#Francois Rohaut

The HK$18.5 million Longines Hong Kong Sprint has fast become a global sprint championship race, with horses lining up regularly from many of racing's leading jurisdictions to determine which horse is quickest. Originally run over the straight 1000m course as a Listed race, Hong Kong legend Fairy King Prawn won the first edition in 1999. The…

The French racing community collectively love Ascot like no other fixture outside their own borders and will be on the royal racecourse in force to prove it this week. In fact the powers that be at France Galop are so enamoured of the meeting that they schedule nothing above Listed status on the Flat in opposition, allowing everyone to focus on the…

Hold your bets! Overnight rain has turned the ground soft at Ascot and further downpours could make things even muddier come race time. Forget top-of-the-ground horses: here are four horses who will benefit from the change in conditions. None who saw Gear Up plough through the mud to win the Group 1 Grand Criterium de Saint-Cloud last autumn will…