#Hamdan Al Maktoum

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…

A LOT has happened over the last eight years. Back in 2014, Brexit wasn't even a thing, Roy Hodgson was England boss and if you said you had Corona-virus people would think you were actually hungover after a few too many beers. But there had been one constant for the last 3091 days - luckless racehorse trainer Jeff Sadik couldn't saddle a winner…

Kentucky Derby second-place finisher Mandaloun (pink cap) wins Sunday's Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park. Photo courtesy of Monmouth Park June 14 (UPI) -- Maybe it's a little early to crown Belmont Stakes winner Essential Quality as best 3-year-old in the nation, especially after Mandaloun's impressive victory in Sunday's Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth…

Hollie Doyle and Dame Malliot land the Group 2 Princess of Wales's Tattersalls Stakes Fresh from her first Royal Ascot winner last month, Hollie Doyle ticked the latest item off her bucket list after Dame Malliot gave the high-flying rider her first success at Group level in the Princess of Wales's Tattersalls Stakes. Doyle rode more winners than…

Poetry in motion: Baaeed (left) and Jim Crowley storm to Queen Anne Stakes success Just when you thought you had witnessed the last firework on a British racecourse after the shenanigans at Epsom, William Haggas sent a rocket into orbit as Baaeed started the royal meeting with an almighty bang in the Queen Anne Stakes. Officially rated the best…

Newsboy fancies Baaeed to take star billing at Ascot as the unbeaten four-year-old bids to bow out in the Champion Stakes with an 11th straight win Ascot hosts the six-race Qipco Champions Day meeting on Saturday October 15 BAAEED tops the bill as a glittering cast list assembles for the £4million QIPCO British Champions Day seasonal finale at…

Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum has died at the age of 75, but his racing legacy will live on after an involvement with the sport spanning over four decades. From Nashwan to Dayjur, some of the greatest names of the Turf have carried Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum's colours to victory over the years. There are too many to mention, but here is a very select…

Baaeed: will make his final racecourse appearance in either the Arc or Champion Stakes Angus Gold says he would personally love nothing more than for Baaeed to round off his career in the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, an event he described as "the greatest race in the world". But Shadwell's long-serving racing manager and wise counsel to the…

Salute the Soldier wins Maktoum Challenge Round 3 on Super Saturday at Meydan, with the next stop the Dubai World Cup. Photo by Erika Rasmussen, courtesy of Dubai Racing Club March 8 (UPI) -- Super Saturday in Dubai, the highlight of weekend horse racing around the world, opened the door to World Cup night for some of the horses who have toiled…

Racing fans will be watching Newmarket on Saturday where the first Classic of the Flat season is run at 3.40. The race is one of six on the ITV schedule The first Classic races of the Flat season take place this weekend, with Wembley hoping to score in the Qipco 2000 Guineas. The Galileo colt, named after the home of English football, was backed in…

The Queen owned numerous superstar horses during her remarkable life in racing. Here are some of the best. . . The Queen had relatively few colts try their luck at Epsom in the Derby and none finished better than Aureole who, but for an inspired Sir Gordon Richards on Pinza, would have carried off the great prize just four days after the…

Saturday: Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes, Newbury Lockinge day is no stranger to hosting champions and William Haggas, who has lived and breathed the game for much of his life, might have one on his hands in the brilliant Baaeed, the potential star of the 2022 Flat season who captured the Al Shaqab-sponsored main event in a manner that suggested he will…

Stradivarius proved too good once more, overtaking hat-trick hero Double Trigger to claim a fourth Goodwood Cup under Frankie Dettori on the opening day Stradivarius made history by becoming the first horse to win the Al Shaqab Goodwood Cup four times. The mighty stayer overtook hat-trick hero Double Trigger (1995, 1997, 1998) when taking the big…

Enable is an odds-on favourite with the sponsors to make a winning return as she faces seven rivals for her seasonal return in Saturday's Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown. John Gosden's superstar filly has been off the track since winning the Breeders' Cup Turf at Churchill Downs last November, with that run only the third of her 2018 campaign after…

It's the mega-money finale of the Dubai Racing Carnival on Saturday with the now traditional staging of the Dubai World Cup Night at Meydan on the final Saturday in March. A mammoth nine-race card gets under way at 11.45am UK time and concludes with the main event itself, the Dubai World Cup at 4.50pm. Our tipster has selections for all the Meydan…

Irish champion flat trainer Aidan O'Brien is responsible for 12 of the 72 entries for the QIPCO 2000 Guineas at Newmarket, England, on Saturday, 1 May 2021. The first Classic race of the British flat season, which will be staged on Newmarket's Rowley Mile course, will see the Irish handler bid for an incredible 10 QIPCO 2000 Guineas success. The…

Owen Burrows on Saturday put the finishing touches to Alflaila's preparation for this month's Group 3 Bahrain International Trophy. The trainer has won £946644 in British prize-money this season, which towers over his previous best of £603394, but overseas wins for Hukum and Anmaat have added more than £200000 to the pot. In Alflaila, he has a…

When Joseph O'Brien won his first Classic as a trainer - the 2018 Irish Derby with Latrobe - the next four home were all trained by his father Aidan. It had been a similar story two years earlier when Joseph's first Group 1 success as a trainer came in the Moyglare Stud Stakes in which Intricately was chased home by a pair of Ballydoyle fillies.…

Five days of fantastic racing at Goodwood conclude with Saturday's card. Tom Marquand could round off a great week on Unibet Stewards' Cup favourite Nahaarr Khadijah Mellah discusses horse racing background ahead of Magnolia Cup The grand finale of Glorious Goodwood is upon us - and what a week it has been. History has been made by four-time…

The best sprinter I've seen who conquered everything thrown at him. From Royal Ascot to York, Paris to New York. Apart from the shadows cast by the Belmont Park grandstand 100 yards from the finish on the dirt track. The fastest racehorse in the world, doing what he was bred to do, jumped not once, but twice. Spooked and startled by what he thought…

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…

Ahead of Baaeed's final run in the Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot on Saturday, the former champion jockey talks Jon Lees through the six G1 victories that catapulted the superstar colt to world #1 status. GB: Ten out of ten, still unbeaten and not serious challenged for a 12-month period. That's probably why Baaeed is rated world #1 on turf…

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…

A pair of individuals who specialise in contrasting areas of expertise brought another incredible week for Irish trainers in Royal Ascot to a breathtaking climax on Saturday. lade Power benefited from a typically no-nonsense Wayne Lordan steer to claim a famous Diamond Jubilee triumph for Eddie Lynam, before Pique Sous excelled under a similarly…

The door to the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe may not have swung wide-open for Baaeed - but it's at least now ajar with the ParisLongchamp showpiece under consideration for the latest Shadwell superstar. Hamdan Al Maktoum never won the great race during his remarkable ownership career, Sakhee having switched to Godolphin before his triumph in…