokyo on Thursday without a ninth medal to add to her ha…
Kearney and Dunn take swimming silver as ParalympicsGB go close in pool
Tully Kearney beaten in final strokes of 200m freestyle S5Toni Shaw picks up bronze in women’s 400m freestyle S9Tully Kearney and Reece Dunn led the way for ParalympicsGB on the first day in the pool in Tokyo, winning silver medals in the women’s 200m …
Talking Horses: Ilaraab can excel in Ebor of bewildering possibilities
The stable companion of favourite Hamish looks a good bet in the closest thing British Flat racing has to the Grand NationalThe Skybet Ebor Handicap is the closest thing British Flat racing has to the Grand National – a race for the punters as the clim…
Talking Horses: Mohaafeth can capture the Juddmonte International
The absence of St Mark’s Basilica left the Ebor meeting’s showpiece an open race and William Haggas’s colt can profitThe late scratching of St Mark’s Basilica from the Juddmonte International Stakes at York on Wednesday does at least make for an open r…
Talking Horses: Injury to St Mark’s Basilica takes shine off Ebor meeting
Eclipse winner sustained a cut to a leg and will not race, with Love coming in as a replacement and Mishriff the new favouriteThe Juddmonte International Stakes at York was named the best race in the world for the first time in 2020, as Ghaiyyath beat …