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2020 February
  • Mon, Feb 10, 2020
    De Boinville Delighted With Altior's Return
    Those that travelled to Newbury hoping to witness Altior return to winning ways were not left disappointed - and for Nico de Boinville it was a victory that went much deeper.
  • Fri, Feb 07, 2020
    Aintree On The Agenda For La Bague Au Roi
    Warren Greatrex will choose Aintree over Cheltenham for La Bague Au Roi this spring, after her laudable run on what turned out to be unsuitable ground at Leopardstown.
  • Fri, Feb 07, 2020
    Benbatl Shines Again At Meydan
    Benbatl opened up a number of high-profile options following his impressive dirt debut victory in the second round of the Al Maktoum Challenge at Meydan.
  • Tue, Feb 04, 2020
    Henderson Retains Maximum Faith In Altior
    Nicky Henderson is confident multiple Grade One winner Altior can return to his brilliant best in the Win Bigger On Betfair Exchange Chase at Newbury on Saturday.
2019 November
2019 October
2019 September
2019 August
2019 July
  • Sat, Jul 20, 2019
    Irish Oaks Preview: Star Catcher can shine at the Curragh
    The 2018 Irish Oaks witnessed arguably one of the rides of the season from James Doyle, who exploited Sea of Class' devastating turn of foot to get up rather cosily in the final strides, all under hands-and-heels.
2019 June
  • Thu, Jun 20, 2019
    Timefigure preview: Royal Ascot Day 3
    The highlight on Day 3 at Royal Ascot, Ladies Day, is the Ascot Gold Cup, a race which has enjoyed something of a renaissance in recent years, and this year's renewal sees last year's winner Stradivarius attempt to retain his crown.
  • Wed, Jun 19, 2019
    Timefigure preview: Royal Ascot Day 1
    Three Group 1 contests in the opening four races mean very few racedays in the Flat calendar can compete with the quality on offer on the Tuesday of Royal Ascot.
  • Wed, Jun 19, 2019
    Timefigure Preview: Royal Ascot Day 2
    The second day of Royal Ascot has a slightly different look to it this year with what used to be the opening race, the Jersey Stakes, having been shunted to Saturday, but 123 declared runners in the six races means finding winners is going to be as tricky as usual.
2019 April
2019 March
  • Wed, Mar 13, 2019
    Cheltenham Festival Timefigure Preview : Thursday, 14th March 2019
    The feature event on day three is the Stayers Hurdle and the horse with the recent best credentials on time is Paisley Park, who is unbeaten this season and recorded a 161 timefigure when winning the Cleeve Hurdle here in January by twelve lengths.
  • Wed, Mar 13, 2019
    Cheltenham Festival Timefigure Preview : Wednesday, 13th March 2019
    The faint possibility that Tiger Roll would run in the Gold Cup and not the Glenfarclas Chase (16:10) was never any more than that, and now he has been declared to defend his cross-country crown, the 2018 Grand National winner must be included in any combination bets on day two of the Festival.
  • Fri, Mar 08, 2019
    Champion Chase Preview: Saint Calvados The Each-Way Play
    Such is Altior’s dominance over the two mile division that the Champion Chase feels perilously close to becoming a second coronation ceremony rather than a bona fide test for the reigning champion chaser, who aims to become the first back-to-back winner of the race since Master Minded.
  • Fri, Mar 01, 2019
    Cheltenham Countdown: Nicholls back at the Topofthegame
    Paul Nicholls is back. It’s not because he has better horses – though of course that helps – but because the swagger of the man who dominated the Cheltenham Gold Cup – and the Cheltenham Festival as a whole – around the turn of the century has returned.
2019 February
  • Sat, Feb 23, 2019
    Rowleyfile Preview: Winter Derby
    The racing at Lingfield Park on Saturday is in the news, though not, as might have been expected, due to the quality and competitive nature of the sporting fare, but because of a boycott by trainers in protest about prize money levels.
  • Thu, Feb 07, 2019
    Clan To Cement Gold Cup Credentials
    Nic Doggett previews the Betfair Denman Chase at Newbury on Saturday and fancies Clan des Obeaux to uphold recent King George VI Chase form with Native River.
  • Fri, Feb 01, 2019
    No Sour Grapes For Brunello
    Fine Brunello (Timeform Rating h127p) – Finesse Juvenile Hurdle, Cheltenham, Saturday 26 January
2019 January
  • Sun, Jan 20, 2019
    World’s Best Racehorse for 2018
    One of the fascinating aspects of the now “global” thoroughbred racing scene is the ability for racing enthusiasts to follow racing anywhere in the world, most of it live, courtesy of SKY Channel who now telecast these premium races directly into our homes.
  • Fri, Jan 18, 2019
    Laurina: Focus on the Flat Formula
    There are times, humbling times, humiliating times, when I have to concede that Aidan O’Brien may know rather more about racing than I do.
  • Sat, Jan 12, 2019
    Mullins Has The Foundations For Success
    Willie Mullins won the Grade 3 Total Event Rental Novices’ Chase (13:15) last year with the Timeform top-rated Invitation Only, but the one who tops the figures this time around hails from the Henry de Bromhead yard, in the form of A Plus Tard.
  • Thu, Jan 10, 2019
    Meydan Best Bets: Thursday 10 January
    International expert Mark Milligan has picked out his three best bets for the second week of the Dubai Carnival at Meydan on Thursday.
2018 December
  • Sat, Dec 29, 2018
    Challow Novices' Hurdle Preview: A Champ In Every Sense
    There have been some good winners of the Challow Novices' Hurdle this century, the likes of Denman, Diamond Harry, Reve de Sivola and Taquin du Seuil all having tasted success in this race early in their careers.
  • Fri, Dec 14, 2018
    International Hurdle Preview: Changing Of The Guard
    Formerly known as the Bula Hurdle, in honour of the dual Champion Hurdle winner who also won this race in 1972, the Unibet International Hurdle has been a happy hunting ground for six-time winner Richard Johnson.
2018 November
  • Fri, Nov 30, 2018
    Jamie Lynch's Weekend Preview: Girls Allowed
    The ‘who’ were the jumping fillies and mares, the ‘where’ was Britain, the ‘why’ was the growing gender gap, of equine inequality in the upper echelons.
