by JOHN MUCCIOLO On Monday at 11 p.m. (EST), or Tuesday afternoon in Australia, Flemington Racecourse will host “the race that stops a nation.” The A$7.1 million Melbourne Cup (G1) will be the highlight of […]
In a tussle that elicited flashbacks to last October’s Racing Post Trophy (G1), Roaring Lion accosted Saxon Warrior down the stretch of Saturday’s Eclipse (G1) at Sandown – only now the result was reversed. This […]
The hottest antepost favorite of Royal Ascot 2018 will take center stage on Wednesday as Cracksman lines up in the Prince of Wales’s (G1). His towering presence is keeping the field relatively small for this […]
A couple of hours after Wuheida sprang an 11-1 surprise in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1), Godolphin turned the double with the 14-1 outsider Talismanic in the $3,680,000 Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1). […]
Twenty horses remain eligible for Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) as of Monday’s forfeit stage, and that’s not even counting heavily favored Enable. John Gosden’s triple Oaks heroine is set to be supplemented […]
Irish Champions Weekend, Saturday edition, was characterized by upset winners. The 25-1 Decorated Knight swooped fast and late in the Irish Champion (G1), and the 20-1 Hydrangea nipped even-money Winter in the Matron (G1). The […]
Trainer Aidan O’Brien is favored to pull off a Group 1 double at Leopardstown Saturday, with star sophomores Churchill and Winter ranking as odds-on favorites in the Irish Champion (G1) and Matron (G1) respectively. The […]
As the first major intergenerational clash of the season, the Eclipse (G1) at Sandown provides a gauge of how the three-year-olds stack up against their elders. Saturday’s renewal became an instant classic of the genre, […]
A 40-1 chance, ridden by a little-known jockey with only three winners over the past two years, sprang the biggest boilover in the last four decades of the Epsom Derby (G1). That’s one way to […]
As of Monday’s entry stage, trainer Aidan O’Brien had seven of the 20 horses in line for Saturday’s Derby (G1) at Epsom. Heading the Ballydoyle battalion is Cliffs of Moher, who is currently vying for […]
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