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STAYING power is going to be the key to today's card at York with 3 televised races of 12, 14 and 16 furlongs, alongside the Gimcrack for 2-year-olds.

For many punters, the Ebor is a regular prize to try and plunder and this year's renewal ...

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By Fiona Scott

TWENTY-FIVE years ago, Peter Dun's life was hanging in the balance.

Lying at Newcastle General Hospital with a badly fractured skull and his right leg broken in six places, the 20-year-old amateur jockey was in a coma for 42 days ...

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Shergar Cup day, the meeting where teams of jockeys from Britain and beyond compete against each other, scoring points as they do, is on us once again, yet astonishingly without terrestrial television cameras this time. The day that has always seeked to embrace amateur racegoers coul...

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Glorious Goodwood has certainly lived up to it’s billing so far, with the brightest jewels in the crown shining in Wednesday’s Sussex Stakes where top 3-year-old elect Canford Cliffs did his finest impression of a fast cat chasing a not-so-fast mouse. Messrs Hannon and Hu...

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I have a handful of horses in training myself. Yeah, most are home-bred, and bear the names of Morrissey singles - a sort of homage to the late Terry Mills’ style of naming horses.
   Dagenham ...

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The return of Derby winner WORKFORCE to active duty on the racecourse has been eagerly awaited by all who wondered, while watching him storm up the Epsom straight to a seven length success in a record-breaking time at the beginning...