  • Fri, Nov 23, 2018
    Jamie Lynch's Weekend Preview: Game, Set And Rematch
    It wasn’t just that he lost the match but the specific move by which Deep Blue won it that left chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov reeling in the first encounter between human and computer in 1996.
  • Sat, Nov 17, 2018
    Betvictor Gold Cup Preview: Rather Be Can Call The Tune
    The race now known as the BetVictor Gold Cup is one of the most prestigious and informative handicaps in the National Hunt calendar, with several horses who have gone on to contest the biggest prize of them all, the Cheltenham Gold Cup, featuring on the roll of honour.
  • Wed, Nov 14, 2018
    Betvictor Gold Cup Preview: Rather Be Can Call The Tune
    The race now known as the BetVictor Gold Cup is one of the most prestigious and informative handicaps in the National Hunt calendar, with several horses who have gone on to contest the biggest prize of them all, the Cheltenham Gold Cup, featuring on the roll of honour.
  • Fri, Nov 09, 2018
    November Handicap Preview: Buzz Can Come Out On Top
    The November Handicap is the final big prize of the Flat turf season – and used to symbolise the end of the season as a whole until the restructure took place a few years ago – so it is a notoriously competitive affair, with recent winners Times Up, Litigant, Prize Money and last year’s victor Saunter all going on to either win or contest in pattern company.
  • Fri, Nov 02, 2018
    Breeders' Cup: Five To Watch For The Home Team
    Chad Brown has won the Juvenile Fillies Turf four times, including the last two years, and has strong claims of winning the race yet again with this exciting daughter of Lope de Vega.
  • Fri, Nov 02, 2018
    Breeders' Cup: The European Contingent
    Soldier’s Call has had a stellar season for young trainer Archie Watson, winning four times against his own age group as well as running with credit against his elders in the Prix de l’Abbaye at Longchamp last time.
2018 October
  • Fri, Oct 26, 2018
    Cox Plate Preview: Another For Winx?
    Timeform Australia preview the Cox Plate which takes place at Moonee Valley Racecourse (07:00 BST) on Saturday, where Winx is chasing a record fourth straight win in the race.
  • Thu, Oct 25, 2018
    Luca Cumani: From Milan To Meydan
    As Newmarket’s third longest-serving trainer – only Sir Mark Prescott and Sir Michael Stoute have held their licences for longer – Luca Cumani is very much part of the British training establishment.
  • Tue, Oct 09, 2018
    The Melbourne Cup: A Changing Climate
    Until recently, knowing the identity of the previous year’s Melbourne Cup winner would have earned you little more than a bit of kudos at your local pub quiz, but the world’s richest two-mile handicap is growing in popularity in Britain and Ireland.
2018 September
  • Fri, Sep 28, 2018
    Rowleyfile Preview: Cambridgeshire Handicap
    Rumour has it that Britain’s Brexit negotiators were warned that if they failed to find a deal acceptable to all parties, while simultaneously honouring international treaties and the Good Friday Agreement, they would be punished by being moved onto something REALLY hard, such as cracking the Cambridgeshire Handicap.
  • Fri, Sep 21, 2018
    Weekend Preview: True Potential In The Mill Reef
    A benchmark is a pathway to the future and a partnership for the past. Frankel is racing’s benchmark, the monster measurement against which everything before him, and everything after, is compared.
  • Wed, Sep 05, 2018
    Sprint Cup Preview: Harry To Retain Crown
    In what’s sometimes a low-key period, Saturday’s racing has a bit of extra sparkle as it features the likely return of Enable in Kempton’s September Stakes.
2018 August
  • Fri, Aug 24, 2018
    Rowleyfile Preview: 2018 Ebor Handicap
    It was somewhat odd to see a televised draw for the Sky Bet-sponsored Ebor Handicap – a 20-runner contest over an extended 14f – at York on Saturday and even odder to see those involved getting excited about it all.
  • Fri, Aug 10, 2018
    Shergar Cup Preview: Corelli Can Hit The Right Note
    The Shergar Cup isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, admittedly, but there is no doubt that it brings something different to the sport, and there will be a bumper crowd at Ascot on Saturday to enjoy the action.
2018 July
2018 June
  • Wed, Jun 20, 2018
    Timefigure preview: Royal Ascot Wednesday
    Cracksman is the headline act in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes and despite the form of his two wins this year being open to question he holds an 11 lb advantage on Timeform ratings and a similar one on timefigures.
  • Tue, Jun 19, 2018
    Queen Anne Stakes Preview: Total Recol
    Due to the layout of the sporting calendar, the pinnacle of British Flat racing is forced to share the limelight with the FIFA World Cup once every four years, meaning that we're set for the occasional flirt with ITV4 over the next five days.
  • Mon, Jun 18, 2018
    Timefigure preview: Royal Ascot Tuesday
    The Queen Anne is nearly always one of the highlights of the Royal meeting but the pair at or near the head of the market for the latest renewal and who have the best timefigures – Lockinge first and second Rhododendron (118) and Lightning Spear (121) – look substandard in historical terms.
  • Thu, Jun 14, 2018
    Royal Ascot 2018: The hottest head-to-heads
    ‘A duel, whether regarded as a ceremony in the cult of honour, or even when reduced in its moral essence to a form of manly sport, demands a perfect singleness of intention, a homicidal austerity of mood.’
  • Fri, Jun 01, 2018
    Epsom Oaks Position Map Preview: Tactics Crucial For Wand
    By the time the Oaks is run at 4.30pm on Friday afternoon, the going description at Epsom will almost certainly have ‘soft’ in it, as at the time of writing the current ground is soft, and there is a threat of further showers on Thursday afternoon.
2018 May
  • Wed, May 23, 2018
    Temple Stakes Preview: Taash has outgrown his rivals
    The Temple Stakes often gives off the vibe of a Group 1 masquerading as a Group 2, mainly due to the calibre of runners that arrive to take their chance in it. It generally serves as a useful source for Royal Ascot clue
  • Sun, May 20, 2018
    French Preview: Djakadam's time to shine
    There are two big National Hunt races taking place at Auteuil on Sunday in the shape of the Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris and the Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil.
  • Fri, May 18, 2018
    Weekend Preview: High Hope on Saturday
    Triple Crown talk in Britain is still in the mid-range, but it’s quickly upon us for the American version, the second leg coming up at Pimlico on Saturday night.
