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May 3 (UPI) -- Just hours before Medina Spirit wired the Kentucky Derby, Poetic Flair won a nip-and-tuck victory in the first of the British Classics, highlighting a big weekend of international horse racing action. That Qipco 2000 Guineas showdown keyed a meeting at Newmarket that also included an upset in the Qipco 1000 Guineas, an impressive…

George Boughey: trainer of Queen Of Ipanema Saturday: 3.00 Lingfield talkSPORT Winter Oaks Trial Irish EBF Fillies' Handicap 3yo+ (0-105) | ITV4/Sky Last season's Winter Oaks Trial headlined Southwell's inaugural Tapeta meeting after it ditched the Fibresand and the fillies lining up here will encounter a different type of test. The previous…

It's still just the all-weather meetings for Friday racing tips and they feature selections from Southwell and Kempton. talkSPORT have gone through the race cards and form so you don't have to, with betting tips from all the racing across the UK. Bang On The Bell has shown some good form of late and looks a great price to take on each-way but the…

The red-hot favourite for the William Hill St Leger has raced only four times and never competed as a two-year-old. In some ways that would make him a perfectly normal winner of the world's oldest Classic. Frankie Dettori and John Gosden have been mopping up Group 1 races all year but at the start of 2019 nobody outside of Clarehaven Stables and…

Four race meetings take place in Britain and Ireland on Tuesday, with jumps dominating on a relatively busy afternoon. National Hunt meetings are under way early from Uttoxeter (11.55-3.25), Fontwell (12.35-3.35) and Tramore (12.45-3.45) while the evening all-weather offering is on the Tapeta at Southwell (4.20-8.20). Tuesday's nap is a gelded son…

LUXEMBOURG can win the QIPCO 2000 Guineas Stakes (British Champions Series) (Colts & Fillies) (3.40pm) at Newmarket on Saturday afternoon. While TUESDAY may bring up a Classic double for Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien in the QIPCO 1000 Guineas Stakes (British Champions Series) (Fillies) (3.40pm) back at Headquarters on Sunday. Trainer Charlie…

Three of flat racing's biggest names are set to go head-to-head in this year's Goodwood Cup, as Stradivarius, Kyprios and Trueshan battle it out for glory. Anticipation is building ahead of one of British racing's most prestigious flat races. The Glorious Goodwood Festival is about to get underway and the traditional highlight of day one will be…

Sodashi, a rare white Thoroughbred shown winning the Artemis Stakes earlier in the season, is among the favorites for Sunday's Grade 1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies. Photo courtesy of Japan Racing Association Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Weekend horse racing takes an international turn as Sunday's Longines Hong Kong International Races could see the final runs by…

New London earned quotes for the Cazoo St Leger with a dominant display in the bet365 Handicap at Newmarket. Charlie Appleby's colt was last seen being sent off an odds-on favourite for the Chester Vase 65 days ago, where he ran no sort of race behind Aidan O'Brien's Changingoftheguard, who went on to be fifth in the Derby and won the King Edward…

An excellent and well-subscribed mid-week Lingfield all-weather card is where Declan Rix goes for Wednesday's Race of the Day on Sky Sports Racing. Sadly, we have no National Hunt action on Sky Sports Racing on Wednesday, but we do have a well-supported nine-race card at Lingfield getting underway at 11.25am. The 10-runner contest BetUK's Acca Club…

Since 2010, seven winners of this race had competed at Ascot on their latest start, a statistic that is likely to be enhanced as this year's market is dominated by those exiting the royal meeting. However, they contested several different races over a range of trips, so what has been the ideal prep? In the same 11-year period, horses who were…

On the occasion of my eldest child's 34th birthday, our free offering from the GOLD service is the The Shortlist feature, as it is every Tuesday! The Shortlist is a simple - and usually brief - report highlighting those horses with a largely'green' profile in the Instant Expert Report each day. It covers win or place stats, and can be viewed for…

The Queen will be without a runner at Epsom on Derby day after her final horse was not declared. Just Fine had been due to contest the World Pool Northern Dancer Handicap at the prestigious fixture. The gelding's trainer, Sir Michael Stoute, has the favourite for the feature Cazoo Derby (4.30pm). The big race is the only Flat Classic the Queen has…

Armory (second from left) makes a winning return to action Cox Plate runner-up Armory earned a chance to bid for top-level glory closer to home with a last-to-first win in the Melodi Media Huxley Stakes. The Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup and Prince of Wales's Stakes are options for the four-year-old, who was beaten just a length and a quarter in…

Israr looks to cap a fine season and complete a Doncaster double when he heads the 22 that go to post for the BetGoodwin November Handicap. John and Thady Gosden's charge has been the most consistent of performers this term, winning Newbury's London Gold Cup over 10 furlongs before moving up to a mile and a half. He followed that up with a third in…

Charlie Appleby's With The Moonlight won the Listed Betfair Pretty Polly Stakes with ease and is now a top price of 10/1 with Sky Bet (from a general 40/1) for the Cazoo Oaks. Fresh from saddling his first 2000 Guineas winner with Coroebus on Saturday, Appleby unleashed the Frankel filly in the 10-furlong contest and, despite proving weak in the…

TEMPLEGATE goes through all the top action on ITV on Friday… certain of finding you a few winners. Read on for our man's tips and back a horse by clicking their odds below. NEWMARKET 1.50 WHITEBEAM landed a Haydock handicap after back-to-back wins at Newbury including over this trip. She has scope to improve and can show it. Crystal Caprice has won…

Jumps racing is to the fore on Tuesday, with three of the five meetings across the UK and Ireland being of the National Hunt variety. They race over obstacles at Hereford (1.00-4.30), Punchestown (1.45-5.10) and Huntingdon (2.02-4.57), alongside Leicester (1.55-5.20) on the Flat in the afternoon and evening all-weather racing from Newcastle…

It's Flat racing all the way across five meetings in Britain and Ireland on Monday. They go on the turf at Windsor (1.15-4.50), Killarney (1.20-4.55), Musselburgh (1.35-5.15) and Yarmouth (1.55-5.40), while there is all-weather fare at Wolverhampton (5.00-8.30). Monday's nap will look to further boost Mark Johnston's excellent record this calendar…

Betfair's in-running market has seen some huge sums traded and lost after the impossible somehow became reality. In our series called Room 1.01, we recall some of racing's most expensive defeats. This week's subject: Seyaady Nobody could have predicted the drama that lay ahead as eight juveniles assembled for the opening race of Carlisle's 2017…