Thursday, Sandown, post time: 19:12, THE STAR SPORTS BRIGADIER GERARD STAKES-G3, £95,000, 4yo/up, 9f 209yT Field: Ombudsman (Ire) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}), Almeric (GB) (Study Of Man {Ire}), Arabian Light (Kingman), Bedouin Prince (Ire) (Ghaiyyath {Ire}), Gethin (Ire) (Ghaiyyath {Ire}), Wimbledon Hawkeye (GB) (Kameko). TDN Analysis: Not razor-sharp and burdened with a seven-pound penalty, Ombudsman [...]

Saturday, Meydan, UAE, post time: 20:35, AL MAKTOUM CLASSIC-G2, AED1,700,000, 4yo/up & SH 3yo, 2000m Field: Heart Of Honor (GB) (Honor A.P.), Mendelssohn Bay (Mendelssohn), Meydaan (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), Walk Of Stars (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), Generous Tipper (Street Sense), Tap Leader (Tapiture), Masmak (Vino Rosso), Flying Honours (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), Antrim (GB) (Dubawi [...]

Saturday, King Abdulaziz (Riyadh), Saudi Arabia, post time: 20:40, SAUDI CUP-G1, $20,000,000, NH/SH4yo/up, 1800m Field: Banishing (Ghostzapper), Bishops Bay (Uncle Mo), Forever Young (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}), Haqeet (Arrogate), Luxor Cafe (American Pharoah), Mhally (GB) (Sergei Prokofiev), Nevada Beach (Omaha Beach), Nysos (Nyquist), Rattle N Roll (Connect), Star Of Wonder (Uncle Mo), Sunrise Zipangu (Jpn) [...]

by Tom Frary and Brian Sheerin Joseph O'Brien has nominated Group 2 scorer Green Sense (Starman) as being the best of his five-pronged attack on Saturday's Goffs Million but admitted his bid for back-to-back renewals of the lucrative prize will not be easy and labelled this year's line-up the strongest he has ever seen.  Dylan [...]

Thursday, Leopardstown, post time: 18:23, BAHRAIN TURF CLUB DESMOND STAKES-G3, €36,000, 3yo/up, 8fT Field: Chicago Critic (GB) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}), Johan (GB) (Zoffany {Ire}), Lord Massusus (Ire) (Markaz {Ire}), Mutasarref (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}), Dance Night Andday (Ire) (Buratino {Ire}), Jancis (Ire) (Tamayuz {GB}), Alakazi (Fr) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}). TDN Verdict: Course specialist Mutasarref should [...]

Valdi de Souza, a popular figure within the breeze-up community who died at the age of 49 following a freak accident at work, will be remembered at Cork on Friday, July 25 when a race will be run in his memory.  De Souza rode over a couple of hundred winners as a professional jockey in [...]

Group 1 winner Laws Of Indices (Ire) (Power {Ire}) has returned home to Ireland and will stand at Kiltown Stud this year. Best known for landing the G1 Prix Jean Prat when in the care of Curragh-based trainer Ken Condon, Laws Of Indices showed high-class form as a juvenile, beating Lucky Vega (Ire) in the [...]

A Gofundme fundraiser for the family of the late Australian jockey Dean Holland was launched within 24 hours of the jockey's death and, at the time of writing, it has raised over A$500,000 for Holland's wife Lucy, and their four children. The page was created by Tony Ottobre in Victoria, who made a personal donation [...]

Kinross (GB) (Kingman {GB}) is to be targeted at the July Cup at Newmarket as Ralph Beckett's dual Group 1 winner bids to provide Frankie Dettori with a breakthrough victory in the summer highlight.  The July Cup is one of the few top races in Europe that is missing from Dettori's CV, but last season's [...]

   Europe's greatest weight-for-age race, the 1 1/2-mile G1 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe boasts a full field of 20 for the 2022 edition. Here are the picks from TDN Europe. Good luck! Onesto: I love this little horse, he's a real trier as well as being a potential stayer with speed, and he's [...]

By Emma Berry & Alayna Cullen NEWMARKET, UK—Any doubts as to the participation of some of the leading buyers at Tattersalls's flagship October Sale were largely dispelled as Book 1 got underway on Tuesday with four seven-figure lots and the most expensive yearling sold in Europe or North America this year. That honour went to [...]

Fresh from a break having garnered the immensely valuable Longines Turf H. at Riyadh Feb. 29, George Strawbridge's Call the Wind (GB) (Frankel {GB}) managed to continue the winning sequence in Sunday's G3 Prix de Barbeville at Deauville and book a potential trip to Royal Ascot. Prior to his Saudi venture, the homebred had been [...]