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We are deep inside the final furlong of 2022. I'm hoping plenty of you will be powering to the finishing post hard on the bridle, rather than wearily struggling to the line or having pulled up sometime during the summer heatwave. That was then, this is now. We go again in 2023, and what a momentous year it promises to be. Here are ten reasons why…

The first of two days of top class horse racing action takes place at Leopardstown this afternoon as Irish Champions Weekend kicks off. The eight-race card features two Group 1s, two Group 2s, one Group 3, a listed race and two incredibly competitive handicaps. Just seven line up in the Irish Champion Stakes, but it is a high class field, as you…

Sir Michael Stoute: trainer of Derby favourite Desert Crown With the first two Classics completed, and after another busy week of action, including trials at York, here are ten quotes that could give us clues. . . I was very pleased. He was impressive in his maiden and we got behind schedule. We had to do what we did and he didn't let me down, he…

Siskin: won the 2020 Irish 2000 Guineas, but who will score at the Curragh on Saturday? Your guide to Saturday's Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh, the first Classic of the season in Ireland.

Day Two of the Irish Champions Weekend features two more Breeders' Cup Challenge'Win and You're In' race, when Nunthorpe Stakes heroine Highfield Princess heads a big field of 19 as she heads for as G1 hat-trick in the Flying Five. Sponsored by Dubai's Al Basti Equiworld, the sprint is the first of four successive G1 races at the Curragh on…

Drop The Anchor: wins the November Handicap under a drive from Niall McCullagh Sunday: Naas What a difference a day made for trainer Pat Fahy, who saved his biggest winner of the Flat season for the final card as Drop The Anchor caused a 16-1 upset in the Colm White Bookmaker November Handicap. JP McManus's dual-purpose eight-year-old showed a…

Ger Lyons' Dr Zempf justified 11/10 favouritism in the Ballylinch Stud "Red Rocks" 2000 Guineas Trial Stakes at Leopardstown on Saturday. The son of Dark Angel was runner-up in the Group One Phoenix Stakes as a juvenile and he went some way to proving he'd trained on with a battling win in the seven-furlong contest under Colin Keane. Well…

There are five race meetings scheduled across the UK and Ireland on Tuesday, including Listed action at Galway. Flat racing dominates the day with cards at Leicester (1.00-5.00pm), Catterick (1.45-5.35), Goodwood (1.55-5.20) and Galway (4.05-7.40). The lone National Hunt card comes from Hexham (4.17-7.25). Tuesday's nap made a sparkling debut for…

There's nothing quite like the Galway Races and it would be fitting if Dermot Weld, the'King of Ballybrit', kicked things off in style today. oltor is back for more under Finian Maguire - who bids for a sensational hat-trick - in the Connacht Hotel Handicap having prevailed 12 months ago, but can he fend off a battalion from Willie Mullins? Let the…

The ITV Racing team are set for a big weekend, with Saturday's programme of four races from Ascot, three from Newmarket and one from Redcar serving as a very tasty appetiser for Sunday's broadcast from Arc day at Longchamp. The Group 1 Royal Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket gets top billing on Saturday, when the action is on ITV4…

Saffron Beach: winner of the 2021 Sun Chariot Jane Chapple-Hyam believes that her star filly Saffron Beach has "improved again" as she prepares to defend her Royal Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes (2.42) crown at Newmarket on Saturday. The four-year-old provided Chapple-Hyam with her first Group 1 winner in the £266875 contest last year under William…

Frankie Dettori will be back at Bellewstown today, for the inaugural running of the Barney Curley Charity Cup, in aid of DAFA. The Italian conquered the County Meath track when winning on Trueba for Johnny Murtagh. But, today, he'll return to the Hill of Crockafotha in the role of team-captain for the two-race challenge against a team captained by…

There are six race meetings across the UK and Ireland on Wednesday, including the inaugural Barney Curley Charity Cup at Bellewstown where Willie Mullins and Frankie Dettori are team captains. The action begins at Nottingham (1.00-4.30pm), which is one of five Flat cards along with Catterick (1.44-5.09), Bellewstown (2.00-5.25), Kempton (5.00-8.30)…

Richard Hannon has always been strongest with his two-year-olds and that statistic will play right into his hands on Saturday at Newmarket's Cambridgeshire meeting. Six of the seven races on offer are exclusive to juveniles and Hannon sends four to contest the fixture, headlined by Group 1 hopefuls Trillium in the Juddmonte Cheveley Park Stakes…

GO Big on the O'Brien three-year-old in the opener. A competitive sprint handicap, but Charles O'Brien's BIG GOSSEY is a youngster on his way up and he must have a few more races in him off his current mark after only two handicaps starts. Sent here for both starts this season, he won his handicap debut quite snugly from a bunch of subsequent…

channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage This Monday 19 September, the horse racing NAP of the Day, according to SportsLens experts, is CORALILLO. She contests a Listed race at Fairyhouse this afternoon and appeals at decent 13/8 odds here. The horse racing result last time out for the Eddie and Patrick Harty-trained Coralillo saw their…

Our Juvenile Watch columnist, Ross Millar, is intrigued by what Aidan O'Brien said, and didn't say, about a Coolmore stallion over the weekend, plus nominates his star of the week and shares his thoughts on the Mill Reef Stakes. When trying to be successful as a punter it pays to pay attention to what is being said, and sometimes what is not being…

It's nearly time for, which is the jewel in the crown of flat racing and here are three match-ups that could light up the week. If the ball had hopped a little more kindly for Coroebus last season, he would still be unbeaten. After easily landing a novice stakes at Newmarket's July Course last August on his racecourse debut, the Godolphin colt was…

Irish Champion Stakes, Leopardstown, Saturday 10 September Luxembourg had been only workmanlike when winning the Royal Whip Stakes by a neck at the Curragh last month, but, having met with a setback after finishing third in the 2000 Guineas, he was entitled to come on for that outing and he duly took a big step forward to win a strong edition of…

Chris Hayes celebrates after winning the Moyglare Stud Stakes on Tahiyra during day two of the Longines Irish Champions Weekend at The Curragh Racecourse in Kildare. PIC: Sportsfile THERE was success for Limerick jockeys across the Longines Irish Champions weekend. DAY ONE LEOPARDSTOWN Paddy Twomey's remarkable season hit another high as 16/1 shot…