  • Wed, May 16, 2018
    Musidora Stakes Preview: Gosden Chasing A Four-Timer
    The Musidora Stakes, a mile and a quarter Group 3 open to three-year-old fillies, is a leading trial for the Oaks, with six winners of the race have gone on to achieve victory at Epsom the following month
  • Fri, May 11, 2018
    Rowleyfile Preview: 2018 Chester Cup
    Starting a preview of a two-and-a-quarter-mile handicap with an assessment of the draw might seem an odd thing to do, but where the 188Bet-sponsored Chester Cup – run on a tight left-handed track – is concerned the evidence supports it.
2018 April
  • Tue, Apr 24, 2018
    Boylesports Champion Chase Preview: Side With Douvan
    The Boylesports Champion Chase - which takes place at 17:30 on Tuesday - has been won by some of the top two-mile chasers this century, notably Moscow Flyer (2004), Master Minded (2009) and Sprinter Sacre (2013).
  • Fri, Apr 20, 2018
    2018 Timeform Global Rankings
    Australia, Great Britain and the United States are represented in the top 5 of the first Global Rankings for 2018.
  • Thu, Apr 12, 2018
    Grand National Festival: Timefigures Preview
    Timeform's R&D team find the best bets at Aintree's Grand National Festival from a jumps timefigures perspective - including a 20/1 bet in one of the handicaps.
2018 March
  • Mon, Mar 12, 2018
    Jamie Lynch's Cheltenham Festival Preview
    Everybody has had their fill of Cheltenham previews for this year, via endless panels and paragraphs, and so what better way to start afresh than with the first Cheltenham preview of the 2019 Festival.
  • Fri, Mar 02, 2018
    Handicap Homework: Grounds for Optimism
    There’s planning, plotting and placing that all goes into preparing a horse for a Cheltenham handicap, but nothing makes a difference like a difference in the ground.
2018 February
2018 January
  • Fri, Jan 19, 2018
    Rowleyfile Preview: Peter Marsh Chase 2018
    There are a few things of which we can be almost certain regarding Saturday’s Peter Marsh Chase at Haydock and there are a few things that are very much unknown.
2017 December
  • Fri, Dec 29, 2017
    Cheltenham New Year's Day Preview: To The Well Once More
    Splash of Ginge won this race for Nigel Twiston-Davies in 2015, following in the footsteps of stablemate Double Ross who had obliged 12 months earlier, and could yet bid for a second Betbright Best For Festival Betting Handicap Chase at Cheltenham on Saturday.
2017 November
  • Fri, Nov 24, 2017
    How Ratings Can Help To Evaluate “The Best Horse In The World”
    The recent publication of an update to the Longines-sponsored World’s Best Racehorse Rankings (WBBRs) quite put the cat among the pigeons, with many racing fans aghast that Arrogate had retained his number-one position despite a third-successive defeat a few days earlier at the Breeders’ Cup.
  • Sat, Nov 18, 2017
    Rowleyfile Preview: Betvictor Gold Cup
    According to scientists, you can carbon-date the age of racing fans by the name with which they refer to the first big two-and-a-half-mile handicap chase of the jumps season at Cheltenham.
  • Wed, Nov 15, 2017
    Greatwood Hurdle Preview: Stick With Skelton
    Dan Skelton isn’t a trainer who wastes entries, but even for such an efficient operation his record with his runners in the Greatwood Hurdle is very impressive.
2017 October
  • Tue, Oct 31, 2017
    Ratings Update: Doncaster, Cheltenham And Aintree
    All eyes were on Doncaster on Saturday as Aidan O’Brien broke Bobby Frankel’s long-standing world record by saddling 26 Group/Grade 1 winners in a season when Saxon Warrior (120p from 114p) bravely fought off the challenge of Roaring Lion (120p from 113p) in the Racing Post Trophy.
2017 September
  • Sat, Sep 30, 2017
    Arc Preview: A Season-Long Story
    It’s that stage of the season when the stage of the season becomes a big thing, her hard campaign hung around Enable’s neck as a potential anchor ahead of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
2017 August
  • Wed, Aug 16, 2017
    Hungerford Stakes Preview: Is This Us?.
    There isn’t a plethora of Group races over 7f for older horses, but Saturday’s Hungerford Stakes at Newbury has rarely been a strong race at this level, only a couple of the 11 renewals since it was promoted to Group 2 level producing top-class performances (Paco Boy in 2008 and Excelebration in 2011).
  • Sat, Aug 05, 2017
    Rowleyfile Preview: Stewards' Cup
    The guiding principle behind “trends” articles is that important features of a given race may be repeatable over time.
  • Thu, Aug 03, 2017
    Gordon Stakes Preview: Crystal Has Clear Claims
    The Gordon Stakes is a Group 3 open to three-year-olds run over a mile and a half, and is seen as a recognised trial for the St Leger at Doncaster, the final British classic of the season.
  • Tue, Aug 01, 2017
    Goodwood Preview: The Jewels On The Downs
    Goodwood is growing in not only prize money but also significance, especially the top-end races, which all have layers of intrigue in one way or another, and Jamie Lynch picks out his five gems for the big week.
2017 July
  • Thu, Jul 27, 2017
    King George Preview: Enable Gives Gosden Strong Hand
    No three-year-olds contested the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes between 2005 and 2008 and, for the most part, it has failed to attract the very best of the classic generation since, preventing the race from being the top cross-generational middle-distance clash that it really should be.
  • Fri, Jul 21, 2017
    Goodwood Preview: The Jewels On The Downs
    That mildly musty smell in the house upon returning from a holiday isn’t unfamiliar or even new. In actual fact, it’s what your home always smells like, but your nose is so accustomed to it that your brain decides not to register it, until the leave of absence.
  • Wed, Jul 12, 2017
    Jamie Lynch: The Saturday Schedule
    On one of the busiest and best days in the racing calendar, billed as Super Saturday, Jamie Lynch provides a timeline for what to expect, and where, and from whom.
  • Fri, Jul 07, 2017
    Rowleyfile Preview: Coral Eclipse
    The Coral-sponsored Eclipse Stakes at Sandown in early-July has a special place in the Racing Calendar, and in the hearts of racing enthusiasts, as usually the first significant clash between the classic generation and their elders.
2017 June
  • Mon, Jun 19, 2017
    Diamond Jubilee Preview: Out On A Lim
    With the dominant six-furlong sprinter of 2015 Muhaarar retiring at the end of that season, the scene was set in 2016 for a new dominant force to emerge in the divison.
