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The Chepstow Jump Season Opener is a two-day meeting that acts at the traditional curtain-raiser for the core part of the National Hunt season in horse racing. It begins with an eight-race card on Friday, 11 October in South Wales. Headlining the opening day is the Grade 2 Persian War Novices’ Hurdle that often produces …

The Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes over the Rowley Mile is set to bring the curtain down on the career of Inspiral. Trained locally in Newmarket by John & Thady Gosden, Cheveley Park Stud’s five-year-old mare faces five rivals on the track as she seeks successive wins in the race. Competition for Inspiral includes Nashwa …

Arc Weekend in Paris kicks off in style with horse racing fans treated two Group 1s at Longchamp on Saturday, 5 October this year. These are the Prix du Cadran for stayers featuring the all-conquering Kyprios and the Prix Royallieu for fillies and mares. The supporting card on the opening day of this valuable meeting …

Any horse racing event worth €5,000,000 is bound to attract classy colts and fillies, and the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe of 2024 promises to be a cracker. The Hippodrome de Longchamp situated within the Bois de Boulogne in Paris is the home of Europe’s richest thoroughbred Flat race. A final field of 16 …

Jim Goldie trains his horses at Uplawmoor some 25 miles north of Ayr Racecourse, home of the Western Meeting and the Ayr Gold Cup. So oversubscribed in terms of entries was this year’s edition of the 6f Heritage Handicap that, during penultimate declarations, over 100 runners couldn’t even get into the Silver or Bonze Cup …

The 6f Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup still had 22 runners at penultimate declarations and only 17 can line-up in the feature contest on Merseyside come Saturday, 7 September. Yorkshire-based trainers Kevin Ryan and Karl Burke both hold strong hands in the £400,000 contest. Ryan trains overlooking the Vale of York from a yard and …

Last year’s beaten Melbourne Cup favourite Vauban races on home soil for the first time in almost 12 months in the 1m 6f Group 2 Curragh Cup. This Flat staying contest, the chief supporting race on the Saturday of Irish Oaks Weekend, is one missing from Willie Mullins’ CV. All roads lead back Down Under …

Aidan O’Brien has a record seven wins in the Juddmonte Irish Oaks and three of the 13 fillies declared for this year’s edition. Chief among those is Royal Ascot winner Port Fairy out to land the Curragh Classic for her Ballydoyle and Coolmore connections. Injury-enforced retirement for Ezeliya leaves the 1m 4f Group 1 feature …

It’s farewell for Mo Salah as he leaves Liverpool for Real Madrid, with Heung-Min Son signing for Atletico Madrid and plenty of other big names in the Premier League leaving for various European clubs. There will be some monumental transfers and even more big-named players leaving the Premier League this summer including Bernardo Silva, Alexander …

  Alan Shearer has been revealed as the most negative pundit towards the England national team during the ongoing Euro 2024 tournament. Analysts at FairBettingSites have scraped the social media profiles of the top 10  English ex-player pundits currently commentating on the Euros. To find which pundit has been the most negative online towards the …