#Kevin Manning

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…

EARTH can Strike in the opener. Having won like a nice prospect on debut here last month, Joseph O'Brien's EARTH STRIKE should take all the beating in this Listed contest. She bumped into a decent stablemate and Ger Lyons' Sister Rosetta that day, but this course and distance proved to suit her much more than it did them as she flew by both in the…

The first of two days of top class horse racing action takes place at Leopardstown this afternoon as Irish Champions Weekend kicks off. The eight-race card features two Group 1s, two Group 2s, one Group 3, a listed race and two incredibly competitive handicaps. Just seven line up in the Irish Champion Stakes, but it is a high class field, as you…

THE Irish Derby betting markets have been rocked after Aidan O'Brien decided to supplement Oaks winner Tuesday. Bookies had reported'one-way traffic' for favourite Westover. But there now looks like market turmoil for ante-post backers with the news Ryan Moore is to ride the superstar filly, who saw off Emily Upjohn in a thriller at…

Siskin: won the 2020 Irish 2000 Guineas, but who will score at the Curragh on Saturday? Your guide to Saturday's Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh, the first Classic of the season in Ireland.

The first of six challengers from the powerful Aidan O'Brien stable with the master of Ballydoyle looking to secure a 14th victory in the Irish Derby. ARTHUR'S KINGDOM is hoping to follow in the footsteps of his sire, Camelot who won this Classic for the trainer in 2012. He has never finished outside the top two places and has a leading chance for…

Watch a full replay of a race that memorably lived up to its billing at Leopardstown on Saturday. St Mark's Basilica landed the odds in a pulsating renewal of the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown. Having his first race since winning the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown 10 weeks ago, St Mark's Basilica (5-6 favourite) showed his trademark…

Dubai Honour: beaten at Royal Ascot but has come a long way since Dubai Honour suffered a handicap defeat off a mark of 91 on his first start of the year and ends it 30lb higher in the world's richest 1m2f turf race, but quick conditions - according to his camp - at Sha Tin may reduce his chances in Sunday's Longines Hong Kong Cup (8.30). The…

Kameko (Oisin Murphy, left) bags last year's Qipco 2000 Guineas. Who will win this year? Your guide to the Qipco 2000 Guineas (3.40), the first Classic of the season and Saturday's big race at Newmarket.

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…

Manning, 55, has ridden throughout most of his illustrious career for legendary trainer Jim Bolger, who is also his father-in-law. Together the pair have won a huge haul of major races across Ireland, the United Kingdom and France, as well as a Hong Kong Cup with Alexander Goldrun. Perhaps Manning's most famous success came in the 2008 Derby at…

Royal Ascot 2013 is always a spectacle to behold, not only in terms of horse racing, but also for the cultural significance it encompasses in the United Kingdom. While there are plenty of marquee horse races at Ascot Racecourse, it is also the site of the annual Royal Meeting in the third week of June. Various members of the British Royal Family…

St Mark's Basilica (centre) is absent but Wembley (left) and Thunder Moon (right) will run St Mark's Basilica is a notable absentee from the final field for the Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday after 15 colts were declared for the first Classic of the season. Trainer Aidan O'Brien will still be represented by Battleground, Van Gogh and…

The Champion Stakes at Newmarket was a walk in the park for Kevin Manning and New Approach compared to their victories in the Derby and the Irish Champion Stakes Kevin Manning hung up his riding boots on Monday after steering Vocal Studies to victoryat Galway. Always recognised for his strength in a finish, here we look at three vintage rides on…

THE £4 million Flat season finale is finally here. Ascot hosts a star-studded six-race card on QIPCO British Champions Day, with four mouth watering Group 1s to get stuck into. The meeting was launched in 2011 and has gone from strength to strength, and this year it will be the scene for Baaeed's career swansong. The unbeaten four-year-old will be…

There have been plenty of surprise winners on the horse racing circuit during 2021. Whilst some went off as huge outsiders, others had to overcome huge in-race odds, eventually crossing the line in first place having at one stage looked like having no hope. With 2021 coming to a close, we've taken a look at some of the most incredible rides which…

Pat Flynn: trainer of Sarlaochra Interest in Sarlaochra, the unraced two-year-old who had been subject to a major gamble on Saturday morning, has reportedly "cooled" according to Paddy Power. He had been slashed into 6-4 from 40-1. The Sioux Nation colt is now out to 15-2 with the firm having been of serious interest throughout the morning. His…

The horse racing NAP of the Day with SportsLens experts on Thursday, 11 August, is Boundless Ocean. He is down in distance for Group 3 Desmond Stakes over a mile at Leopardstown this evening (7:20). Jim Bolger's charge looks well worth a wager at tasty 2/1 odds today. Purchased by Sheik Abdululelah Abdulaziz A Almousa since his last horse…