  • Sat, Jun 17, 2017
    Royal Ascot Preview: The Best Of British
    In his second summary of Royal Ascot, Jamie Lynch bangs the patriotic drum by looking at the best that Britain has to offer, focusing on the forgotten hero whose trainer retains great faith in…
  • Fri, Jun 16, 2017
    Prince of wales's preview: ulysses ready to bloom
    The US Open golf which begins today may feature a Holmes and a Watson, however the trick to identifying the winner of Wednesday's Prince of Wales’s Stakes lies in separating out the key protagonists of this particular mystery.
  • Fri, Jun 09, 2017
    Godolphin: A New Approach?
    Following John Ferguson’s resignation from his role as Chief Executive of Godolphin, Nic Doggett reflects on the performance of the Sheikh Mohammed-owned operation and looks towards the future.
  • Sat, Jun 03, 2017
    Epsom Preview: The Derby Degree
    ‘If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society.
2017 May
  • Wed, May 31, 2017
    Oaks Preview: Rain Strengthens Juddmonte's Hand.
    Unlike the Derby, which looks as open a renewal as we have seen in recent years, Friday’s Oaks – the third British classic of the season – is unsurprisingly one-sided when it comes to the ante-post betting market.
  • Tue, May 23, 2017
    Dante Festival And Lockinge Stakes
    The Dante Stakes is by far the most recognised of the British Derby trials and, while none of the 10-strong field stood out on form, the latest renewal was full of potential improvers and appeared to be one of the most competitive in recent memory.
  • Wed, May 17, 2017
    Lockinge Stakes Preview: Rib Worth A Tickle
    The Lockinge Stakes - the feature race on Saturday’s valuable card at Newbury - has attracted 12 entries, and just like the betting, Richard Fahey’s Ribchester heads the Timeform weight-adjusted ratings.
  • Wed, May 17, 2017
    York Preview: I-Dante-Ty Parade
    Are there any real Derby horses out there? It’s a question that has got louder with every trial, but any answer assumes what a ‘Derby horse’ looks like at this stage.
  • Thu, May 11, 2017
    Ratings Update: Newmarket Guineas Festival
    The 2000 Guineas on Saturday looked a vintage renewal beforehand, with the top two-year-old of 2016 and a trio of impressive trial winners all featuring in a 10-strong field, the smallest for the race since 1995.
2017 March
  • Sat, Mar 11, 2017
    Cheltenham Day One Preview: Environmental Wealth
    ‘There is no semblance of any anti-Irish bias,’ said Phil Smith, extinguishing fired-up forces with one hand and expunging higher-up horses with the other, a marked man as the marks man, in an impossible position as the partial peacemaker in racing’s ratings rivalry between nations.
  • Sat, Mar 11, 2017
    Cheltenham Day Two Preview: Might Mouse Bite?
    Whatever the collective noun is for National Hunt trainers, a pride is a perfect fit, like nomadic lions competing to claim certain territory, and, truer than for racehorses, a good big ’un will indeed beat a good little ‘un.
  • Sat, Mar 04, 2017
    Grimthorpe Chase: Yala Can Bounce Back
    Despite a field of just six runners in last year’s renewal of the Grimthorpe Chase, it very nearly provided the perfect trial for the Grand National, as the winner The Last Samuri went on to finish second at Aintree five weeks after.
2017 February
  • Wed, Feb 08, 2017
    Ratings Update: Charm-Ing Weekend For Nicholls
    There is often little correlation between official trials and the main events themselves; however, for all that one is right-handed and the other left-handed, decent ground means that the weekend’s cardsat Musselburgh could indeed be relevant to the Cheltenham Festival.
2017 January
  • Sat, Jan 28, 2017
    Sectional Preview: Cheltenham Trials Day 2017
    It has been observed that “you can have too much of a good thing”. Well, where top-quality jumps racing is concerned, it seems that the occasional nine-race card is not “too much”, oh no.
  • Tue, Jan 10, 2017
    Ratings Update: Sandown And Naas
    Colin Tizzard has now won the Old Roan Chase, the Shloer Chase, the Betfair Chase, the Hennessy Gold Cup, the Kauto Star Novices’ Chase (Feltham), the King George VI Chase, the Welsh Grand National and the Tolworth Novices’ Hurdle this season, as well as another Grade 2 and two further Grade 3s.
  • Mon, Jan 02, 2017
    Ratings Update: Christmas Special
    Thistlecrack fully deserved all the praise that was heaped on him after his impressive King George victory on Boxing Day, a remarkable performance given he had only made his debut over fences two months earlier.
2016 December
  • Tue, Dec 13, 2016
    Ratings Update: Cheltenham, Cork And Punchestown
    The Caspian Caviar Gold Cup was won by the four-year-old novice Frodon (up 6 lb to 148p) who coped much better with the demands of this type of race than he had in the BetVictor Gold Cup and showed improvement as a result.
  • Wed, Dec 07, 2016
    One More Chance For My Tent Or Yours
    Nigel Twiston-Davies won the International Hurdle with Khyber Kim in 2009 and has added two more victories since then with The New One.
2016 November
  • Tue, Nov 29, 2016
    Ratings Update: Hennessy Gold Cup Meeting
    The Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury on Saturday looked a typically competitive renewal on paper, with an interesting mix of battle-hardened campaigners and second-season chasers featuring in a field of 19.
  • Fri, Nov 25, 2016
    Blast From The Past: Hennessy Gold Cup
    Smad Place won the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury by a dozen lengths 12 months ago and he will become the latest horse to attempt to win the race for a second time on Saturday.
  • Wed, Nov 23, 2016
    Ratings Update: Betfair Chase, Coral Hurdle And 1965 Chase
    Cue Card, cue big performance. Colin Tizzard’s charge was three fences away from possibly emulating the great Kauto Star when his fall in the Cheltenham Gold Cup last March eliminated any chance of a famous triple crown of the Betfair Chase, King George and Gold Cup, and the £1m bonus that now goes hand in hand with such an achievement.
  • Wed, Nov 23, 2016
    Rehearsal Chase 2016: Rightly The Wrong Price
    With most of the focus regarding racing at Newcastle having been on its all-weather track over the past few years, those who work for the course will be keen to remind us that high-quality jumps racing still takes place there.
