This is the incredible moment a 62-year-old jockey literally flew over the finish line after losing control of his horse. Shoichi Kawahara was aboard six-year-old mare Vintage Pearl when cameras captured the moment he went airborne and crashed to the ground at the end of a race in Japan. Kayo is your ticket to the best sport streaming Live & […]

Gordon Elliott urged to ‘take a break’ from racing following shocking photo of him sat on a dead horse with fellow Grand National-winning trainer Ted Walsh fearing for Irishman’s mental health as punishment looms Fellow trainer Ted Walsh didn’t defend Gordon Elliott’s moment of madness   But touched on mental well-being of embattled trainer ahead of IHRB hearing Photo emerged last weekend […]

ROCK SOUND is fancied to keep Hollie Doyle on a high with a win in the Bombardier British Hopped Amber Beer Handicap (2.15) at Southwell. Whatever holds the George Boughey trainee back, it’s unlikely to be a lack of confidence on the part of the jockey – Doyle rode the winners of five consecutive races at Kempton Park last night […]

Bjorn Baker had to make the phone call every trainer dreads. Scott Darby, the syndicator and owner, listened as he was given the bad news. Samadoubt, their Group 1-winning weight-for-age star, had suffered tendon damage to his off-foreleg. The gelding’s race career was at the crossroads. “It happened at trackwork one morning, just a routine piece of work,’’ Baker said. […]

One of the 12 The Everest slots is up for sale and can be purchased for the next three years. Greg Ingham’s GPI Racing is offering his slot and the sale process is being managed by Inglis. Inglis has called on “interested parties submitting bids during an expressions of interest period”, which is now open until 5pm on Thursday, April […]

Trainer Ted Walsh believes the loss of Gordon Elliott's stable stars will hurt him more than the outcome of the dead horse photo investigation. Elliott is set to hear the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board's verdict on Friday, in response to the viral image, with two weeks until the Cheltenham Festival. Walsh, 70, told RTE : "To be in Gordon Elliott’s […]

Cheltenham clerk of the course Simon Claisse expects the ground at Prestbury Park to be mainly good to soft for the start of the four-day Festival in 13 days’ time. Claisse’s assessment is the going report will also contain either good or soft in places. “As things currently stand I have a good sense we are going to start with […]

Craig Newitt could already hold the outright record of Newmarket Handicap wins for a jockey had he made the right choice in 2014. Newitt won that year’s Oakleigh Plate on Lankan Rupee but stuck with his favourite mare Samaready in the Newmarket Handicap. The decision paved the way for Chad Schofield to ride Lankan Rupee to victory in the Newmarket. […]

Group 1 contests at Flemington and Randwick will be the centrepiece of thoroughbred racing across the nation on Saturday and Racenet has the fields and form for both meetings online. One of Australia’s great handicaps – the $1.25 million Newmarket Handicap (1200m) down the straight six course headlines the big Flemington Group 1 card where the time-honoured $1.5 million Australian […]