Racing

Peddlers Cross stays on course for Festival

Friday, 18 February 2011

Sue Montgomery: The stage may have been local rep rather than the West End, but the performance lacked nothing in either execution or presentation.

Horses at Newbury were electrocuted

Thursday, 17 February 2011

Accidental electrocution was to blame for the deaths of two horses in the paddock at Newbury last Saturday, an investigation has found.

Peddlers Cross tests Hurdle hopes

Thursday, 17 February 2011

The horse most worthy of note in the history of Kelso so far may well be the one carrying Bonnie Prince Charlie as he rode through in 1745, en route to England during the ill-fated Jacobite rising. His steed cast a shoe, which can still be seen embedded in the cobbles in Roxburgh Street, and less than six months later the rebellion was crushed and Charles Edward Stuart in exile.

McCoy cool on Don't Push It for Aintree repeat

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Sue Montgomery: Much as he loves horses, Tony McCoy will be quite prepared to turn his back on the one who has brought him, if not the most fortune, certainly the most fame.

Commander in place for Festival

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

There was welcome positive news for the racing faithful yesterday, in the form of a sparkling workout in the morning sunshine at Warwick by the Cheltenham Gold Cup favourite Imperial Commander. It was the first racecourse sighting of the reigning Cheltenham king since he won at Haydock in November, a victory achieved at the cost of a gashed foreleg.

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Newbury was appalling but the sport has no case to answer

Monday, 14 February 2011

Chris McGrath: It is the coldest comfort imaginable, but the community shaken by the macabre events at Newbury on Saturday could not be better equipped to place them in due perspective.

Kempes glory amid the gore

Sunday, 13 February 2011

Sue Montgomery: The grimly bizarre events yesterday at Newbury, where racing was abandoned on safety grounds after two horses were fatally electrocuted in the parade ring before the first race, shifted the sporting focus.

Two racehorses electrocuted in parade ring

Sunday, 13 February 2011

Newbury meeting abandoned after hurdlers collapse and die

Chris McGrath: Sweet My Lord may leave punters singing Mullins' praises across the Irish Sea

Saturday, 12 February 2011

Inside Track

A Media Luz shows up in more flattering light

Friday, 11 February 2011

Sue Montgomery: There is a world of difference between the midsummer elegance of French Oaks day at Chantilly and a wet winter afternoon's jumping in the Cambridgeshire mud.