  • Wed, Nov 16, 2016
    Betfair Chase 2016: Silviniaco To Continue Good Race Record
    The five-runner turnout for last year’s Betfair Chase was slightly disappointing given the new £1 million bonus - for winning the race as well as the King George and Cheltenham Gold Cup - that was introduced at the beginning of last season.
  • Tue, Nov 01, 2016
    Rowleyfile Preview: Melbourne Cup 2016
    Australia’s Melbourne Cup is, famously, “the race that stops a nation”. But, before it achieves that annual distinction – on Tuesday 01 November this year, at an hour which will depend on your time zone – it first starts a nation on an obsession with the numbers and statistics from which it is hoped that the winner will be unearthed.
2016 October
2016 September
  • Sun, Sep 25, 2016
    California Chrome Tops Timeform Rankings
    US champion California Chrome has returned to the top of the global Timeform rankings after a career-best effort in the $1 million TVG Pacific Classic at Del Mar.
  • Wed, Sep 07, 2016
    Housesofparliament Gets The Each-Way Vote
    There is an obviously one-sided look to the final classic of the season, Doncaster’s St Leger, with Idaho bringing a solid and strong profile into the race following a win in the Great Voltigeur at York.
  • Tue, Sep 06, 2016
    Reflection Looking Competitive For Champions Sprint
    Unfortunately for Haydock’s Sprint Cup, the standout six-furlong performer of the season missed the course’s showpiece race for the second year running, with the rain that hit the track throughout Saturday inevitably leading to the withdrawal of impressive July Cup winner Limato in the early afternoon.
2016 August
  • Wed, Aug 31, 2016
    Don't Forget To Back Memory
    Ben Fearnley previews Saturday's Group 1 Sprint Cup at Haydock and picks out an ante-post bet.
  • Tue, Aug 30, 2016
    Lightning Spear Ready For Return To The Top
    The feature race of the weekend, the Celebration Mile at Goodwood, only attracted five runners, though they were at least a high-quality bunch, with four of them having contested at least one Group 1 race earlier in the season.
  • Sat, Aug 06, 2016
    Prix Maurice De Gheest: Fun To Land Gold For Hong Kong
    Timeform top rated—by 3 lb—for this year’s Prix Maurice de Gheest is the Hong Kong raider Gold-Fun, who ran close to his best when a staying-on neck second to Twilight Son in the six-furlong Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot last time.
  • Thu, Aug 04, 2016
    Rose Of Lancaster: More Honours For Progressive Knight
    The lack of races priced up by bookmakers for Saturday is an indication that this weekend is something of a lull in the action in the UK, however the Group 3 Rose of Lancaster Stakes at Haydock is priced up by a couple of firms.
  • Tue, Aug 02, 2016
    Ratings Update: Glorious Goodwood
    Ben Fearnley runs through the major changes in the Timeform ratings after Glorious Goodwood 2016 and highlights the best performances in the biggest races.
2016 July
  • Wed, Jul 27, 2016
    Glorious Goodwood 2016
    Goodwood’s midsummer meeting – traditionally referred to as Glorious Goodwood – may not have quite the cachet of the Cheltenham Festival in March or the international pull of Royal Ascot in June, but it stands on its own feet as an event of significance in the Racing Calendar.
  • Wed, Jul 27, 2016
    Nassau Stakes Preview: Another Group 1 For Ballydoyle?
    Dual classic winner Minding is clearly the leading three-year-old filly in training and a repeat of her best form (marginally her two wins at Newmarket - the Fillies’ Mile and 1000 Guineas) in Saturday’s Group 1 Nassau Stakes at Goodwood would see all of her rivals needing to improve by 4 lb and more to beat her.
  • Sun, Jul 24, 2016
    Prix Robert Papin: Prince Can Become King In France
    Two-year-old racing in France doesn’t really get going in earnest until Deauville next month but the Prix Robert Papin over five and a half furlongs at Maisons-Laffitte is the most important contest of its type so far this year across the Channel.
  • Wed, Jul 20, 2016
    King George Vi: Wings Can Carry Desire Into The Places
    The Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday is Britain’s most prestigious all-aged race in the Flat calendar and provides one of the first opportunities for the three-year-olds to meet their elders at the highest level.
  • Thu, Jul 07, 2016
    Jamie Lynch's July Festival Preview: A Blue Week?
    There's a whiff of Wales about Hawkbill. Seeing is believing, and the progressive punches above their perceived weight is in the record books, but they're still to meet their Waterloo, more than a hunch that a proper rival will make a short story out of the fairytale.
  • Fri, Jul 01, 2016
    Test Of Time And Tactics
    All the rage since given the go-ahead for the Eclipse, The Gurkha is the star attraction at Sandown on Saturday
2016 June
  • Sat, Jun 18, 2016
    Royal Ascot Meeting 2016: Day Five Preview
    Like the King’s Stand Stakes on Tuesday, the Diamond Jubilee Stakes has become a truly international affair and a key part of the Global Sprint Challenge which encompasses 10 Group 1 races across the world.
  • Fri, Jun 17, 2016
    Royal Ascot Meeting 2016: Day Four Preview
    The Commonwealth Cup doesn’t have much of a history, having only been introduced into the programme book last season, however if its first winner is anything to go by, the race will quickly establish itself as one of the key races in the season.
  • Tue, Jun 14, 2016
    Ratings Update: Don't Give Up On Touch At Group Level
    Just days before the start of Royal Ascot, it was unsurprisingly a low-key week of racing on the domestic front, and the performance of the weekend on Timeform ratings came in a listed event at Salisbury on Sunday.
  • Mon, Jun 13, 2016
    Ascot Stakes 2016
    There is something rather odd about a Royal Ascot, in the height of summer, that is likely to commence on ground a fair bit softer than good.
2016 May
  • Tue, May 31, 2016
    Royal Ascot Clues
    Though the week before the Epsom Derby is traditionally a lower-key one in the British Flat racing calendar, the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan – staged at Chantilly this year rather than Longchamp – provided some top-class European action to fill the Group 1 void.
  • Sat, May 21, 2016
    Irish Guineas Weekend: Stay Cool On Sunday
    As was the case with the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial previewed by John Ingles a fortnight ago, Aidan O’Brien is responsible for half of the eight runners declared for the Irish 2000 Guineas.
