Willie Mullins aiming for landmark Caulfield Cup success with AbsurdeLocal rider Ben Allen booked to ride Irish hope in Aus$5 million handicap highlight on Saturday Tue Oct 14 2025 - 16:18
Champion Stakes remains plan for Delacroix despite also getting QEII entry Aidan O’Brien supplements Stay True into Group One Long Distance Cup Mon Oct 13 2025 - 19:00
Champion Stakes plan for Delacroix sets up potential championship decider Three of the world’s top 12 horses are set to meet in the Champions Day featureMon Oct 13 2025 - 06:00
History made as Stumptown becomes first Irish-trained winner of storied Czech raceGavin Cromwell praised jockey Keith Donoghue for ‘super ride’ in 135th renewal of the Velka PardubickaSun Oct 12 2025 - 17:27
Gstaad leads Aidan O’Brien’s attempt at record ninth Dewhurst Stakes success Colin Keane and Dylan Browne McMonagle continue title battle at Naas over weekend Fri Oct 10 2025 - 19:00
Racing’s great disrupter Jim Bolger – an enemy of complacency within the sportLandmark moment as hugely experienced figure is downsizing his training and breeding operation Fri Oct 10 2025 - 06:00
All-conquering Willie Mullins readies team for winter campaignChampion trainer characterises new academy races due to start on Sunday as ‘sales ploy, nothing else’Wed Oct 08 2025 - 19:00
Aidan O’Brien reaches 21 Group One wins for season with Longchamp doubleChristophe Soumillon rides Ballydoyle pair Diamond Necklace and Puerto Rico to success on Arc day Sun Oct 05 2025 - 17:22
Minnie Hauk narrowly edged out of Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe glory by DaryzJessica Harrington and Shane Foley combine for Prix de l’Opera success with Barnavara Sun Oct 05 2025 - 17:11
Aidan O’Brien aiming for third Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, with Minnie Hauk his main hope Japanese star Croix Du Nord has car park draw to overcome in renewal, but may yet be able to challengeSat Oct 04 2025 - 06:00
Frankie Dettori teams up with Diego Velazquez for $1.25m Keeneland Mile Donnacha O’Brien sends Atsila to Group One Sun Chariot Stakes in NewmarketSat Oct 04 2025 - 06:00
Allowing race-day reserves for €600k Cesarewitch made Irish racing look ridiculousJP McManus-owned Puturhandstogether lands gamble after morning promotion from reservesFri Oct 03 2025 - 06:00
Minnie Hauk on track for Arc despite threat of more testing ground conditions in Paris Irish Arc contender White Birch entered for Horses In Training Sale at end of OctoberTue Sept 30 2025 - 16:37
Minnie Hauk set to try and join an elite group of Irish winners in Arc Dry weather outlook for Paris over coming week encourages hopes for Irish starSun Sept 28 2025 - 19:00
Curragh taking care of business with Goffs Million topping big money weekend Jockey Ronan Whelan anticipating lucrative day’s work aboard O’Brien filly Composing Sat Sept 27 2025 - 06:00
O’Brien targeting Group One Newmarket double as he closes in on new record Irishman just 3-1 to break his world record tally of 28 Group One winsSat Sept 27 2025 - 06:00
Racing needs to recognise less is more when it comes to bloated fixture listToo many race meetings risks diluting the sport’s appeal to punters and fans Fri Sept 26 2025 - 06:00
Danny Mullins guides Spanish Harlem to Kerry National victoryWillie Mullins-trained 16/1 shot sees off Three Card Brag and French Dynamite at ListowelWed Sept 24 2025 - 17:43
Australian media reports that Aidan O’Brien’s Scandinavia failed Melbourne Cup vet checks Speculation suggests that the Irish trainer’s chequered relationship with Australian racing authorities continuesWed Sept 24 2025 - 14:23
Meath trainer fined €2,800 after racehorse Nibiru fails drug testCathy O’Leary sanctioned after success in claiming race at Dundalk in October last yearTue Sept 23 2025 - 19:34
Anyway could prove solution to typically competitive Kerry National You Oughta Know leads Willie Mullins trio into €200,000 Listowel festival feature Tue Sept 23 2025 - 19:00
Bloodstock world rocked by death of Coolmore Stud’s star stallion Wootton Bassett Cheltenham announce measures to encourage people back, including a cut in the price of a pintTue Sept 23 2025 - 15:39
Ombudsman absence a lily-livered move by Godolphin that robs Champion Stakes of must-see raceRubber match with Delacroix would have captured the imagination of the massesFri Sept 12 2025 - 06:00
Star Japanese rider warms up for Champions Festival with two rides in Cork British racing protest leaves Cork with the spotlight to itselfWed Sept 10 2025 - 06:00
Aidan O’Brien horses fail to fire in Arc Trials at Longchamp as Byzantine Dream boosts Japanese hopes Last year’s Arc runner-up Aventure lands Vermeille as Whirl fades to last Sun Sept 07 2025 - 19:00
