Ascot

Ryan Moore returned after a 20-year break to win the Alistair Haggis Silver Saddle during Saturday's Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup. He led all riders with 47 points, and, alongside Dylan Browne McMonagle and team captain Saffie Osborne, secured the victory for Team Great Britain and Ireland with 81 points. Moore also won the Silver Saddle in his Shergar Cup debut in 2006. A three-time UK champion jockey, Moore finished in the first three in four of his five rides, winning the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Challenge on Asgard's...

It is the weekend of Ascot's Shergar Cup, where Saffie Osborne and Ryan Moore will be joined by the international galacticos Yutaka Take, Vincent Ho and Christophe Lemaire in what amounts to racing's mid-summer fun and games, and overall Saturday is light in terms of gravity. Haydock is back in action after the famous hole in the track saga and its G3 Rose Of Lancaster Stakes is the centrepiece. As a 10-furlong stepping stone to big autumn targets, it is held in affection by the purists who remember the likes...

Qatar Racing will succeed its parent company, QIPCO, as title sponsor of British Champions Day, the single most valuable day in the British racing calendar with total prize-money of £4.35 million. QIPCO announced earlier this year an extension of their support of British horse racing's flagship raceday until 2028. This new agreement will see the headline sponsorship switch to become Qatar Racing British Champions Day, including individual sponsorship of all seven races. Announcing the new arrangement, HH Sheikh Fahad Al Thani paid tribute to his family's longstanding commitment to the...

ASCOT, UK -- It was a day that rippled with history, from the banners strung around the course bearing the names of King George greats to the stable which provided this year's winner. It has been 55 years since Mill Reef won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes - and even longer since Supreme Court won the inaugural running for former Kingsclere trainer Even Williams in 1951. Poignantly, in a year which began with the passing of Mill Reef's trainer Ian Balding, Kalpana has brought Kingsclere full circle...

Outsprinted by Calandagan (Gleneagles) in 2025, Juddmonte's Kalpana (Study Of Man) outstayed the French superstar this time to carry off a stellar renewal of Ascot's G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Living up to its billing, Saturday's edition was strongly-run as expected and it was the mare who proved the strongest of the best with an emphatic success in this GI Breeders' Cup Turf "Win and You're In". "She was impressive--she always improves run-to-run as the year goes on and she's a special mare," jockey Colin Keane said...

In the afternoon's first clash of the generations at Ascot, it was 1-0 to the older fillies and mares with Peter Harris's Kon Tiki (Night Of Thunder) prevailing in Saturday's G3 Longines Valiant Stakes. While all the focus was on Shadwell's unlucky Coronation Stakes runner-up Touleen (Lope De Vega), the fact is that Kon Tiki had run an almost identical time to the three-year-old despite being only fourth in a stronger-run Duke Of Cambridge over the same course and distance at the Royal meeting. Blue Bolt had shown how solid...

They've come a long way, from Tokyo via Alaska and Amsterdam, but Masquerade Ball and Wurttemberg already look right at home on Newmarket Heath as the countdown continues towards their first appearance on a British racecourse.  That this Saturday's G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes is the race of the season so far is beyond dispute. Ascot's premier weight-for-age contest - which from next year will be run for a record £2.5 million - has not only attracted these two stars from the east but is also set...

Nick Smith, Director of Racing and Public Affairs at Ascot Racecourse, has heralded the "significant momentum" behind the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, with a top-class edition in prospect on Saturday and it being announced that the midsummer highlight will be worth £2.5 million from 2027. Currently, the King George shares top spot with the Derby among the richest races staged on British soil, with Saturday's Group 1 feature set to offer total prize-money of £2 million for the first time, having been run for £1.5 million when...

Trainer Michael O'Callaghan has opened up about the emotion surrounding the Goodwood success of The Harv (Ten Sovereigns), named in honour of his late friend and business partner John Fleming, who helped source the Royal Ascot-bound juvenile merely hours before his untimely death back in April.  The Harv was heavily-punted into 5-6 favouritism before making a winning debut in a six-furlong novice on Sunday. That performance convinced his trainer that the colt was up to running in the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot, for which he is a general 33-1...

The Racecourse Association insists it remains "committed to being a positive advocate for the sport" following Ascot's announcement it intends to leave the organisation at the end of the year. Ascot, Goodwood, The Jockey Club, Newbury and York collectively wrote to the RCA in March calling for an "urgent review" of its governance to support industry change requesting a proposal for reform by the end of April. Objectives that were set out aimed at ensuring the board and voting representation is balanced and credible, that significant views from key racecourses...

Ascot Racecourse is set to leave the Racecourse Association (RCA) at the end of the year, due to the fact that "sufficient progress has not been made" to address concerns about the organisation's governance structure. In March, following Lord Allen's resignation as chair of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) and the failure to establish an independent BHA Board, a joint-statement was released by the Jockey Club and four large independent racecourses - Ascot, Goodwood, Newbury and York - which called for an urgent review of the governance structure at the...

Of the first three from last year's Middle Park to line up in Friday's G3 Commonwealth Cup Trial, David Armstrong's Coppull (Bated Breath) was the least-expected in the market but came back strongest to turn that form around. Smartly away under Rossa Ryan in the course-and-distance prep for Royal Ascot's three-year-old sprint feature, the 7-2 shot who had won the Richmond at Goodwood and been third in the Coventry here as well as the Middle Park surged away from the main pack passing two out and was in front soon...