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Grand National 2024: Lucinda Russell bids to make history with Corach Rambler

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Lucinda Russell has admitted winning the Aintree Grand National is “incredibly addictive” as she bids to become the most successful female trainer in the race’s history. The Kinross-based handler won the world’s greatest steeplechase for a second time in 2023 when Corach Rambler triumphed at Aintree, six years after One For Arthur crossed the line […]

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Cheltenham Festival 2024: 100 Gold Cup Winners Gather to Celebrate Centenary

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Some of Jump racing’s most famous names attended Cheltenham Racecourse, as 100 winners of the Cheltenham Gold Cup gathered to celebrate the race’s centenary. Although a race known as the Cheltenham Gold Cup had existed in the past as a three-mile Flat race in the 19th Century, its present status is very much down to

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Cheltenham Festival 2024: National Hunt Chase to be run in honour of Maureen Mullins

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The Grade Two National Hunt Chase, staged on Champion Day at The Cheltenham Festival 2024 (Tuesday 12th March), will be run in honour of the late Maureen Mullins. Mullins, who sadly passed away aged 94 on 14th February, was the matriarch of an outstanding Irish racing dynasty. Her late husband Paddy saddled half a dozen

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Lunar Eclipse moves Hayley Turner up to 999 wins

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Hayley Turner moved on to career winner number 999 after working her magic aboard Lunar Eclipse. Their rivals were put in the shade in the second division of the Betfred TV British EBF Fillies’ Novice Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday 4th November.  Having reportedly only bloomed at home in the last month according to her

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Jockey Elizabeth Gale rides Aintree winner – less than three years after breaking her back

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Elizabeth Gale described her victory aboard Celebre D’Allen as a ‘massive deal’ after the conditional jockey secured her biggest victory since recovering from a broken back in the Jewson Vieux Lion Rouge Veterans’ Handicap Chase at Aintree.  Less than three years after recovering from breaking two vertebrae following a point-to-point fall, the 21-year-old was beaming with delight

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Hollie Doyle has now Won at every UK Flat Racecourse with Victory in 2023 Carlisle Bell

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Hollie Doyle has now completed the feat of winning a race at every UK Flat racecourse, with her victory in the 2023 running of the historic Carlisle Bell. Hollie Doyle found the ideal opportunity to ride her first winner at Carlisle, by striking in the 424-year old Stablemate By Agma Carlisle Bell Handicap on board the

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Royal Ascot 2023: Dettori leaves on a high

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Royal Ascot 2023: Frankie Dettori left the Royal Meeting on a high after he was presented with a bespoke number cloth and Moet Nebuchadnezzar following his final Royal Ascot ride in the Golden Gates Handicap. The 52-year-old rode his first Royal Ascot winner in 1990 and signed off with another four victories this year, headed

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Royal Ascot 2023: Fabulous Frankie and the End of an Era

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Royal Ascot 2023 will be fabulous Frankie Dettori’s final Royal Meeting – marking the end of an extraordinary racing era. FRANKIE’S FINAL ROYAL MEETING It’s 34 years since an unknown 18-year-old Italian rode Rain Burst to finish fifth in the 1989 Coronation Stakes. 12,422 days later, on the Saturday of Royal Ascot 2023, there will

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Derby Festival 2023: Seventh Oaks Victory for Frankie Dettori as Soul Sister Romps Home

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Frankie Dettori rode a seventh Betfred Oaks winner on Soul Sister (11/4) at Epsom Downs Racecourse, 2023. The Frankel filly scored by a length and three-quarters from 5/6 Favourite Savethelastdance. Dettori’s previous Oaks winners were Balanchine (1994), Moonshell (1995), Kazzia (2002), Enable (2017), Anapurna (2019) and Snowfall (2021). He has now ridden 23 English Classic winners.

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Grand National 2023: American bids to Emulate Ancestor’s Win 100 Years On

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An American racehorse owner is bidding to emulate his ancestor’s win in the Grand National of 1923 by triumphing in the race exactly 100 years on. Pierre Manigault and his family will travel more than 4,000 miles from South Carolina in the United States to Aintree racecourse to watch Cape Gentleman – who was bought last

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