  • Wed, May 18, 2016
    Angel Solid But Profitable Can Fly High Too
    Having backed Midterm and So Mi Dar ante-post for the Derby and Oaks I’m hardly in love with the game at the moment, but I do know one of the best things about betting on horse racing is how quickly things can change for the better, as well as for the worst.
  • Tue, May 17, 2016
    So Mi Dar And Minding In A Clash To Savour
    Trainer John Gosden won the Musidora Stakes with multiple Group 1 winner The Fugue in 2011 and his So Mi Dar (now Timeform-rated 120p) will now bid to improve upon that fillies’ third in the Oaks.
  • Thu, May 12, 2016
    Sectional Preview: 2016 York Dante Meeting
    The majority of accepted trials for the classics at Epsom this year have been unsatisfactory and/or underwhelming affairs, but we could well have a couple of genuinely informative ones at York this week.
  • Thu, May 12, 2016
    York Dante Meeting 2016: Day One Preview
    The highlight of the first day of York's Dante Meeting on Wednesday is the Group 2 Duke of York Stakes over six furlongs, which is often a port of call for some of the top sprinters on the way to Royal Ascot next month.
  • Tue, May 10, 2016
    Derby And Oaks Classic Trials
    The most anticipated classic trial of last week was probably Thursday’s Chester Vase, which saw US Army Ranger – Aidan O’Brien’s most prominent colt in the betting for the Derby – make his second start, in the race.
2016 April
  • Sat, Apr 30, 2016
    2000 Guineas: Fighting On The Front Line
    The unbeaten and unbeatable Frankel was 2/1-on when winning the 2000 Guineas in 2011, and as this year’s renewal looms Air Force Blue is edging ever nearer the same price.
  • Wed, Apr 27, 2016
    Punchestown Festival 2016: Day Two Preview
    Don Cossack's unfortunate withdrawal after a tendon injury sustained in his last piece of work appears to leave Cue Card with outstanding claims in the Grade 1 Punchestown Gold Cup.
  • Mon, Apr 25, 2016
    Punchestown Festival 2016: Day One Preview
    Trainer Willie Mullins is chasing a fourth success in the Grade 1 Boylesports Champion Chase and there's no doubt that the race revolves around his classy chaser Vautour.
  • Wed, Apr 13, 2016
    Scottish Grand National: Mullins To Have The Measure Of Ayr Rivals
    The Scottish Grand National takes centre stage at Ayr on Saturday and, after an Aintree version that failed to provide a telling blow for either yard with hopes of claiming the trainers’ championship, the £210,000 on offer for this weekend’s big race could prove decisive.
  • Tue, Apr 12, 2016
    Ratings Update: Aintree Special
    Ben Fearnley takes you through all of the latest Timeform ratings after Aintree's Grand National meeting, as well as Leopardstown's first Flat action of the season.
2016 March
  • Thu, Mar 31, 2016
    Lincoln Handicap: Express To Deliver For Mcmahon On Town Moor
    The Lincoln may no longer play a part in determining the year’s champion jockey, but the season’s leading title contenders will still be doing their utmost to try and land the £100,000 Betway Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster on Saturday.
  • Tue, Mar 15, 2016
    Cheltenham Festival Day One: The Power of Pantomime
    In the first of his daily Cheltenham previews, chief correspondent Jamie Lynch examines the dramatic course of events during rehearsals for the Champion Hurdle cast and the leading lady who now finds herself centre stage.
  • Tue, Mar 15, 2016
    Ratings Update: Clouds puts rivals in the shade at Kelso
    Most eyes this weekend were on Many Clouds who got a second chance to put the finishing touches to his Grand National preparation in the listed Premier Chase at Kelso on Sunday, the meeting having been rearranged from eight days earlier (waterlogged).
  • Sat, Mar 12, 2016
    Cheltenham Festival Day Four: Boy Bands of Gold
    Previewing the fourth and biggest day of Cheltenham, Jamie Lynch turns Simon Cowell by looking at the principal players in a different way, reflecting on them and how they reflect on you
2016 February
  • Fri, Feb 26, 2016
    Time for More of That
    No More Heroes might have been an unlucky loser in last year’s Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle.
  • Fri, Feb 19, 2016
    Ryanair Chase Preview: No grey area with Al Ferof
    If Vautour runs in this race he’ll win, but his connections seem keen on giving him every chance of lining up in the Gold Cup, despite the fact they also have last year’s runner-up Djakadam for that race.
  • Tue, Feb 02, 2016
    Ratings Update: Alan King for a day
    The logical place to start is the Festival Trials meeting at Cheltenham last Saturday, which featured five graded races on its seven-race card.
2016 January
  • Mon, Jan 25, 2016
    The Timeform Knowledge: In Summary
    It has been a long old haul, for the writer, but hopefully not the reader! The Timeform Knowledge series started in May 2015 on a fortnightly basis and has now come to its conclusion, nearly nine months on.
  • Tue, Jan 19, 2016
    2015 Global Rankings
    The final top 40 for 2015 includes horses trained in nine different countries.
  • Tue, Jan 19, 2016
    Ratings Update: Hercules shows Mullins’ strength
    There’s little real change to report this week, with the only division that looks much different being the staying novice chasers, though No More Heroes (155p) and More of That (151p) still lead the way.
  • Mon, Jan 11, 2016
    The Timeform Knowledge - In-Play Betting
    In-play betting is such a major feature of horseracing in Britain and Ireland in the modern era that it is easy to forget that it did not exist until relatively recently, while it still does not exist in plenty of other jurisdictions around the world.
  • Sat, Jan 09, 2016
    Jamie Lynch: A Walk In The Park for Min?
    The thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended not on experts, technicians or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby.
  • Wed, Jan 06, 2016
    Lanzarote Handicap Hurdle - Happy New-land!
    Since the Lanzarote was upgraded to listed status in 2013, the race has been won by Oscara Dara, Saphir du Rheu and Tea For Two, the last pair both Grade 1 winners since.
2015 December
  • Tue, Dec 22, 2015
    Thistle prove a tough nut to crack
    It was meant to be Saphir du Rheu (161), the Stewart-owned chaser reverted to hurdles after the Hennessy, that brought to mind Big Buck’s on Saturday.
  • Tue, Dec 15, 2015
    Faugheen has nothing to fear from the new Guard
    The International Hurdle may have been one of four races at Cheltenham on Saturday which attracted fewer than eight runners, but it was still a contest high in intrigue, largely due to the return of Triumph Hurdle winner Peace And Co.
