Saturday 19 October Ascot (Inner) 4.00: Qipco Champion Stakes (British Champions Middle Distance) (Group 1) (3yo+) 1m2f (ITV) Paddy Power odds 19 October, 12.10 Magical 4yo filly Paddy Power odds 13/8 11/8 Trainer Aiden...
Saturday 19 October Ascot 1.35: Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes (Group 1) (3yo+) 6f (ITV4) Trainers James Fanshawe has trained two winners of the Sprint, whilst Charlie Hills, Dean Ivory, Aiden O’Brien and Richard...
It was one the Secret Racegoer’s more challenging assignments. Report back from Ascot’s two-day Beer Festival. Beer! Two days! A strategy, not to say self control, would be required. First, this was not something...
We’re now just weeks away from another key stage in the life of the Tote. Just under a year ago a much-needed agreement was reached between the Britbet racecourse consortium to work with the...
There was a lot resting on the second day of Irish Champion’s Weekend for the Curragh. They’d had a bad press after the Irish Derby, not unreasonably so, given long queues at inadequate numbers...
The Secret Racegoer so much wanted to enjoy a visit to Palace House, the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art, just off Newmarket Hight Street. Indeed, there was much to enjoy, but...
We’ve seen the last of Enable, on these shores anyway. There’s now just a hop across the channel to attempt a record-breaking third win in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. It wouldn’t be...
Ebor Handicap Sky Bet Ebor Handicap (Heritage Handicap) (4yo+) 1m6f Ebor is the shortened form of Eboracum, the Roman name for York and the earliest known record of Eboracum dates from around 100AD, about...
Even if Stradivarius remains in training next year, there wont be a third £1m stayers bonus to be won – the backers, Weatherbys-Hamilton, who put up the prize if four designated races were won...
York has so much to offer. The Shambles, the Jorvic Viking Centre, the Minster, the Castle, the National Railway Museum and last, but not least, the Racecourse. They’ve been racing on what was a swamp,...
