#Kia Joorabchian

IT was only after someone'did a job' on football agent Kia Joorabchian that he was inspired to get involved with racing. Known for his work with footballers Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano, Joorabchian has become a leading racing stakeholder through his ownership outfit Amo Racing. However, his life in the sport has not always been quite so…

LONDON, UK-There has been an awful lot of water under the bridge since Goffs UK last convened its London Sale in the royal parks, but somehow the bloodstock market has meanwhile stayed buoyantly afloat. In this country, demand for horses in training has remained a priceless lifeline, and the additional kudos of a Royal Ascot entry for the majority…

Spare a thought for us northerners. The summer heatwave isn't something to celebrate when you're a Yorkshire girl living down south, it's something to tolerate and find shelter from, as you wistfully look at the sweaters neatly folded in drawers and wonder how long it will be before you can get your big coat back out. It's not all bad, though, the…

THINGS are starting to go a bit Pete Tong for AMO Racing. Just last week we revealed the main man behind the operation, Kia Joorabchian, is ready to walk away from the British game. And then a few days afterwards their retained jockey Rossa Ryan announced live on ITV that he was no longer their rider. Now there's never smoke without fire in this…

THIS is the sickening moment jockey Christophe Soumillon pushes rival Rossa Ryan off a horse mid-race. Recent Coral-Eclipse winner Soumillon's moment of madness came as a jockey in Ecuador was given a lifetime ban for doing the exact same. Sky Sports Racing cameras captured in detail the shocking scenes from Saint-Cloud racecourse in France. And it…

Sky Sports Racing's Alex Hammond looks ahead to the start of the Go Racing In Yorkshire Summer Festival, featuring a red-hot card at Ripon on Saturday. Spare a thought for us northerners. The summer heatwave isn't something to celebrate when you're a Yorkshire girl living down south, it's something to tolerate and find shelter from, as you…

Jockey Rossa Ryan reckons the Cazoo St Leger will be tailor-made for Mojo Star as he bids to upset odds-on favourite Hurricane Lane in the final Classic of the Flat season at Doncaster on Saturday. Charlie Appleby-trained Hurricane Lane has never raced beyond a mile and a half so the one mile, six furlongs and 115 yards of Sunday's race will take…

Kyprios (black, white and red) stays on best of all to win a dramatic Gold Cup at Ascot There promised to be drama and high emotion in the Gold Cup and it did not disappoint, with Kyprios crowned the new king of the stayers in a race that left as many questions as it did answers. Youth ultimately conquered experience as Kyprios narrowly defeated…

In her Platinum Jubilee Year, the Queen's odds-on favourite Reach For The Moon was beaten by Claymore in the Hampton Court Stakes. Dettori was also a runner-up on Saga, as Thesis won the Britannia Stakes. And he had a nightmare passage as Stradivarius was denied a record-equalling fourth Gold Cup. The 13-8 favourite Kyprios, ridden by Ryan Moore…

The master of Ballydoyle was represented by 4/7 favourite Adelaide River who set out to make all under Wayne Lordan. By the two furlong pole he had every rival beaten bar the winner who was racing for the first time since the Chesham at Royal Ascot. Colin Keane had him alongside the leader at the furlong pole and passed him soon after, the son of…