  • Wed, Dec 09, 2015
    Champagne moment in Cheltenham's big handicap
    The December Gold Cup, or Caspian Caviar Gold Cup to give it its current name, falls a month after the crown jewel of the Cheltenham Open Meeting, the Paddy Power Gold Cup, and naturally tends to feature many of the same protagonists.
  • Fri, Dec 04, 2015
    Moscow Flyer wins memorable Tingle Creek
    Ahead of Saturday's Betfair Tingle Creek, Tony McFadden looks back on Moscow Flyer's defeat of Azertyuiop and Well Chief in one of greatest races of all time.
2015 November
  • Fri, Nov 27, 2015
    King George VI Chase - The Timeform View
    The 2015 King George VI Chase is shaping up to be a cracker with the likes of Vautour, Don Cossack, Cue Card and dual-winner Silviniaco Conti all being aimed at the race.
  • Fri, Nov 27, 2015
    One big Doubt over Saphir du Rheu's chances
    For the second week running we were promised a moment of reckoning among the staying chasers and for the second week running we’ve been left disappointed.
2015 October
  • Thu, Oct 29, 2015
    Golden Horn: Career of a champion
    Tony McFadden looks back on the remarkable career of Golden Horn who is set to retire after competing in Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Turf.
  • Tue, Oct 20, 2015
    Ratings Update: British Champions Day 2015
    The subject of the Betfair Million came up again last week with the announcement that it will be revived, this time by Jockey Club Racecourses and dubbed jumps racing’s ‘Triple Crown’.
  • Tue, Oct 13, 2015
    Air Force Blue makes juvenile history
    As a meeting that has only two Group 1s among its 14 races, the long-term success of the Future Champions Festival will probably rest with how much gold finds its way into the pans of the Fillies’ Mile and Dewhurst Stakes.
  • Sat, Oct 10, 2015
    Plenty of Emotion in Godolphin and Ballydoyle rivalry
    'Everyone’s calling it the ‘Clash Of The Titans’ between ourselves and Air Force Blue,' said Charlie Appleby. 'It will be exciting and it’s just what Ballydoyle against Godolphin clashes used to be like.'
  • Wed, Oct 07, 2015
    Godolphin-Coolmore clash is one to savour
    The precedent for the Dewhurst was set very early on. In fact, the first four winners of the race – first run in 1875 – went on to win a classic.
  • Sat, Oct 03, 2015
    Jamie Lynch: Vive La Trevolution!
    As Treve stands on the brink of history in Sunday’s Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Jamie Lynch looks at the wider issue of the march of the mares in modern-day racing.
2015 September
  • Sat, Sep 26, 2015
    A curveball for Shalaa to knock out of the Middle Park?
    It’s a brilliant rule, heightening the drama within the sport and the sport within the drama, and it’s a rule that not only cost Bondi Beach the St Leger but also robbed Jack Hobbs of the Derby, Storm The Stars the Irish Derby and Kingfisher the Gold Cup.
  • Mon, Sep 14, 2015
    Sectional Debrief: Ladbrokes St Leger 2015
    The 2015 Ladbrokes-sponsored St Leger – a leg of the QIPCO British Champions Long-Distance Series – is likely to be remembered as much for what went on off the track, in the race’s aftermath, as for what took place on it.
  • Sat, Sep 12, 2015
    News of the world
    Jamie Lynch takes in all the big races across a truly international weekend, with the potential top-class five-way at Leopardstown his highlight.
  • Thu, Sep 10, 2015
    The State of the Surface at Chelmsford City Racecourse
    The racecourse that is located somewhere near Braintree in Essex – whether referred to as Great Leighs, as it was originally, or Chelmsford City, as it is now – has seldom been long out of the news.
  • Wed, Sep 09, 2015
    Storm can gain deserved Classic success
    After Aidan O’Brien slightly scaled down his overwhelming presence in Doncaster’s St Leger, the final Classic of the British Flat season has really taken shape over the last few days.
  • Tue, Sep 08, 2015
    Twilight could challenge Muhaarar at Ascot
    As our recent investigation to determine the best sprint in Europe showed, overall, Newmarket’s July Cup has seen the best sprint performances on Timeform Ratings so far this century.
  • Mon, Sep 07, 2015
    Cognitive Biases and Psychology of Betting
    It is difficult to be involved in betting for any length of time and to any degree of seriousness without considering the role played in the activity by cognitive biases and psychology.
  • Sat, Sep 05, 2015
    Motion can get Jellicle back on the Ball
    As in so many previous years, this Saratoga meeting has produced its fair share of shock results, probably headed by American Pharoah’s dramatic reversal in last week’s Travers Stakes.
2015 August
  • Sat, Aug 08, 2015
    Shergar Cup Preview: 10 matches made in heaven
    Katie Hopkins called the show awkward and disturbing, so it can’t be all bad. Married At First Sight is like the racing breeding industry, without the money sloshing around.
2015 July
  • Tue, Jul 28, 2015
    Ratings Update: King George winner Posts career best
    The absence of Golden Horn – who was withdrawn on the day due to concerns about the going – deprived the 2015 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes of its one proven top-class performer.
  • Mon, Jul 20, 2015
    My Timeform: Newmarket July Meeting eye-catchers
    Wordcraft may have lost her unbeaten record when finishing third in a well-contested seven-furlong fillies’ handicap, but she shaped very well and is likely to bounce back to winning ways soon.
  • Sat, Jul 18, 2015
    The Top Two-Year-Olds of 2015
    With Royal Ascot and Newmarket’s July meeting behind us, we reveal which European-trained juveniles have achieved the highest Timeform ratings so far this season.
2015 June
  • Wed, Jun 24, 2015
    Ratings Update: Royal Ascot 2015
    Though Royal Ascot doesn’t exactly bisect the British turf season, it is undoubtedly its biggest turning point.
  • Thu, Jun 18, 2015
    Sectional Debrief: Royal Ascot day one
    The opening day of Royal Ascot 2015 – always a rare treat for Flat racing fans from around the world – was one of the most eagerly awaited of recent years
  • Wed, Jun 10, 2015
    Ratings Update: Derby and Belmont Stakes
    The Derby may not have had the look of a vintage renewal beforehand, but there’s little doubt we saw an above-average winner in Golden Horn, one who will take all the beating wherever he turns up for the rest of the campaign.
