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The Flat jockey embroiled in the latest race fixing scandel Andrew Heffernan, has been banned from racing for 15 years by the BHA. Former Premier League footballer Michael Chopran has had a 10 year ban having been found in breach of the Rules of Racing following the outcome of a BHA investigation into alleged corruption along with seven others.
Chopra was found guilty of committing corrupt and fraudulent practices and offering a bribe, while
Leopardstown officials are confident this weekend`s two-day fixture will go ahead despite calling an 8am inspection ahead of Saturday`s card.
The Foxrock venue has been hit by further rainfall on Friday but remain raceable at the moment and Leopardstown`s racing and operations manager Nessa Joyce is hopeful day one of the meeting will beat the weather.
The Frank Ward Solicitors Arkle Novice Chase takes centre stage on Saturday, a
Officials at Cheltenham are extremely hopeful Saturday's Trials Day meeting will go ahead . Staff at Prestbury Park have been fighting the elements all week as they try to get the track ready for a meeting which is set to feature some of the big names in racing.
While the track has been covered for over a week to guard against frost, snow earlier this week looked to be a provblem as it was lying on top of the covers.
However, cle
Sajjhaa ended a barren spell that goes back to July 2011 as she won the Group Two Cape Verdi at Meydan for Godolphin. The six-year-old had not claimed victory since winning a Listed event at York 18 months ago and was having her first run since finishing second at Doncaster last November, the last of three placed efforts in Europe last term. One of four Godolphin runners in the one-mile contest, Sajjhaa sat on the heels of her pacemaking stablemate
Saturday`s meeting at Uttoxeter will have a 10am inspection on Thursday. There remains two inches of snow remains on the track despite a slight thaw and with heavy frost forecast things are not looking good! Clerk of the course Charlie Moore said: "We are going to give it one more night, but with minus 3C tonight and minus 8C to minus 12C on Thursday night it is possible the thaw that is forecast on Friday night/Saturday morning will not be enough
Doncaster is inviting its punters to choose a name for a new Listed race for two-year-olds at the St Leger Festival in September. Frankel won the corresponding race over seven furlongs on the Friday of Doncaster's biggest meeting on his second ever start back in 2010, when it was run as a conditions event. Doncaster has asked the course`s followers on Twitter to come with the best title, racing fans have until 12 noon on Friday to submit suggestions
The Frank Ward Solicitors Arkle Novice Chase has been switched from Sunday's card to Leopardstown to Saturday because o The Grade One contest changes places with the Ryan's Event Cleaners Beginners Chase run over the same trip of two miles and one furlong. In another change, the Listed Solerina Mares Novice Hurdle, which should have been run at Fairyhouse last weekend, has been transferred to Leopardstown's Sunday card. Fresh entries for this rac
Two former champion hurdlers look likely to clash at Leopardstown on Sunday, with Hurricane Fly and Binocular amongst six remaining possible runners in the BHP Irish Champion Hurdle.
The Willie Mullins-trained Hurricane Fly is going for a hat-trick in Ireland's feature hurdle race and has looked right back to his best this season in winning the Morgiana and the Istabraq Festival Hurdle.
"He's in great shape. Looking at him coming
Lingfield`s meeting on Tuesday must now pass a 7am inspection on raceday morning.
With snow still an issue at the Surrey venue, another check is required before the meeting can be given the go-ahead.
Clerk of the course Neil MacKenzie Ross assessed conditions at 2pm inspection on Monday, and feels the maintenance work carried out on the track has improved the chances of racing.
MacKenzie Ross said: "Things have imp
Officials at Cheltenham say the weather over the next two days will be pivotal as to whether their Festival Trials meeting will go ahead on Saturday. Although the course is raceable under the protective covers, temperatures remain very cold and more snow is forecast before a hoped-for improvement in the second half of the week. Simon Claisse, Clerk of the course describes the meeting as "being in the balance" and expects to have a better idea of pr
Friday`s upcoming meeting looks to be already in doubt, with an inspection planned for Wednesday, but there is some optimism that Doncaster`s card on Saturday will go ahead and hopefully lift the gloom even if Cheltenham is lost.
