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Another edition of the Dubai Future Champions Festival from Newmarket concludes on Saturday, 12 October with the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes. This is one of the top juvenile races of the entire calendar and always shapes the markets for the following season’s Classics. Supporting this are a couple of other trials for young horses hoping …

The two-day meeting that is the Chepstow Jump Season Opener concludes in South Wales on Saturday, 12 October with a seven-race card. Handicaps dominate here with the Silver Trophy Handicap Hurdle acting as the feature contest. Novice chasers go for the Robert Mottram Memorial Trophy in Listed action. Other handicaps you can take a punt …

The Dubai Future Champions Festival kicks off at Newmarket on Friday, 11 October with Group 1 action courtesy of the Fillies’ Mile. As this two-day meeting’s name suggests, it is largely centred on horses with their careers in front of them. That makes it tricky for punters when placing wagers on horse racing betting sites, …

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 …