#Night Of Thunder

From Hurricane Fly's fourth consecutive Irish Champion Hurdle victory to The New One brushing aside the opposition in Cheltenham's International Hurdle, it has been an exciting year of racing. As 2014 nears its conclusion racing correspondent Marcus Townend reviews the past 12 months of racing, and picks his best race of each month. JANUARY Paul…

It's the big day of Royal Ascot week and Frankie Dettori's mount Stradivarius bids to win a third Gold Cup at 3.35pm. Follow for live updates, tips and reaction History could be made at Royal Ascot, when Stradivarius races for a third Gold Cup. Only two horses have managed it before, Sagaro the first to complete the hat-trick from 1975 to…

MOTHER EARTH is fancied to win the Group 1 Coronation Stakes (4.20) at Royal Ascot on Friday The Aidan O'Brien-trained filly took the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket in May and can ass this race to her CV. Second in the French equivalent, she sets the standard for her 12 rivals to aim at. Newsboy's top tips for day four.. Newsboy's 1-2-3 1 HELLO YOU 2…

Commissioning (navy) streaks away from her rivals in the Rockfel Stakes at Newmarket Commissioning surged into contention for next year's Qipco 1000 Guineas with an impressive performance to maintain her unbeaten record, becoming the next potential star for trainers John and Thady Gosden in the process. However, far from overflowing with…

Graham Dench runs the rule over the three-year-olds currently taking high rank in calculations for the Cazoo-sponsored Derby, Europe's most prestigious Classic at Epsom on Saturday June 3, 2023. GB: Like it or not, there is an ever increasing trend for winners of the Derby to come from just a handful of what might be termed'super stables', and if…

The most anticipated meeting of the Flat racing season gets underway on Tuesday for the first of five days of Royal Ascot 2014. Quality races are guaranteed as the Queen Anne Stakes starts things off, before the Queen Alexandra Stakes eventually closes out proceedings on Saturday afternoon. There is at least one Group 1 race on each day of the…

Fallon junior only started riding aged 18 and within three years has secured a Group One win and a big retainer. On Saturday, he seeks more success on Oxted at Ascot's British Champions Day. "He's very dedicated. I wish I'd the same mentality, I'd probably still be riding," says Kieren, 55, whose rollercoaster career ended in 2016. Cieren, who grew…

It is nearly ten years since Frankel put up the best performance in Timeform's history when he beat Excelebration by 11 lengths in the 2012 Queen Anne Stakes, earning a rating of 147. Unsurprisingly, no horse since has come close to reaching that lofty figure. In fact, only a dozen other horses have reached the 140 benchmark since Timeform was…

Good Morning Bloodstock is Martin Stevens' daily morning email and presented online as a sample. Here he reflects on the sudden and way too premature death of the Classic heroine Billesdon Brook, who leaves behind just the one foal - All you need do is click on the link above, sign up and then read at your leisure each weekday morning from…

Highfield Princess and Jason Hart claim the Prix Maurice de Gheest on Sunday Victory in the Group 1 Arc Prix Maurice de Gheest was secured with the brilliant execution of not one but two plans. The first piece of foresight was for trainer John Quinn to give Highfield Princess a short break after running an excellent sixth in the Platinum Jubilee…

Harry Allwood kept a close eye on the racing action at Leopardstown and the Curragh over the weekend and selects five horses who are worth adding to your Racing TV tracker. The 2020 Longines Irish Champions Weekend certainly did not disappoint, and we were treated to some stunning performances from some equine stars, as well as some potential…

channel to stay up to date on the latest in marketing The 1m 4f November Handicap at Doncaster brings the curtain down on the British Flat turf horse racing season. It's one of the big betting races on Saturday, 6 November this year (2:40). A typically wide-open renewal of the middle-distance handicap, sponsored by Virgin Bet, sees many in with…

Speed. Pure, unadulterated acceleration with gears to spare. It's what makes Usain Bolt a track icon and its pursuit fuels the multi-million pound F1 circuit. It was the also the underlying theme of a memorable opening day at the biggest Flat meeting of the season. Twice Richard Hughes experienced that wind in the hair feeling most of us can only…

Pocket The Packet didn't offer much in three novice events but, having been gelded and given a four-month break, he showed much-improved form to make a successful handicap debut here last month, justifying support in the process. He had to dig deep to edge ahead close home in that six-furlong handicap but, off a 5 lb higher mark, he ran out a much…