Doncaster`s Saturday fixture has been boosted by the addition of the Champion Hurdle Trial, rearranged from Haydock, with Grandouet, Peddlers Cross and Countrywide Flame in the frame, while the Great Yorkshire Chase,
Todays Flat meeting at Kempton has been cancelled due to snow.
Although course officials gave the fixture the go-ahead earlier in the morning, the situation has since deteriorated with further snow.
Kempton's abandonment means there is now no racing at all in Britain and in Ireland on Sunday.
Acting clerk of the course Sarah Dunster said: "The temperatures have dropped quite a bit in half an hour.
"Th
Davy Russell completed a back to back four timer with victory in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Irish Racing Writers Novice Hurdle at Naas yesterday.
Following impressive victories aboard Morning Assembly, Solwhit and Tofino Bay on the first three races on the card, Russell was at it again in the colours of Gigginstown House Stud as he partnered Un Atout (2/7) to an easy victory.
The five year old trained by Willie Mullins had score
Wise Dan was crowned 2012 Horse of the Year at the 42nd annual Eclipse Awards in Florida on Saturday night.
The Charles Lopresti-trained six-year-old won the Breeders' Cup Mile at Santa Anita in November, and was successful in four of his other five starts last year.
Wise Dan also became the first horse since John Henry in 1981 to win the top award in addition to champion male Turf horse and champion older male.
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Former Welsh National hero Le Beau Bai failed to recover from a cracked pelvis and has sadly had to be put down on Friday morning. Richard Lee and his staff at Bell House, had been trying hard to keep the 10-year-old as still as possible after his injury, which had ruled him out of defending his crown in the Chepstow marathon. "It is four weeks to the day that it happened and it was all going very well," said Lee. Unfortunately something happened t
This afternoon`s meeting at Lingfield has been abandoned due to adverse weather conditions. Having already lost Friday's fixture following heavy snowfall on Friday morning, clerk of the course Neil Mackenzie Ross announced an inspection for 7am on Saturday in the hope conditions would improve. However, further snow overnight has left the situation untenable and officials have had no option but to cancel the card. Mackenzie Ross said: "We already
This afternoon's National Hunt fixture at Naas goes ahead as scheduled after the track passed an 8am inspection.
Today`s meeting at Lingfield has been abandoned due to heavy snow.
The track was found to be raceable after inspections at 8am, 10am and 11am, but the tractor harrowing the Polytrack was struggling to keep the all-weather track ready for action and with the snow showing no sign of slowing, clerk of the course Neil Mackenzie-Ross had to give up hope of the meeting going ahead.
He said: "We are just struggling with the machinery on the tr
Zenyatta's half-sister Eblouissante maintained her unbeaten record when taking an allowance optional claimer at Santa Anita on Thursday. A four-year-old daughter of Bernardini, her presence at the meeting swelled the usual crowd with a number of diehard fans of the 2010 Horse Of The Year turning up to watch her follow up her maiden success. Eblouissante is trained, like Zenyatta, by John Shireffs, who told the Los Angeles Times: "Zenyatta had so man
Officials at Wetherby are due to hold an inspection at 11am on Sunday to assess the prospects of Tuesday's National Hunt meeting going ahead. The West Yorkshire venue is covered with snow and clerk of the course Jonjo Sanderson is pessimistic about the chances of the fixture beating the elements. He said: "We have a covering of snow. It's not heavy, but it's no longer light. "We are also frozen in one or two places and obviously there is furthe
Ascot`s Saturday card has been called off due to snow. Course officials were due to inspect the track at 4.30pm but were forced into making an early call in light of the already worsening conditions. Punters were looking forward to seeing the return of Sprinter Sacre in the Victor Chandler Chase. "We've had two inches of snow which is forecast to go on for the rest of the day and possibly into the evening," said clerk of the course Chris Stickels.