Mercurial Soumillon steps into the Ballydoyle hot seat as Whirl heads Arc-Trials raid Henri Matisse leads Aidan O’Brien trio into Group One Prix Du MoulinFri Sept 05 2025 - 19:00
Mikey O’Connor, veteran point-point rider and trainer, dies aged 44Cork man fell ill while working at his yard on ThursdayFri Sept 05 2025 - 15:57
My Mate Alfie to try improve dire Irish record in Group One Haydock Sprint Cup Wayne Lordan loses appeal against 10-day whip ban that rules him out of Irish Champions FestivalFri Sept 05 2025 - 15:43
Survival is the only metric for success at some of Ireland’s struggling racetracksThurles saga reflects a sector under increasing pressure Fri Sept 05 2025 - 06:00
Christophe Soumillon comes up trumps after Aidan O’Brien forced into jockey reshuffleDelacroix on course for another clash with Ombudsman in Irish Champion StakesMon Sept 01 2025 - 17:51
Gavin Cromwell’s In My Teens bids to live up to pedigree in Roscommon AMO team eye Prix de l’Abbaye chance with high-class sprinter Arizona Blaze Mon Sept 01 2025 - 06:00
Ryan Moore starts recovery from leg fracture and leaves Aidan O’Brien with logistical headache Former French champion Christophe Soumillon could be jockey to benefit from Moore’s absence Sun Aug 31 2025 - 16:04
Ex-rider Robson Aguiar set to join Group One trainer Adrian Murray on joint licence Ryan Moore teams up with English hope Godwinson in €100k Irish Cambridgeshire at the CurraghFri Aug 29 2025 - 19:49
Thurles’ stay of execution turns focus back on HRI’s Tipperary project Ex-US sprinter Fandom makes first start for Joseph O’Brien in Abergwaun StakesFri Aug 29 2025 - 17:03
The pacemaker is a blight on racing and it needs to be addressed urgentlyIntegrity of the sport dragged down by races run at an artificial paceFri Aug 29 2025 - 06:00
Thurles racecourse to remain open until next March as HRI take on operational responsibility Track will fulfill its remaining 11 fixtures after deal struck with the owners on Tipperary trackThu Aug 28 2025 - 17:36
Marois hero Diego Velazquez has $1.25m Keeneland Mile next on his agenda Promising claimer Alex Harvey bids to continue successful momentum at Bellewstown Wed Aug 27 2025 - 06:00
Japanese star Shin Emperor set for another crack at Irish Champion Stakes successInterim racecourse chief executive Vicki Donlon to leave Leopardstown after Irish Champions FestivalTue Aug 26 2025 - 19:00
Jockey-title battle goes to Bellewstown where Colin Keane has six chances to narrow gap Dylan Browne McMonagle leads reigning champion by 67 winners to 63Tue Aug 26 2025 - 06:00
They said it can’t be done, but Aidan O’Brien is on course to beat his own world record for Group One winsIreland’s champion trainer already on 15 top-flight victories for the seasonMon Aug 25 2025 - 16:24
Gstaad has to settle for second behind Venetian Sun in Deauville’s Prix Morny Wayne Lordan continues good weekend with Goodwood victory on Precise Sun Aug 24 2025 - 17:10
Wayne Lordan eyeing up Group Two Curragh double Cross-channel challenger Miss Attitude could prove best in Sunday’s Naas feature Sat Aug 23 2025 - 06:00
Willie Mullins hoping it’s second time lucky in the Ebor for Hipop De Loire Aidan O’Brien targeting Deauville Group One double with Gstaad and Bedtime Story Sat Aug 23 2025 - 06:00
Exciting juvenile Lady Iman leads powerful Irish team into York’s Nunthorpe Stakes Trainer Ger Lyons’s star bids to become first two-year-old winner of prestigious sprint in 18 yearsFri Aug 22 2025 - 06:00
Minnie Hauk gives impression of even better to come after Yorkshire Oaks rompFilly gives Aidan O’Brien a record-equalling ninth success in Day Two Ebor festival featureThu Aug 21 2025 - 16:57
Minnie Hauk short odds to add name to stellar Yorkshire Oaks roll of honourColin Keane bids to take advantage of Dylan Browne McMonagle’s suspension in race for jockeys’ title Thu Aug 21 2025 - 06:00
Ombudsman eventually sweeps to York glory after another 150-1 pacemaker threatens upset Dual Derby winner Lambourn can finish only fifth in Great Voltigeur Stakes on frustrating day for Aidan O’BrienWed Aug 20 2025 - 17:01
Lambourn returns to action in York’s Great Voltigeur, with St Leger looming over horizonGodolphin and Coolmore shape up for another Acomb Stakes clash on day one of Ebor festival Tue Aug 19 2025 - 17:54
Top-quality International line-up a timely morale boost for British racing Aidan O’Brien aiming for record-extending win as Delacroix bids to back up Eclipse success Tue Aug 19 2025 - 16:29
Jockeys’ body says any new watering system for Thurles not anticipated until 2026Irish Jockeys Association expected racing to go ahead at Thurles this autumn Mon Aug 04 2025 - 18:07
