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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 …

All eyes in the horse racing world turn to York on Wednesday, 20 August for the Ebor Festival 2025 day 1 card that contains the best race on turf in the world last season. The valuable Juddmonte International Stakes over a slightly-extended mile-and-a-quarter headlines the opening card of the Knavesmire track’s major meeting. Group races …

The €1,200,000 Group 1 Prix Jacques Le Marois in 2025 isn’t just the familiar cross-Channel battle between the UK, Ireland and France on the Normandy Coast. Deauville’s premier Straight Mile race also contains raiders from Japan among 11 runners on Sunday, 17 August. A rather thin home team by comparison sees just two in the …

As the summer continues apace, there’s more from the Curragh and Newbury races on respective sides of the Irish Sea on Saturday, 16 August. In the Emerald Isle, the Group 3 Royal Whip Stakes supported by the official Irish St Leger Trial takes centre stage, while in Berkshire the Group 2 Hungerford Stakes for seven-furlong …

The Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest of 2025 at Deauville sees global owner-breeders Godolphin launch a three-pronged attack on the race over a unique 1,300m distance on Sunday, 10 August. Their blue silks figure most in the field of 11 declared on the Normandy Coast. Charlie Appleby appears hellbent on reinventing Dewhurst Stakes hero …

On one of the less vaunted summer Saturdays in the British and Irish racing calendar, punters can look forward to Group action from Haydock Park, Newmarket and the Curragh on 9 August. Four Pattern races take place across these three venues on this day. Starting on Merseyside with the Listed mile Dick Hern Stakes for fillies …

Deauville is the site of hugely exciting German import Matilda for her French debut as she tackles her elders in the Group 1 Prix Rotschild of 2025 for new trainer Francis-Henri Graffard on Sunday, 3 August. Purchased by Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm operation after beating the boys in the German 2000 Guineas, big things are …

Last but not least from Glorious Goodwood 2025 is a day 5 card that contains the Stewards’ Cup and Summer Handicap. Group races from the Sussex Downs track on Saturday, 2 August see fillies and mares tackle the Lillie Langtry Stakes and older middle-distance horses run in the Glorious Stakes. As the curtain falls on …