Supreme Novices' Hurdle favourite Jezki is set to head straight to the Cheltenham Festival in March without another run say Jessica Harrington.
The five-year-old stretched his unbeaten record over hurdles to four with a brilliant display at Leopardstown over the Christmas period and leading owner JP McManus has since purchased the gelding.
Harrington suggested immediately after his Leopardstown romp that Jezki could return to Le
Hold On Julio is set to remain over hurdles for the immediate future following an encouraging run at Kempton on Saturday. The smart chaser was a promising third on his first start of the season at Cheltenham and a creditable fifth in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury, but then failed to complete in a Listed event at Ascot last month. Switched back to the smaller obstacles, the 10-year-old beat all bar the exciting Cloudy Copper at Kempton and trainer
Conditional jockey Paul Bohan remains in hospital after suffering a suspected back injury in a fall at Kempton on Saturday. The rider was partnering Laterly for his boss Steve Gollings in the concluding William Hill - Download The App Handicap Hurdle when his mount came to grief at the fourth flight. Bohan was taken to hospital by ambulance but Gollings does not yet know the full extent of his injuries. Gollings said: "I'm afraid I can't give yo
Rule The World ran out a easy winner of the Slaney Novice Hurdle at Naas as heabily fancied Champagne Fever suffered a surprise defeat. Ruby Walsh never seemed happy aboard the 1/4 favourite and he went out very quickly after leading Minsk (5/1) until the turn for home. However, in behind Davy Russell hadn't moved a muscle aboard the 7/1 winner who was still hard on the bridle when going to the front between the last two flights of hurdles and he was
Tony McCoy`s prediction that Teaforthee was too short proved correct as The champion jockey partnered Rebecca Curtis charge into second in the Chepstow marathon on Saturday but says it was perfect trial for the Grand National itself at Aintree in April and was impressed by his battling qualities.
"He ran a great race. He stayed on all the way up the straight," McCoy told At The Races.
"When the other horse (Monbeg Dude) passed him
Tony McCoy doesn`t agree with the bookies with their price for Teaforthree ahead of the Welsh National. The nine-year-old, who will be partnered by the champion jockey, has been well supported during the ante-post markets, and is set to be sent off a short priced favourite on Saturday afternoon. McCoy, while confident of his chances in the 18-runner heat, told At The Races: "With the conditions as they are, it's going to be wide-open. Monbeg Dude is
Originally intended for Cheltenham on New Year's Day, the British Horseracing Authority rescheduled the Grade Two contest when that meeting was lost to the weather. However, it did so under the stipulation that the race could still be abandoned if there were less than four declarations. Nicky Henderson declared Captain Conan and Paul Nicholls was to take him on with Unioniste. However, Ben Case was the only other trainer to confirm his intention
Prize money at Huntingdon Racecourse will rise from £400,000 in 2012 to £724,950 for 2013, an impressive 80% increase. The funds, made available by course owners The Jockey Club, are part of a £5m rise in prize money across its group of tracks. It is a much needed boost for the Cambridgeshire course after the postponement of a series of meetings. "We are delighted to be putting so much extra money into prize funds in 2013," said general manager S
The multiple Classsic-winning jockey, 42, was the first to enter the stage at studios in Elstree, Hertfordshire, and was immediately set a challenge, being paired with the X Factor's Rylan Clark and asked to make a series of decisions that would affect fellow housemates, involving splitting contestants into either the luxurious house or a grim basement area, lacking hot water and readily available food among other things. As always, the line-up for the
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A sealed, speed-favoring sloppy track and bad racing luck endured by the favorite combined to allow 24-1 longshot Ruler On Ice to claim a stunning victory in the 143rd running of the Belmont Stakes June 11.
Ruler On Ice is a gelded son of Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms’ Roman Ruler out of Champagne Glow (by Saratoga Six). He was bred in Kentucky by Liberati
The Cheltenham Festival finally got under way today in an exiting opening day.
