John Gosden is taking nothing for granted as Palace Pier bids to double his Royal Ascot tally and justify short odds in the Queen Anne Stakes. The Kingman colt burst on to the Group One scene with a thrilling victory in the St James’s Palace Stakes 12 months ago, before then making it two top-level victories in the Prix Jacques […]

Poetic Flare bids to emulate his sire Dawn Approach by adding the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot to his 2000 Guineas success. Dawn Approach took both races for trainer Jim Bolger in 2013, and now his son seeks to maintain family honour and complete the same Group One double in a race which forms part of the Qipco […]

Punters will be hoping for some good results at Royal Ascot this week. With popular jockey Frankie Dettori riding two of the big favourites, bookies will want their rivals to flourish instead. Around 12,000 fans have tickets to watch the racing live, at the Queen's favourite meeting. Here is the lowdown from Mirror Racing on five 'bankers' for the week […]

Jockey Laura Lafferty isn’t sure when she’ll be back riding but still counts herself lucky to have escaped last Friday’s horror fall at Swan Hill without major damage. Most feared Lafferty had suffered serious injuries when thrown to the ground after her mount Ronniejay collapsed and went through the running rail. Sadly, the Richard Laming-trained Ronniejay died after collapsing. An […]

One of 2020’s great Australian sporting stories could have a sequel. Denis Pagan completed an amazing feat when he won the Group 1 Victoria Derby at Flemington with Johnny Get Angry to go along with his two AFL premierships as a coach with North Melbourne. Pagan achieved what most trainers fail to do in a lifetime when he notched a […]

George Boughey in with a right royal chance at Ascot with no-nonsense trainer – who may have 10 runners at the meeting – insisting ‘there would not be a happier person on planet Earth’ than him with a win George Boughey is plotting his first serious attack on Royal Ascot this week  The pragmatic Boughey has had 45 winners this […]

Classic hero Poetic Flare and the unbeaten Mostahdaf are among 13 colts declared for the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot. Jim Bolger’s Poetic Flare landed the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket in early May, since when he has finished sixth in the French Guineas and runner-up in the Irish Guineas behind stablemate Mac Swiney. Mostahdaf has won each of […]

Chris Waller welcomes back superstar trio, Verry Elleegant, Nature Strip and Hungry Heart, to his Rosehill stables this week confident they can continue to play significant roles on racing’s big-stage as he looks to extend his record-breaking run as the nation’s leading Group 1 trainer. Verry Elleegant, Nature Strip and Hungry Heart won nine Group 1 races between them during […]

Jason Coyle is hoping 2020/21 Premiership front-runner James McDonald can coax a long overdue win out of Sydney’s best credentialed Class 1 horse, St Covet’s Spirit, in Monday’s ATC Blue Point Handicap (1400m). St Covet’s Spirit’s one and only win of her 23 start career dates back to September 11 in 2019. Since that time however, Coyle’s grey has lined-up […]

DETROIT — Felix Rosenqvist was taken to a Detroit hospital following a wall-smashing crash Saturday early in the IndyCar race on Belle Isle. The throttle appeared to stick in Rosenqvist’s car as he entered the sixth turn at the Raceway at Belle Isle Park. With no way to stop or slow his car, the Swede slammed into a tire barrier […]