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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…

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…

Glorious Goodwood is one of the highlights of the summer sporting calendar and has produced some of the great horse racing performances over the years. If you have never watched the festival before, here are some of the must-see races at this year's edition. The festival gets underway on Tuesday with six races on the schedule. With the…

Saturday brings the fifth and final day at Royal Ascot, and the ground will be very testing after all the rain that fell after racing on Thursday. 2.30 CHESHAM STAKES - MASEKELA The longest juvenile race of the week will take some getting for these youngsters over the stiff seven furlongs. Two years ago it was Godolphin's Pinatubo who beat…

DASHING WILLOUGHBY: Followed up his Royal Ascot win with a sound run behind Communique in the Princess Of Wales's Tattersalls Stakes at Newmarket (had run of the race from the front) but made little impact in the Qatar Goodwood Cup next time. Strong stayer but his best form is with some cut and unless (for the second week running) I'm reading the…

Starman will take on 13 rivals as he bids for a first Group One victory in Saturday's Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot. Ed Walker's charge made rapid strides last term, winning his first three starts before meeting with a first defeat when upped in company to the highest level on soft ground on Champions Day. The four-year-old made a…

There is no mistaking the main event of the third day of Royal Ascot as the historic Gold Cup is the traditional highlight of the meeting. Weatherbys Hamilton Stayers' Million winner Stradivarius returns to defend his crown against a high-class field led by last year's Melbourne Cup hero Cross Counter and Derby runner-up Dee Ex Bee. A pair of Group…

Pictures doing the rounds yesterday of sodden racegoers in plastic macs wading through puddles and Panama hats flying off in 40mph gusts may not have been the ideal way for one of the greatest racing festivals on earth to begin - but that certainly does not tell the full story. There was a glorious day of racing to live up to the festival's moniker…

The four-day festival is often earmarked as one of the most prestigious weeks of the British horse racing calendar. Their website describes the St Leger Festival as the world's Oldest Classic. With some world-class horses on show, the festival should prove an entertaining spectacle for horse lovers with some enticing horse racing betting odds. The…