Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic 2025
Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic 2025 The 2025 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic went to Japan. Forever Young crowned a phenomenal 2025 campaign with a superb victory, racing on the front end under Ryusei Sakai before kicking for glory off the home turn. Having finished 3rd in the race 12-months ago he certainly wasn’t a shock winner […]
Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Juvenile presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance “Ted Noffey” There is no doubt now about who the most promising 2-year-old in the US will be this year. Ted Noffey is the favourite for the Kentucky Derby after his success in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Friday afternoon at Del Mar and deserves to […]
Breeders’ Cup Future Stars Friday
Breeders’ Cup Future Stars Friday “The Eye-Catchers” There will be a lot of column inches and podcast minutes filled with discussion about the winners of the races on Future Stars Friday at the Breeders’ Cup, but what about the horses that chased them home? Here are my notes on some of the horses that didn’t […]
Breeders Cup 2025 Preview
Breeders’ Cup 2025 The Breeders’ Cup is billed as the World Championships of our great sport and this year looks set to live up to that title. There are so many great races across the 2 days that it would be an impossible task to analyse every race in detail, but having looked through the […]
William Hill Futurity Trophy Stakes (G1)
William Hill Futurity Trophy Stakes (G1) “Hawk Mountain” In attritional conditions at Doncaster on Saturday, Aidan O’Brien landed his 12th Futurity Trophy. Given that he trained the first 3 in the betting and the only conceivable danger didn’t appear to handle the conditions at all, that is not an overly surprising result. Following this result, […]
Qipco British Champion Stakes – Calandagan
Qipco British Champion Stakes “Calandagan” There has been lots of debate over who is the World’s best racehorse. I don’t want to get into the realms of trying to settle that debate here. Ka Ying Rising was absolutely outstanding in the Everest on Saturday, Sovereignty has produced some incredible displays on the dirt in the […]
Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup
Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup “Trawlerman” There have been plenty of stars in the Staying division and each of them have had that one season where they were simply unbeatable. For Trawlerman, that season has come in 2025. Whilst many will point to the fact that this performance on Saturday was perhaps below his […]
Qipco British Champions Day 2025
QIPCO british Champions Day 2025 The Flat season has reached its climax and we head to Ascot for Qipco British Champions Day this Saturday to celebrate another fantastic season. All of the sectional times, stride data and performance metrics from Ascot will be available through Total Performance Data this weekend. Here are some of the […]
DragonBet Persian War Novices Hurdle
DragonBet Persian War Novices’ Hurdle (G2) “Sticktotheplan takes the Persian War” Olly Murphy and the Not One But Two partners were immediately rewarded for their Summer acquisition of Sticktotheplan, a 5-year-old son of Great Pretender, as he ran out a 4 length winner of the Grade 2 Persian War Novices’ hurdle on the opening day […]
Gran Premio Selección (G1)
Gran Premio Selección (G1) Palermo 11th October 2025 This was a 3rd Grade 1 success for the Jose Cristobal Blanco trained Charm, who galloped her way to a relatively comfortable success in the Gran Premio Selección at Palermo on Saturday. Having already won the Gran Premio Estrellas and the Gran Premio de Potrancas at San […]