York Ebor Festival 2022 results from Ladies Day as Alpinista wins the Yorkshire Oaks

Trainer Paddy Twomey is set to try and maintain his run of big race success with Just Beautiful in Saturday's Group One feature at Newmarket. The Moyglare Stud-owned mare is one of just nine left in the Virgin Bet Sun Chariot Stakes with Aidan O'Brien's Meditate and Goldana from Joseph O'Brien's yard also in the mix. Just Beautiful and Mediate…

German-trained chestnut who won the German Derby in 2021 but has only added an Italian Group 2 win (October 2022) to his tally since then. Stuck to the task well when second to Simca Mille in the Grosser Preis von Berlin at Hoppegarten in August but flopped in major Baden-Baden contest last time and hard to see him figuring in the finish this…

Luke Morris: leading jockey reached 2000 winners in Britain at Southwell on Tuesday Tuesday: Southwell Luke Morris partnered his 2000th winner in Britain after winning the 5f handicap at Southwell on Colors Of Freedom for Archie Watson. Morris, widely regarded as one of the hardest-working jockeys in the weighing room, reached 2000 winners globally…

Timeform reveal their highest rated two-year-olds, three-year-olds and older horses of 2022 Top rated older horse BAAEED (Timeform rating 137) An outstanding rating of 137 made Baaeed the best horse in Europe in 2022 and by a comfortable margin. That rating put him 6 lb clear of fellow four-year-old colt Kyprios who dominated the staying division…

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From one of finest families in the stud book, Alpinista (by Frankel) has added more luster to the line on Oct. 1 with her victory in the Group 1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. That victory was her eighth in succession, with the last six being all G1s. Alpinista is not especially large, nor especially massive, but all the parts of the lovely gray filly…

It was good enough to chat to Sir Mark Prescott and Kirsten Rausing in the sunshine of York before and after Alpinista's fifth consecutive Group 1 success back in the summer, when she beat the gallant Oaks winner, Tuesday, in the Yorkshire Oaks, writes Tony Stafford. Yesterday I contentedly sat at home watching her battling performance in holding…

Sir Mark Prescott has spent more than half a century honing a reputation for keeping a little bit up his sleeve and the 101st Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe may prove his piece de resistance as Alpinista sluiced through the sodden Longchamp turf to record an emphatic victory under Luke Morris. It remains to be seen if this fabulous mare's decisive…

2022-10-02Sir Mark Prescott enjoys'best day' of his racing life after Alpinista wins Arc The sharp-witted master of Heath House has enjoyed multiple Group One victories at home and and abroad during a distinguished career dating back to 1970, but is a self-proclaimed reluctant traveller.

20 of the world's finest flat racers will enter the stalls at Longchamp on Sunday, ahead of the 2022 renewal of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Europe's richest flat race is one of six Group Ones to be run on Sunday. We've taken a look through the full card at Longchamp and picked out our best betting tips on Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe day. The one I…

An open-looking renewal of Europe's richest race is one of five'Win and You're In' contests on a glittering card at ParisLongchamp on Sunday The tantalising prospect of seeing Baaeed end his career here has failed to materialise, but the quality on show in the 2022 Qatar Prix De L'Arc De Triomphe remains extraordinarily high and in the absence of…

LUKE MORRIS, the rider they call'The Sniper', goes into Sunday's Arc with a horse who has'no chinks in her armour'. And, unusually, a trainer in tow - as he prepares to shoot them down in Europe's premier middle distance showpiece. It's been confirmed Sir Mark Prescott - the handler of Morris's mount Alpinista but a man with travel phobia - will be…

Twenty-eight years after he first won Down Under's biggest trotting event with Diamond Field - and 16 years since his most recent - the driver has a shot to win his fifth title with Bolt For Brilliance. by Adam Hamilton More than 28 years after champion driver Tony Herlihy won his first Inter Dominion, he thinks he has the horse to win Down Under's…

Kyprios has been an unlikely standard-bearer for Aidan O'Brien in 2022 and is hot favourite to put a seal on his superb season in Sunday's Comer Group Irish St Leger at the Curragh. The day two feature of Longines Irish Champions Weekend, due off at 4.10, finds itself in unexpected competition with the rearranged English Leger set to start just 15…

HASKOY is fancied to defend her unbeaten record to land the final Classic of the 2022, the Cazoo St Leger (3.55), at Doncaster. New London will go off a hot favourite to follow Charlie Appleby stablemate Hurricane Lane's victory in the race 12 months ago. But Haskoy has come a long way in a short space of time under trainer Ralph Beckett's guiding…

There's plenty of life left in the 2022 flat racing season. September sees some key group races and it won't be long before Irish trainers begin to make their final plans for the 2022 Breeders' Cup meeting at Keeneland in the USA. The Breeders' Cup meeting is the final destination after a busy season in Europe. If a person bets on horses with…

Kirsten Rausing's breeding operation, centred around her Lanwades Stud in Newmarket, added yet another Group 1 to its growing list of major successes as Alpinista landed the Yorkshire Oaks. In so-doing the mare took her own tally of Group 1 wins to 5. Miss Rausing has had the female line for five generations since buying the mare Alruccaba from the…

Alpinista was a brave winner of the Group 1 Darley Yorkshire Oaks for Luke Morris and Sir Mark Prescott. The grey is 7-1 with William Hill for the Arc in October Luke Morris riding Alpinista to win the Darley Yorkshire Oaks at York Racecourse Popular grey Alpinista hit the heights on home soil as she toughed it out in the Darley Yorkshire Oaks. The…

The Frankel mare has won top-level races in Germany and France on her previous four starts and she made it five in a row at York where she dug deep to see off the final challenge of Aidan O'Brien's Tuesday. A furlong out the Cazoo Oaks heroine got to the winner's quarters but it was the five-year-old who got the better of the three-year-old under…

Nashwa: will bid for back-to-back Group 1 wins in the Nassau Stakes at Glorious Goodwood next week Baaeed is unlikely to be the only odds-on Group 1 shot at Glorious Goodwood next week with Nashwa's Nassau Stakes task made easier by the defections of stablemate Inspiral and La Petite Coco. The €1 million Prix Jacques le Marois is under…

La Petite Coco (left) beats My Astra in the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh The share price of Paddy Twomey soared even higher at the Curragh as the trainer, who is operating at a 35 per cent strike-rate this season, celebrated a first Group 1 win thanks to La Petite Coco. Not only that, but the feat was achieved on the back of a 287-day absence…

La Petite Coco: favourite for Sunday's Pretty Polly Stakes Paddy Twomey is a trainer at the top of his game and the Tipperary handler will head to the Curragh for Derby weekend in the hope of securing his first Group 1 success. Twomey, operating at a 37 per cent strike-rate this season, will launch a two-pronged attack at Sunday's Alwasmiyah Pretty…