The favourite for the Galway Plate of 2025 knows a thing or two about landing big handicaps at Ballybrit. Nurburgring chases his own slice of horse racing history at the track on Wednesday, 30 July as he bids to complete a famous double. Winning the Galway Hurdle, then returning to Ballybrit the following season and …
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During Glorious Goodwood 2025 day 2, we will see the star attraction of the entire meeting when Juddmonte’s Field Of Gold steps into open company for the first time in the Sussex Stakes on Wednesday, 30 July. He’s one of seven declared for the feature mile race at the Qatar Goodwood Festival. Field Of Gold, …
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Opening Glorious Goodwood 2025 on day 1 of the five-day Festival fixture on the Sussex Downs is a competitive card packed full of hot handicaps and Group action. Headlining proceedings is the Goodwood Cup over two miles as the staying division looks to crown a new champion. Supporting races from this iconic racing venue include …
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The King George Weekend at Ascot races takes place on Friday, 25 and Saturday, 26 July this year. A two-day fixture that always has a loaded card around the Group 1 feature contest over a mile-and-a-half in Berkshire ensures plenty of interest in the meeting. Friday is a low-key beginning with the Listed Pat Eddery …
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More variety on show through ITV Racing and their Saturday, 19 July broadcast with action across both codes from Newbury, Market Rasen and the Curragh. Headlining the action is the Group 1 Irish Oaks for three-year-olds fillies. More competitive races lie away from the Emerald Isle of when the cameras aren’t rolling, though. Newbury has …
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The Grand Prix de Paris of 2025 is the closest thing France has to the Epsom Derby since their own premier Classic, the Prix du Jockey Club, shortened to 2,100m. It’s the full mile-and-a-half (2,400m) distance for half-a-dozen runners heading to Longchamp on Sunday, 13th July. Given the hot temperatures across Europe right now and …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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