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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 …

Even more valuable than the Morny at Deauville this weekend is the €480,000 Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet for fillies and mares over 2,000m. Roughly a mile-and-a-quarter, this feature contest on Sunday, 24 August has eight females gunning for the lion’s share of the prize money in Normandy. Godolphin send Cinderella’s Dream over and across …

The Group 1 Prix Morny over 1,200m at Deauville is always an informative race for two-year-olds. This season’s renewal of the €420,000 juvenile contest looks exceptional as half-a-dozen talented youngsters take to the track on the Normandy Coast on Sunday, 24 August. Aidan O’Brien confirmed both of his Royal Ascot winners in True Love and …

Last but by no means least on the Knavesmire this week is the Ebor Festival 2025 day 4 card that contains a piece of horse racing history. For the first time ever in the UK, there is a Group 1 event for older thoroughbreds over seven furlong as the City Of York Stakes attains that …

Fans of horse racing sprints will flock to the Knavesmire as the York Ebor Festival 2025 day 3 card has the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes headlining it on Friday, 22 August. This division is wide-open and 17 speedsters including some juvenile fillies run in the feature all-aged race. The younger a horse is, then more …

Ladies Day at York on Thursday, 21 August has the Ebor Festival 2025 day 2 card taking place on it. The headline act is Cheshire, Epsom and Irish Oaks heroine Minnie Hauk goes for the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks over a mile-and-a-half. Opposition is sadly running scared from the Aidan O’Brien wonder-filly as she faces …