Battaash is without doubt one of the fastest five-furlong horses of recent decades and will inevitably start at cramped odds as he attempts to win the Nunthorpe Stakes for the second year running at York on Friday. Like many top sprinters, though, he often ends up beating much the same […]
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‘Edgbaston can host a test pilot’: Warwickshire insist they can welcome 8,000 fans to Twenty20 finals day in October at only a week’s notice from the government Prime Minister Boris Johnson could name plans for the return of spectators soon Warwickshire say they can host 8,000 people for October’s Twenty20 […]
Ascot insisted on Thursday it has not given up hope of welcoming a crowd to its Champions Day fixture on 17 October, despite a huge cut in the prize fund for the most valuable afternoon of racing in the British calendar. Last year’s £4.2m in prize money over six races, […]
JEFF POWELL: As Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren make decent fists of world class boxing in the Covid era… locking the people out from events when they are still free to go to the pub is a form of madness Sport has resumed but without the presence of spectators inside […]
Three-time champion jockey Stan Mellor, the first jump jockey to ride 1,000 winners, has died aged 83 Mellor was one of the few riders to triumph in a race against Arkle He guided Stalbridge Colonist to victory in the 1966 Hennessy Gold Cup Three-time champion jockey was awarded an MBE […]
Stan Mellor, whose death was announced on Saturday at the age of 83, was Britain’s champion National Hunt jockey three times, the first rider to reach 1,000 jumps winners and also a successful trainer later in his career. He may be best remembered, though, as the jockey who pulled off […]
It has been a fine week at Glorious Goodwood for the newish combination of William Haggas and Tom Marquand, who got their fourth winner together at the Sussex track when Pablo Escobarr won a Group Three on Friday. They can cap it all off by taking the Stewards’ Cup back […]
Battaash smashes his own track record to win King George Stakes for fourth successive year at Goodwood Battaash smashed his own course record at Goodwood on Friday The 2-7 favourite won in 55.62 seconds, compared to the previous-best 56.20 He gave runner-up Glass Slippers 8lb and a two-and-a-quarter length beating […]