Sometimes placing horses is all about getting the timing right and Nathan Doyle might have struck the right time to bring in-form mare Impulse Control to town at Canterbury today. The four-year-old has won three of her 11 starts, including her past two, and given the prowess she’s showing on wet tracks there’s every chance she can take the class […]

Racing powerhouse Godolphin and head trainer James Cummings risk being stripped of a valuable group 1 win after Racing NSW stewards announced an inquiry into last year’s Canterbury Stakes, won by mare Savatiano. In the same week this year’s Canterbury Stakes is due to be run, the fate of last year’s result will hinge on the results of a hearing […]

Robin Goodfellow’s racing tips: Best bets for Monday, February 28 Sportsmail’s racing expert Robin Goodfellow is on hand with his tips for Monday’s meetings at Carlisle, Wolverhampton and Plumpton. Sportsmail’s racing expert Robin Goodfellow dishes out his tips for Friday’s meetings ROBIN GOODFELLOW  1.00 Made For You  1.35 Houston Texas  2.10 Masked Crusader  2.45 Armattiekan  3.20 No Cruise Yet  3.55 […]

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Scott McLaughlin at last showed his long move from Australia to the United States was worth the gamble, getting his first IndyCar Series win on Sunday in the season-opening race through the downtown streets of St. Petersburg. Now the New Zealander will have to see how far his first victory will take him: IndyCar’s season-opening winner […]

Robin Goodfellow’s racing tips: Best bets for Friday, February 25 Sportsmail’s racing expert Robin Goodfellow is on hand with his tips for Friday’s meetings at Warwick, Exeter, Wolverhampton and Lingfield. Sportsmail’s racing expert Robin Goodfellow dishes out his tips for Friday’s meetings ROBIN GOODFELLOW  1.20 Glance From Clover  1.55 Ambion Hill 2.30 Everything’sontick 3.05 Midnightreferendum 3.40 Espoir De Guye 4.10 […]

Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Who in the world is Austin Cindric? As the 2022 Daytona 500 ground its way to the checkered flag, finally ending a 3½ hour enduro race that put a dozen cars behind the wall and saw 25 […]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin became a spectator for the first time in his career at “The Great American Race.” Hamlin crashed out of NASCAR’s premier event Sunday, his first DNF in 17 starts in the season opener. Hamlin was caught up on an eight-car melee near the end of the opening stage. Brad Keselowski […]

Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Here at Daytona, the sun is shining, the seagulls are gulling, and the hotels are price gouging. All that means it must time for 64th edition of the “Great American Race,” the Daytona 500, the “Super Bowl […]

The career of champion jockey Nash Rawiller has been synonymous with star horses Pierro and More Joyous, but a win on Eduardo in Saturday’s Lightning Stakes would make the sprinter Rawiller’s greatest ever prizemoney earner. Just nine horses will take their place in the $1 million sprint down the Flemington straight, Australia’s richest 1000-metre race, but the star-studded field already […]

Sir Mark Todd has been handed an interim suspension by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) after a video of him hitting a horse went viral on social media. The two-time Olympic gold medallist, 65, sparked outrage at the weekend after footage emerged of him appearing to thwack a horse 10 times on its rear end. Approaching a water obstacle, the […]