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The biggest races on the Flat at Town Moor take place on the Doncaster St Leger Festival 2025 day 3 card on Saturday, 13 September. Everything builds to the oldest of the five British Classics at the Yorkshire track, but the supporting races aren’t too shabby either. A couple of Group 2s in the build-up …

More Group 2 action headlines the Doncaster St Leger Festival 2025 day 2 card on Town Moor on Friday, 12 September. It’s the Flying Childers Stakes for juvenile sprinters, plus one of the oldest races in the calendar in the long-distance Doncaster Cup. Supporting those Pattern races from the Yorkshire track are a couple of …

The Doncaster St Leger Festival 2025 day 1 card has a lot of juvenile races on it, but none more so than the Group 2 May Hill Stakes for fillies. Alongside some nursery handicaps and a valuable Sales race, the opening day of the big meeting on Town Moor also includes another Pattern event. That …

The St Leger of 2025 has just seven runners from four different stables gunning for the £396,970 first prize at Doncaster on Saturday, 13 September. More than half the field taking to the Town Moor track in Yorkshire come over from Ireland for a shot at fifth and final British Classic. Aidan O’Brien has eight …

The Sunday Series at York races is back on 7 September as the Knavesmire’s penultimate fixture of the season before the winter break. Headlining the card is a Listed 6f event in the Garrowby Stakes, supported by the Sky Bet Sprint Handicap over the extended 5f. Conditions on the track could well be softer than …

Moving Arc Trials Day in 2025 forward by a week to Sunday, 7 September has some method behind it. A full month before Europe’s richest horse race gives those putting their credentials on the line at Longchamp in Paris extra time to recover from their prep runs. These are the Prix Foy for older horses, …

Sussex Stakes second and third Rosallion and Henri Matisse are among eight Anglo-Irish raiders travelling across the Channel for the €800,000 Group 1 Prix du Moulin over a mile at Longchamp in Paris on Sunday, 7 September. It’s the big race outside of the official Arc Trials that also take place on this card. British …

The Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup of 2025 plays out against a backdrop of wet weather in the British Isles in the build-up to it. This corner of Merseyside seems to have been spared the midweek downpours that have hit elsewhere, however. Rain remains in the forecast, so the going could turn soft as 17 …

August is a busy month for the Curragh races and it culminates in a card with three Group 3s and the Irish Cambridgeshire Premier Handicap on it at the home of the Flat in the Emerald Isle this Saturday. If you look closely, there’s even the odd British raider coming over. Before thoughts turn to …

Four Sandown races form the bulk of ITV Racing coverage on Saturday, 30 August with the Group 3 Atalanta Stakes for fillies and mares over a mile, plus the juveniles only Solario Stakes acting as co-features. The latter event from the Esher venue produced this season’s leading miler Field Of Gold 12 months ago. Seven …