2022-08-29Tuesday's Carlisle best bets and racing tips: Bouncing Bobby can take advantage It's'Steak Night' at Carlisle on Tuesday evening, so the hardest pick of the night will have nothing to do with horse tips, it'll be what sauce to accompany your meat - unless you like your steak'well done'...you philistines can pick your own horses. First a…

With every thoroughbred auction breaking their own previous record breaking results, focus now turns to the stallion fees for 2023. Where is the value, if any and which big names are jumping up or down? Let's find out. One of the most highly anticipated rosters, the Coolmore fees were announced this week and with it a fee for recently crowned…

The world's top-rated sprinter, Battaash, leads the Royal Ascot charge this week for Shadwell at the iconic meeting, headlining the Group 1 King's Stand Stakes on Tuesday, a race he won in 2020-one of a leading six victories for the powerhouse operation at last year's global spectacular. The famed blue and white silks of the late His Highness…

Oisin Murphy bounced back from losing a Group 1 in the stewards' room by scooping the top level Coronation Stakes 40 minutes later. His Royal Ascot winner Alcohol Free (11-2) was fifth in the QIPCO 1000 Guineas on her latest start, but was back to her best on a soggy day in Berkshire. Trainer Andrew Balding was celebrating a double after 16-1 shot…

One of the biggest weeks in Flat racing kicks off on Tuesday, with everything bloodstock enthusiasts could wish for including runners by first-season sires and international stallions being represented. We take a look at some of the potential bloodstock angles that could pop up at the royal meeting. There would be no bigger cheer this week than a…

Solow was the first winner at the 2015 Royal Ascot meeting, taking victory in the Queen Anne Stakes. The two other hotly anticipated races were the King's Stand Stakes and the St. James' Palace Stakes, won by outsider Goldream and pre-race favourite Gleneagles, respectively. Jockey Ryan Moore enjoyed a wonderful start to the meeting, picking up a…

Racing TV's Tom Bull provides his verdict on the 15 contenders in Saturday's QIPCO 2000 Guineas plus predicts the 1-2-3 for the first Classic of the season, live on Racing TV. By Tom Bull A winter of expectation and anticipation comes to an end with the arrival of the first Classic of the season on Saturday, the QIPCO 2000 Guineas. The pendulum of…

Royal Ascot week is upon us, with thousands of people descending on the Ascot racecourse to witness Europe's oldest and most storied horse racing event. Sometimes considered to be more of a social event, the Royal Ascot brings the finest horses in British flat horse racing together for a week of non-stop action in the shadow of Windsor Castle. With…

Lola Showgirl and Tom Marquand make all to win the Chartwell Fillies' Stakes Saturday: Lingfield Lola Showgirl booked her spot in the paddocks for 2023 when landing her biggest career win in the Group 3 SBK Chartwell Fillies Stakes. The 11-1 chance is gun barrel grey in colour and and fired up the stands rail herself to make nearly all in game…

It will soon be the turn of the Dubai World Cup to take centre stage on the international racing scene and the recent Saudi Cup meeting at Riyadh and the carnival at Meydan, highlighted by Super Saturday, offered plenty of punting clues for the big day on March 26 The brilliant US-trained Life Is Good heads the Dubai World Cup market, but speed is…

The five-year-old mare, winner of her last three runs at Group One level, will bid to back up her latest impressive success in the Flying Five at the Curragh when she heads to the $1million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint in Kentucky. The John Fairley-owned daughter of Night Of Thunder started her remarkable winning spree on All-Weather Championships…

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2 Queen Catrine (J P Spencer) 14-1 3 Wee Jean (William Twiston-Davies) 16-1 4 Graceful Grit (C P Lemaire) 25-1 24 ran Big question: Can Muteela make all the running? That's what she'd done for her last two wins and this lightly raced filly may not respond well to more restrained tactics in the toughest race she has ever faced. But leading from…

Hukum winning the Coronation | PA Media By Shadwell's homebred 5-year-old entire Hukum (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}-Aghareed, by Kingmambo) struck four times at Group 3 level in 2020 and 2021 before annexing Meydan's Mar. 5 G2 Dubai City of Gold and went postward for his European return in Friday's G1 Dahlbury Coronation Cup at Epsom coming back off…