32 Group or Grade 1 winners in Saudi Cup alone and total 964 entries for new race day The first running of the USD$29.2m Saudi Cup raceday has attracted an impressive entry, including no less than 32 Group or Grade 1 winners in the big race alone, across an eight-race card. Held at King Abdulaziz […]
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Thyme Hill laid claim to the mantle of Britain’s leading staying novice hurdler when he extended an unbeaten start to his career over obstacles with victory in the Grade 1 Betway Challow Hurdle at Newbury on Saturday. The Philip Hobbs-trained horse added to Grade 2 successes at Chepstow and Cheltenham by shaking off The Cashel Man to score
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While the nation winds down for Christmas 5,500 stable staff will remain hard at work preparing for one of the busiest times in the horseracing calendar with eight fixtures taking place on Boxing Day alone. Among those hard at work is the team at 11-time Champion Trainer Paul Nicholl’s yard in Somerset who are busy
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Thursday 26th December: Kempton Park, 3m, 32Red King George VI Chase (Grade 1) (Class 1) (4yo+) The King George VI Chase which is open to horses aged four and over was established in 1937 and was named in honour of the new King. The race was only run twice before the Second World War and
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Saturday 7th December: Sandown – 1m 7½f (1m 7f 119y) Betfair Tingle Creek Chase (Grade 1) (Class 1) (4yo+) The Tingle Creek was first run in 1979 and was named in honour of the exuberant front running chaser of the same name. In seven seasons Tingle Creek ran 52 races in Britain, all but two
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HONG KONG: Lanfranco “Frankie” Dettori was celebrated as the 2019 Longines World’s Best Jockey on 6th December at the Longines Hong Kong International Races Gala dinner. Dettori is the first jockey to win the award in back-to-back years, after also winning in 2018. He first took the title in 2015. With a total of 102
Jockey Hollie Doyle set a new record for the number of victories by a female jockey in a calendar year in Great Britain when riding her 107th win at Southwell Racecourse on 5th December 2019. The 23-year-old Lambourn-based jockey reached the milestone riding Class Clown, trained by David Barron, when the pair stormed home to
Thoroughbred Tales is a new initiative that aims to promote racing to a wider audience through the people actually working behind the scenes in the racing and breeding industry. This global social media project centres mainly around Twitter, but also features Facebook and Instagram accounts, which will be guest hosted by different industry professionals for certain periods
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The Go Racing In Yorkshire Future Stars Apprentice Series, supported by White Rose Saddlery has been won for the second year in a row by Kieran Schofield. The jockey who was apprentice to Brian Ellison at the beginning of the season, but since turning 26 in October is now a claiming professional, took an early
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Dual Champion Hurdle hero Buveur D’Air headlines 14 entries for the £110,000 G1 Betfair Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle on Saturday 30th November. Buveur D’Air is aiming for a third successive victory in Newcastle’s two-mile highlight, a feat that would emulate the great Comedy Of Errors who landed three consecutive renewals between 1972 and 1974. Birds
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