Grand National hero Noble Yeats is set to be rerouted to the Paddy Power Cotswold Chase at Cheltenham on Saturday week after an administrative error ruled him out of Sunday’s Fleur De Lys Chase at Lingfield. The Emmet Mullins-trained eight-year-old provided amateur rider Sam Waley-Cohen with a fairytale success in last year’s renewal of the […]
Wednesday’s card at Plumpton has been cancelled due to a frozen track. Clerk of the course Marcus Waters inspected the track at 8.30am and felt that conditions would not be raceable in time for the meeting to go ahead. He said: “We got down to minus 2C and we were at that temperature for most […]
Day one of Lingfield’s Winter Million weekend on Friday has been abandoned. With temperatures reaching below minus 6C at the course on Monday night through Tuesday morning, an early bulletin had stressed the track needed fortune to be on their side for the first of their three-day meeting to go ahead – and following a […]
Luke Morris celebrated another landmark when reaching 2,000 career winners in Britain at Southwell on Tuesday. In a perfect piece of symmetry, the Archie Watson-trained Colors Of Freedom was winning at the track where Morris recorded his first career victory in November 2005. The Arc-winning rider, 34, joins only six other current riders in Britain […]
Grand National hero Noble Yeats will miss his intended appearance at Lingfield this weekend after it emerged he does not qualify for Sunday’s Fleur De Lys Chase. The Emmet Mullins-trained eight-year-old provided amateur rider Sam Waley-Cohen with a fairytale success in the Aintree spectacular last year, on what proved to be his final ride. Noble […]
Baaeed was crowned the world’s highest-rated turf horse at the the 2022 Longines World’s Best Racehorse Awards in London. The William Haggas-trained superstar also finished second to the imperious Flightline in the overall standings and was handed a rating of 135 which is just 5lb shy of the 140 handed to Frankel in 2012, which […]
Trainer John Sadler was thrilled to see the remarkable Flightline named the 2022 Longines World’s Best Racehorse at a glittering awards event in London on Tuesday. With an official rating of 140, Flightline equals Frankel’s benchmark set in 2012 under the current system. Previously, the highest rating given to a dirt horse was the 135 […]
Paul Struthers, formerly chief executive of the Professional Jockeys Association and head of communications for the British Horseracing Authority, has launched a new venture. Moya Sport will offer consultancy services to governing bodies, player associations and clubs, specialising in sporting integrity, athlete welfare, stakeholder communications and crisis management. Struthers – who announced in December 2021 […]
Officials at Ascot have admitted the change in forecast “may present some challenges” in being able to stage Saturday’s card – which is headlined by the LK Bennett Clarence House Chase. The two-mile Grade One is due to feature Willie Mullins’ Champion Chase hero Energumene against Alan King’s Arkle winner Edwardstone. However temperatures dropped as […]
Gaelic Warrior set himself up for a potential crack at the Betfair Hurdle with an effortless win at Clonmel. Given he was sent off the hugely prohibitive 1-14 favourite in the Munster Hurdle on a card transferred after being cancelled last week, he was only doing what was expected of him. But having won by […]