Blog

A bumper ITV Racing broadcast on Saturday, 12th July features action from Ascot, Newmarket and York. The July Festival reaches its climax at Headquarters with the Group 1 July Cup the headline event. Down in Berkshire, meanwhile, the Group 2 Summer Mile takes centre stage. Up on the Knavesmire, where course officials have relaxed the …

Group 1 action headlines Newmarket July Festival day 2 on Friday, 11th July with the Tattersalls Falmouth Stakes for fillies and mares. This top-level race over the Bunbury Mile has lots of handicaps in and around it. Also on the supporting card from Headquarters on the middle day of this three-day meeting is the juvenile …

Two Group 2 races take place at Newmarket as the July Festival day 1 card gets underway at the Headquarters of the British Flat on Thursday, 10th July. These are the July Stakes for juvenile colts and geldings and the Princess Of Wales’s Stakes over a mile-and-a-half. Supporting the action from the July Course in …

Anglo-Irish representation in the 1,400m Group 1 Prix Jean Prat of 2025 at Deauville on Sunday, 6 July largely surrounds talented three-year-olds trying to get their careers back on track. Coolmore, Godolphin and Juddmonte all have raiders on the Normandy Coast. Charlie Appleby’s Dewhurst Stakes hero Shadow Of Light goes in search of softer ground …

Another small field for the Sandown Coral Eclipse of 2025 means six runners in the 1m 2f Group 1 highlight on Saturday, 5 July. Ombudsman, an impressive winner of the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes during Royal Ascot aims to double up despite a swift turnaround. The Eclipse, a historic race between different generations, continues to …

Looking over Royal Ascot day 5 for 2025, the concluding card to this supreme horse racing gala on Saturday, 21 June brings the curtain down on another absorbing edition. There is Group 1 action on the final day, plus other pattern races and tricky handicaps. Headlining proceedings is the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes for …

On the penultimate day of Royal Ascot, the King Edward VII Stakes of 2025 acts as a chief supporting race. Although there are two Group 1s on the Friday, 20 June card, this Group 2 test over a mile-and-a-half for three-year-old colts and geldings has its own place in history. Known from its early history …

The great thing about Royal Ascot day 4 in 2025 is there are two Group 1s on the card. Supporting the Commonwealth Cup and Coronation Stakes on Friday, 20 June are the usual mix of other pattern races and fiendishly tricky handicaps. It all starts with the Group 3 Albany Stakes for juvenile fillies. After …

As the curtain comes down on another Royal Ascot, the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes of 2025 is the last Group 1 of the meeting. This sprint race over six furlongs and open to older horses attracts runners from as far away as Japan for a tilt at the big prize money. Some 16 runners …

Thursday, 19 June is Royal Ascot day 3 this year and the Gold Cup headlines another competitive card of first-class Flat racing from Berkshire. It marks the midway point of this iconic meeting with the long-distance Group 1 on top. Besides the Ascot Gold Cup of 2025, there are two Group 2s supporting it and …