Hopes of a British Classic success for the King and Queen at Doncaster next month have been dashed, with their St Leger entry Point Of Law (Frankel) having recently been sold to continue his career with Ciaron Maher in Australia. Formerly trained by John and Thady Gosden, Point Of Law remains relatively unexposed after just [...]

With the yearling sales season just around the corner, John Tuthill of Owenstown Stud is hoping to arrive at Doncaster for his first gig of the summer with an extra spring in his step courtesy of Sun Goddess (Sioux Nation), the star graduate of last year's Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale who heads to the [...]

The Timeform rankings return to highlight the top-rated maiden/novice winners in Britain and Ireland from the last fortnight (July 20-August 2), with the delights of Galway and Goodwood proving as informative as ever. =4. GREEN DREAMER (IRE) Churchill (Ire) – Power's Dream (Ire), by Power (GB) Timeform performance rating: 90 The 1m maiden run at [...]

The Timeform rankings return to highlight the top-rated maiden/novice winners in Britain and Ireland from the last fortnight (July 6-19), with a first-crop daughter of Rathbarry Stud's State Of Rest leading the way. =5. HAFFNER Justify – Earth Strike (Ire), by Zoffany (Ire) Timeform performance rating: 90 Haffner stepped up markedly on his debut form [...]

We're roughly at the halfway point of the Flat season now, with the July Festival in the rearview mirror and Goodwood soon to appear on the horizon, so it seems as good a time as any to assess how the class of 2026 is shaping up when it comes to the first-season sires. The first [...]

On Bahrain's big day in Newmarket, it was perhaps only fitting that the top lot on the final day of the Tattersalls July Sale should be destined to continue his racing career in that corner of the Middle East, with the dual winner Sea Force (Sea The Stars) (lot 765) soon to enter the care [...]

The Timeform rankings return to highlight the top-rated maiden/novice winners in Britain and Ireland from the last fortnight (June 22-July 5), with a trio of Ballydoyle bluebloods taking high order after a productive Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby Festival for the stable. =3. ABRAHAM LINCOLN (GB) Wootton Bassett (GB) – High Celebrity (Fr), by Invincible [...]

Perhaps best known as Classic-winning owners, Martin and Lee Taylor now head to Sandown on Saturday with serious designs on entering the realm of Group 1-winning breeders, an ambition nearly two decades in the making for the brothers behind leading Coral-Eclipse contender Gethin (Ghaiyyath). Trained by Owen Burrows, Gethin still carried the green and red [...]

Royal Ascot is the focus of this week's column as we rank the six two-year-old winners at the meeting, according to Timeform ratings. The usual format will return next week with a look at the maiden/novice winners who might have gone under the radar whilst all eyes were on the action in Berkshire. 6. NOLA [...]

There's a change to the usual format this week as we focus on the crème de la crème of the two-year-olds, looking forward to some significant clashes in store at Royal Ascot next week. Timeform's highest-rated juvenile heading into Royal Ascot is the unbeaten G3 Marble Hill Stakes hero Great Barrier Reef (No Nay Never), [...]

With the Epsom Classics now in the rearview mirror, the countdown to Royal Ascot will soon be uppermost in everybody's thoughts, most definitely if your name is Michael or Anne Gaffney, the breeders of the hugely exciting Senorita Bonita. Already the Starspangledbanner filly has made headlines once this year when stealing the show at the [...]

Unless Thundering On can oblige for Joseph O'Brien, or perhaps Venetian Lace for Charlie Johnston, then there will be a familar name on the trophy for the 2026 Betfred Oaks, with three trainers who each have previous in the Epsom Classic being responsible for the remaining seven runners between them. Aidan O'Brien is triple-handed in [...]