Good news for the bookies when our featured treble and popular bet for the opening day was one short as Ruby Walsh on Hurricane Fly could only manage a third place finish in the Stan James Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy (Grade 1) despite being strong favourite. On
CLARE BALDING watches all sections of society gather on Epsom Downs to watch the Derby, the biggest day of the flat racing year. In her exploration of the way Britain has shaped sport and sport has shaped the British, Clare looks at the socially unifying power of the race course and the way sport and gambling have become inextricably linked. As Pro
Filming of horses in the second series of the HBO racing drama "Luck" has been temporarily suspended following the death of a third thoroughbred in connection with the show. The American Humane Association, which has been monitoring horse welfare on set, said the animal reared up and fell backwards while being walked to a barn.
HBO has a
Malton trainers Nigel Tinkler and Richard Fahey ended the opening day of York's Ebor meeting with a winner each. Tinkler's Bomber Jet took the Sportingbet.com Stakes, while Fahey's Our Joe Mac won the final race, the Patrington Haven Leisure Park Stakes. Tinkler told BBC Radio York: "The horse is like a child who needs his hand holding, so he had a
Dermot Weld has revealed Melbourne Cup contender Galileo`s Choice suffered travel sickness following a journey to Australia.
The six-year-old gelding, a comfortable winner in his last two races, had been on antibiotics since touching down in Melbourne, but his temperature is now said to be back to normal.
Weld maintains there is
Leading jockey needs more time to recover from a badly broken jaw and has now set his sights on Aintree. While Tony McCoy will learn this evening, after an independent medical assessment, how many days of race-riding he can expect before Cheltenham, the game is up for Graham Lee. Despite vowing that he would be back for the Festival, “whatever it t
A plan to stage an all-chase and bumper card at Lingfield on Tuesday will be implemented after the hurdle races were abandoned due to waterlogging today.
The fixture will include the three chases already scheduled plus three additional chases and a National Hunt Flat race, which will be run on the all-weather track.
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Britain's leading female flat jockey Hayley Turner will be out of action for several weeks after suffering a broken ankle in a fall at Bath. The 28-year-old's agent Guy Jewell said the rider was "comfortable" after an operation on Thursday. "I think she'll be out for six to eight weeks but sportsmen and women are often back quicker than the norm,"
Brilliant 2,000 Guineas winner Frankel will head a field of nine runners in the St James's Palace Stakes on the opening day of Royal Ascot on Tuesday. The unbeaten colt, trained by newly-knighted Sir Henry Cecil, is the leading equine attraction as the racecourse celebrates its 300th year. Jockey Tom Queally told BBC Sport: "You never know what wil
One of the 17 projects the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation will fund in 2011 includes the continuation of a study at the Gluck Equine Research Center now in its second year. The research project, "Orthopedic and Genetic Roles in Wobbler Syndrome," is led by James MacLeod, VMD, PhD, John S. and Elizabeth A. Knight chair and professor of vete
The day job will get in the way when Sir Alex Ferguson's Rock Of Gibraltar attempts to crown his perfect season at the Breeders' Cup meeting in Chicago a week on Saturday. The day job will get in the way when Sir Alex Ferguson's Rock Of Gibraltar attempts to crown his perfect season at the Breeders' Cup meeting in Chicago a week on Saturday.
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Conditional jockey Adam Wedge has suffered a double leg break following a freak incident at Fakenham on Monday. The 7lb claimer was aboard No More Whispers in the East Dereham Handicap Hurdle when he was kicked by Owls FC as the runners were about to line up. Wedge was unshipped and received medical attention on the ground, after which he was taken
Sulamani galloped into retirement in style and and gave Frankie Dettori the perfect start to Breeders' Cup week by overpowering his rivals in the Pattison Canadian International at Woodbine last night. The Godolphin globe-trotter has been dubbed "the flying toast rack" due to his wiry frame, but his ability has never been in doubt and he was sent o