  • Mon, Jun 08, 2015
    Sectional Debrief Special: 2015 Investec Oaks
    There is an understandable tendency to write off races won by unconsidered outsiders as “flukes”, but there are good reasons not to do so with this year’s Investec-sponsored Oaks at Epsom.
  • Tue, Jun 02, 2015
    Ratings Update: Muthmir motors towards King's Stand
    There can be few horses in training as likeable as Clever Cookie, and Peter Niven’s stable star advertised his Ascot Gold Cup claims with an authoritative success in the 14-furlong listed event at York on Saturday.
2015 May
  • Thu, May 21, 2015
    Temple Stakes: Don't Pretend We Didn't Warn You
    The all-weather divides opinion like few other topics even in racing’s dysfunctional family and there is sure to be much more discussion on the way once the Northern all-weather track debate begins again.
  • Sat, May 16, 2015
    Three for your tracker from the weekend
    One that’s left Sir Michael Stoute will rarely enter the notebook after one run, though you fancy that not even ex-Stoute charges will be immune to the reviving charms of David O’Meara.
2015 April
  • Mon, Apr 27, 2015
    Punchestown Preview: Three bumper horses to note
    Gigginstown have introduced a number of promising bumper horses this season, though there’s a chance that Disko might be the best of them, such is the impression he created when trouncing the opposition on debut.
  • Thu, Apr 09, 2015
    Sectional Debrief Special: AW Finals Day 2015
    The sun did not shine this time, and a capacity crowd became merely a near-capacity crowd, but in some respects the second AW Finals Day on Good Friday at Lingfield were even more successful than the first.
2015 March
  • Thu, Mar 26, 2015
    Dubai World Cup: Chrome Set To Shine On World Stage
    The 2015 Dubai World Cup will represent the first time the world’s most valuable race will take part on dirt since the switch to Meydan, and more controversially since the decision to change the surface from tapeta.
  • Tue, Mar 03, 2015
    Ratings Update: Sound placement from Nicholls and a Kelso revelation
    When the judge called Neptune Collonges as the winner of the 2012 Grand National, among Paul Nicholls’ first words were “That’s Henderson beat!”, as the realisation dawned on him that the £547k first prize would take him beyond his main rival’s reach.
2015 February


2020 February
  • Mon, Feb 03, 2020
    Asterion Forlonge Impresses At Leopardstown
    Asterion Forlonge bridged the gap from maiden company to Grade One class with little fuss to land a game all-the-way success in the Chanelle Pharma Novice Hurdle at Leopardstown.
  • Sun, Feb 02, 2020
    Bailey eyeing reynoldstown with two for gold
    Two For Gold could bid to extend his unbeaten record over fences in the Sodexo Reynoldstown Novices' Chase at Ascot before a potential trip to the Cheltenham Festival.
2020 January
  • Fri, Jan 31, 2020
    Barney Roy Shines In Dubai
    Barney Roy made an encouraging start to what could be a highly-profitable campaign when landing the (Group Two) Al Rashidiya at Meydan.
  • Fri, Jan 31, 2020
    Barney Roy Shines In Dubai
    Barney Roy made an encouraging start to what could be a highly-profitable campaign when landing the (Group Two) Al Rashidiya at Meydan.
  • Wed, Jan 29, 2020
    Big Guns Stand Their Ground For Irish Gold Cup
    Delta Work, Kemboy and Presenting Percy remain on course to renew rivalry at Leopardstown on Sunday, after all three stood their ground for the Paddy Power Irish Gold Cup.
  • Wed, Jan 29, 2020
    Dune Of Pilat Delivers For O'brien
    Dune Of Pilat looked a highly-promising three-year-old as he landed a facile victory for Irish trainer Joseph O'Brien in the Bombardier Golden Beer Novice Stakes at Southwell.
  • Mon, Jan 27, 2020
    De Bromhead Monitoring Leopardstown Ground
    Henry de Bromhead has admitted to concerns over drying ground for his team at Leopardstown - where Honeysuckle is all set to run in next weekend's Irish Champion Hurdle.
  • Sun, Jan 26, 2020
    Paisley In Fine Fettle Ahead Of Cleeve Defence
    Paisley Park faces a new challenger on Saturday in the Cleeve Hurdle as he comes up against If The Cap Fits in what promises to be an informative running of the Cheltenham feature.
  • Sat, Jan 25, 2020
    Buttons Primed For Yorkshire Rose Repeat
    Phil Kirby is optimistic Lady Buttons can maintain her fine record at Doncaster when she bids for back-to-back victories in the Yorkshire Rose Mares' Hurdle on Saturday.
  • Wed, Jan 22, 2020
    If The Cap Fits Ready For Paisley Park Clash
    Harry Fry has given If The Cap Fits the green light to tackle Paisley Park this weekend - but promising stablemate King Roland is as yet only a 'possible' on the same Cheltenham card.
  • Sun, Jan 19, 2020
    Defi Dominant In Clarence House
    Defi Du Seuil confirmed his superiority over Un de Sceaux in no uncertain terms and enhanced his Cheltenham Festival claims with a dominant performance in the Clarence House Chase at Ascot.
  • Sun, Jan 19, 2020
    Goshen A Class Apart At Ascot
    Goshen continued his relentless march towards the Triumph Hurdle when extending his unbeaten record with facile front-running success in the Ascot IJF Ambassador Programme Juvenile Hurdle.
  • Sun, Jan 19, 2020
    Minella Indo Off The Mark Over Fences
    Last year's Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle hero Minella Indo stuck to his task from the front to get off the mark over fences in the Eco Friendly Cups Beginners' Chase at Navan.
  • Sat, Jan 18, 2020
    Hobbs Expecting Defi To Thrive At Ascot
    Philip Hobbs believes Ascot will suit Defi Du Seuil perfectly as his stable star bids to add another Grade One to a growing list in the Matchbook Clarence House Chase on Saturday.
  • Sat, Jan 18, 2020
    Tizzard In No Rush With Thistlecrack
    Thistlecrack will not be rushed back into action as the problem which forced him to miss the King George VI Chase still holds him up.
2019 August
  • Thu, Aug 22, 2019
    Yorkshire Oaks preview: Enable can end on a high in Britain
    The Yorkshire Oaks boasts a roll of honour featuring some of the best fillies and mares of recent times, including Enable and Sea of Class, the last two winners who went on to fight out a thrilling finish to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 2018.