Jebel Ali-based trainer Dhruba Selvaratnam is eyeing a double as the Irishman saddles My Verse and Sarbola in the feature and maiden races respectively in the season’s curtain raiser up the hill at Jebel Ali racecourse on Friday. The first of the All-Thoroughbred six-race card kicks off at 2.10pm.My Verse, ridden by James Doyle, returns [...]
The Duchess of Cambridge’s parents attended Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot, where they avoided a vicious fight during which besuited men fought with table legs and Champagne bottles. At least five men were involved in the full-scale brawl, which saw stunned racegoers scatter in fear.One man wearing a tie was seen to swing a table [...]
United Kingdom: Royal Ascot hosts six of the top 15 rated thoroughbreds in the world this week when the five-day meeting, hosted by Queen Elizabeth II, starts on Tuesday.The pomp and ceremony will be ratcheted up several notches as Royal Ascot celebrates its 300th anniversary this year.The meeting commences with three consecutive Group 1 races, [...]
NEW YORK: Ruler On Ice ploughed his way through the mud to score an upset win in the 143rd running of the $1 million Belmont Stakes Saturday after the Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom almost threw his rider at the start. Perfectly ridden by Peru-born jockey Jose Valdivia, Ruler On Ice defied his generous odds [...]
Kieren Fallon will have to wait until 0900 BST on Saturday to find out whether he will be allowed to race in the Epsom Derby later that day. On Friday, a High Court judge rejected an attempt by the owners of Native Khan, the horse at the centre of the dispute, to stop him riding [...]
Joseph O’Brien rode his first Classic winner when making all of the running on Roderic O’Connor in the Abu Dhabi Irish 2,000 Guineas at the Curragh.The apprentice, two days from his 18th birthday, dictated affairs from the start
Leading Derby hopes Carlton House, Seville and World Domination all feature among a field of six runners for Thursday’s Dante Stakes at York.The 10-furlong race is a key trial ahead of the Epsom Classic on 4 June.Workforce lost in the 2010 Dante but won the Derby for trainer Sir Michael Stoute and owner Khalid Abdullah.This [...]
Frankel is set to be the hottest favourite for Saturday’s 2,000 Guineas since Nijinsky in 1970 after 15 colts were named in the big-race field.The one-mile race at Newmarket for three-year-olds is the first Classic of the British Flat racing season.Frankel, trained by Henry Cecil and ridden by Tom Queally, is unbeaten in five races [...]
Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai won the Boston Marathon men’s race in an unofficial world-record time of two hours, three minutes and two seconds.The previous world best of 2:03:59 was set by Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie in Berlin on 28 September 2008.But Mutai’s run does not qualify as an official world record because the Boston course is downhill [...]
LONDON: Female athletes with excessive levels of male hormones will require medical clearance to compete in women’s events under new rules adopted Tuesday by track and field’s governing body.The IAAF became the first international sports federation on Tuesday to approve new rules on the eligibility of female athletes with “hyperandrogenism” – a condition involving overproduction [...]
