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The Aga Khan Studs Prix Jacques le Marois, which takes place on August 16, has attracted 34 entries, including four from Japan.  Embroidery is Japan's leading four-year-old filly over a mile and heads that list. A winner of this season's G1 Victoria Mile, Japan's Spring Championship for fillies over the mile, the daughter of Admire Mars had already established herself among the country's best fillies in 2025 after winning both the G1 Oka Sho (Japanese 1,000 Guineas) in the spring and the G1 Shuka Sho in the autumn.  She adds...

Peter O'Brien could hardly have asked for a better launch pad for his new venture, with Group 3-winning mare La Mexicana topping the latest Inglis Digital Sale at A$920,000. The eight-year-old daughter of I Am Invincible was the first offering under the newly-formed Peter O'Brien Bloodstock banner and attracted strong interest before being secured by Blue Gum Farm and Suman Hedge (FBAA). The result comes as O'Brien prepares to depart Segenhoe Stud following its recent acquisition by Yulong, bringing to a close a long and successful association with the Hunter...

Australian native Henry Dwyer is set to ramp up his involvement in European racing having been granted a trainer's licence by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA). Dwyer is best known in this part of the world for his exploits with the high-class sprinter Asfoora (Flying Artie), a regular visitor to these shores in recent years. In 2024, Asfoora announced herself to European racing fans with a first top-level success in the King Charles III Stakes at Royal Ascot, while last year she followed a fifth-place finish in the corresponding race...

Haydock Park has announced that the raceday scheduled for Saturday 20th June and the Old Newton Cup Meeting, due to take place from 2nd to 4th July, have been cancelled while investigations continue into the cause of the hole that occurred during racing last month. The race programme scheduled for Saturday 20th June will now take place at Nottingham Racecourse. The Tom Grennan concert originally scheduled to take place after racing will go ahead at Haydock Park as planned. All ticket purchasers and hospitality guests will be contacted directly with...

Mícheál O'Brien of Creighmore Stables was in a daze after topping Tuesday's opening session of the Goffs Arkle Sale with a Goliath Du Berlais gelding out of a Muhtathir half-sister to the Grade 3-winning hurdler Raffles Sainte (Saint Des Saints). Offered as lot 201, he was knocked down to Gordon Elliott for €275,000. "It's a serious result for my farm in east Cork. It's not a big place and to turn that sort of money is a big help," said the consignor, who had pinhooked the top lot for €40,000....

5.40 Kempton, Novice, 2yo, f, 7fT PEQUENITA (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) is an intriguing debutante for her breeders Newsells Park Stud and the Andrew Balding stable, being the first foal out of the Prix du Muguet winner Sibila Spain (Frankel) who cost the operation €2 million at the 2023 Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale. Another newcomer of note is the late Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum's homebred Dark Reign (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), a Richard Hannon-trained relative of the Commonwealth Cup hero Inisherin and Group 3 winner King Of Cities. 7.00...

Thursday, Leopardstown, post time: 19:00, BALLYCORUS STAKES-G3, €42,000, 3yo/up, 7f 35yT Field: Audience (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}), Celestial Orbit (GB) (No Nay Never), East Hampton (GB) (Cracksman {GB}), Native Warrior (GB) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), Zodiac Bear (Ire) (Kodi Bear {Ire}), Wannabe Royal (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), Redemption Road (GB) (Without Parole {GB}), Oh Cecelia (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}). TDN Analysis: Some exposed types line up here, with the Prix Edmond Blanc runner-up Native Warrior possibly the one. Celestial Orbit, who took the Park Express in March, has a penalty to deal with...

Passing Glance, who was a dual Group winner for Andrew Balding and later became a prolific National Hunt stallion, has died at the age of 27. Successful in the G2 Oettingen-Rennen in 2003 and G3 Diomed Stakes the following year, Passing Glance also made headlines as a Flat stallion through the exploits of his second-crop son, Side Glance, whose victories included the G1 Mackinnon Stakes. "It is with a heavy heart that we have to announce the loss of Passing Glance," read a statement from Batsford Stud, home to the...

Björn Nilsson, who in April announced his decision to step down as Svensk Galopp's CEO, has been appointed the organisation's chairman, filling a post vacated by Anders Lilius in March. As a result of Nilsson assuming the chairmanship, his departure as CEO has been moved forward from July 31 and is now effective immediately. Nilsson will lead a board that includes Anders Jonsson and the re-elected Gisela Jardby, plus new members Peter Wallin, Magnus Alselind and David Crona. Gerhard Bley has resigned from the board but did so after the...

All 30 lots offered in Tuesday's Tattersalls Online Emirates Racing Authority Jebel Ali Online Sale sold for an aggregate of AED2,420,300 (around €571,000), led by Mawhoob (War Of Will), who was purchased for AED320,000 (€76,000) by Sayed Hashish. The third auction hosted by Tattersalls Online on behalf of the Emirates Racing Authority (ERA), the catalogue featured a draft consigned exclusively by His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's Jebel Ali Stables in Dubai. Over 90 registered bidders from 10 countries competed throughout the auction, resulting in a 100% clearance...

Defending champion Calandagan (Gleneagles) and Japanese star Masquerade Ball (Duramente) are in line for a rematch in the G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot, which will be run for a record £2 million this year. The pair met in the G1 Japan Cup last November, with Calandagan prevailing by a head at Tokyo on his way to being crowned Longines World's Best Racehorse for 2025. The Francis Graffard-trained five-year-old has already raced twice in 2026, first winning the G1 Dubai Sheema Classic at Meydan, before floundering...

Last year's G2 Prix Robert Papin winner Green Sense features among 16 initial entries for the Goffs London Sale, held in association with ULYSSIA and Fitzwilliam Sports, which will take place at Kensington Palace Gardens on the eve of Royal Ascot (Monday, June 15). Starman filly Green Sense, who also finished third in the G1 Phoenix Stakes as a two-year-old, holds a choice of engagements at Royal Ascot. The Joseph O'Brien trainee is entered in the G1 Coronation Stakes and also has the option of the G3 Jersey Stakes. Another...