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Group winner Rashabar has been retired from racing and connections will now seek a spot at stud for the four-year-old. The Manton Thoroughbreds runner secured a maiden victory with Billy Loughnane aboard in the G2 Coventry Stakes in June of 2024, and would go on to place in that season's G1 Prix Morny and G1 Pri Jean-Luc Lagardere. Second in the G3 Greenham Stakes, he ran fourth in the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas and filled that position again in the G1 St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot. Later that...

Silvestre de Sousa has ridden his 2,000th winner in Britain with the success of Neyva's Angel (Harry Angel) at Yarmouth on Thursday. De Sousa has been champion jockey three times there in 2015, 2017 and 2018. Currently 45, De Sousa had a long association with Mark Johnston, and was a retained rider for Godolphin from 2012-2015 prior to riding as number one jockey for King Power Racing. Other riders to have ridden at least 2000 winners in Britain include Ryan Moore, Luke Morris, Jim Crowley, Jamie Spencer and William Buick....

A contentious G1 Prince Of Wales's Stakes is in the cards at Royal Ascot next week, as nine horses have stood their ground, among them John and Thady Gosden trainee Ombudsman (Night Of Thunder). Successful in this race last term, the Godolphin colt faces G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe hero Daryz (Sea The Stars) and multiple Group 1 scorer Minnie Hauk (Frankel) among others. Ascot's dual G1 British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes heroine Kalpana (Study Of Man) is back, as is fellow top-level scorer Almaqam (Lope De Vega)....

James McDonald will once again ride second string for Wathnan Racing during the Royal Ascot meeting next week. The Kiwi-born McDonald earned his fifth Royal Ascot winner aboard Wathnan's Crimson Advocate (Nyquist) in last year's G2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes. Overall, the Wathnan colours were first past the post five times during the 2025 edition of Royal Ascot. "We've got a young fellow from New Zealand who's not too bad called James McDonald on the teamsheet," said Wathnan's racing adviser Richard Brown when asked about riding plans in races where...

by TTR AusNZ/Dane McLeod The Inglis Bull Ring, a new concept aimed at attracting high-end private sales, was launched by Inglis on Thursday. The new platform has been designed as a one-horse, private-style online sale, mirroring the way many high-value private deals are traditionally conducted behind closed doors, but now facilitated within the Inglis framework. "In real simple terms, I suppose I could probably sum it up in one line," said Inglis Digital business manager Nick Melmeth. "It's a product that allows high end stock to be traded online in...

There's a change to the usual format this week as we focus on the crème de la crème of the two-year-olds, looking forward to some significant clashes in store at Royal Ascot next week. Timeform's highest-rated juvenile heading into Royal Ascot is the unbeaten G3 Marble Hill Stakes hero Great Barrier Reef (No Nay Never), who appears to have everything that you could wish to find in a potential two-year-old winner at this meeting. For a start, Great Barrier Reef is by No Nay Never, the most prolific sire of...

Eleven fillies will head postward for Sunday's G1 Prix de Diane Longines at Chantilly after declarations were confirmed Thursday morning. Ryan Moore is set to partner G1 Prix Marcel Boussac and G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches heroine, and likely favourite, Diamond Necklace (St Mark's Basilica), who has drawn stall three. Her Aidan O'Brien stablemate Moments Of Joy (Justify) will exit stall eight under Wayne Lordan. "Everything has gone well with Diamond Necklace since she won the French Guineas and I've been very happy with her," O'Brien commented, "The plan was...

A total of six lots made €200,000 or more during the second day of the Goffs Arkle Sale Part 1, and top of the heap was Noosa Sport (No Risk At All). The three-year-old filly sold to Gordon Elliott Racing for €240,000. Consigned by Liss House, lot 320 is a full-sister to G3 Prix Romati Chase heroine Geelong Sport (No Risk At All) and a half-sister to G1 Prix Maurice Gillois Chase victor Leader Sport (Nirvana Du Berlais). The day's highest priced gelding was Okekoko (Cokoriko) (lot 350) who went...

4.40 Newbury, Novice, 3yo, f, 9fT MANAAR (IRE) (St Mark's Basilica {Fr}) is an intriguing debutante for Shadwell and William Haggas, being a half-sister to the stable's four-times Group 1 winner Dubai Honour (Pride Of Dubai). A 370,000gns Tattersalls October Book 1 purchase, she faces a clutch of bluebloods including the Thoroughbred Racing Corporation's Leicester winner Miss Scott (Ire) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}), a John and Thady Gosden-trained half-sister to the smart fillies Grand Stars (Sea The Stars) and Catalina Delcarpio (Lope De Vega) who was a 650,000gns purchase also...

Group winner The Lion In Winter was euthanised following a training accident at Ballydoyle, The Sun reported on Wednesday evening. The former Derby favourite, set to run in next Tuesday's G1 Queen Anne Stakes, was four. By Sea The Stars, the Aidan O'Brien trainee was undefeated in two starts as a juvenile, taking the G3 Acomb Stakes. At three, the 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' ran third in the G1 Prix Jean Prat, filled the same spot in the G1 Prix Moulin, went one better in the G1 Queen...

Wesley Ward has been the greatest international supporter of Royal Ascot in recent years and the American trainer has dispatched a team of seven runners in a bid to extend his record at the meeting of 12 wins to date. The septet includes G1 Commonwealth Cup contender Outfielder (Speightstown), an imposing individual who was fourth in last season's G1 Prix Morny and has picked up a pair of black-type wins at Turfway Park and Churchill Downs this year. Outfielder and Ez Tin, the Golden Pal filly who runs in the...

"His work has undoubtedly got stronger" is undoubtedly a statement that rival trainers would not wish to hear from George Boughey when it comes to Bow Echo. The Irish and French champion trainers Aidan O'Brien and Francis Graffard won't be running scared as such, but despite the fact they will be bringing their own Guineas winners Gstaad (Starspangledbanner) and Rayif (Sea The Moon) to Royal Ascot, Boughey's scintillating son of Night Of Thunder is plainly the one to beat in the clash of the Classic colts. The unbeaten Bow Echo...