Horse Racing

Nassalam will not defend his Welsh Grand National crown at this year's event at Chepstow Racecourse on 27 December.

The Cheltenham Gold Cup is the most prestigious race of the British and Irish jump racing season and the upcoming running promises to be another superb contest.

The California Authority of Racing Fairs voted unanimously to withdraw its application for a racing meeting starting later this month at Pleasanton Fairgrounds.

The Northern California racing experiment will be coming to an end this week, effectively killing racing in the northern part of the state and having an impact statewide.

This week's recruiting updates: Chad Martin, Jasper Shepps, Ethan Campoli, Jackson Connelly, and Cole DeLattre.

Brothers Sean and James Bowen share the spoils at Cheltenham racecourse after a dead-heat is recorded between their horses.

Brothers James and Sean Bowen dead-heated on Quantock Hills and Teriferma respectively in the JCB Triumph Trial Juvenile Hurdle at Cheltenham.

Gemirande holds on to beat Madara and win the December Gold Cup at Cheltenham for Charlie Deutsch and Venetia Williams.

As we enter the fallow winter months without motorcycle road racing, BBC Sport NI casts an eye towards developments so far in terms of rider, manufacturer and team line-ups for the 2025 season and looks ahead to what announcements are still to come.

A new national body that regulates the safety and integrity of horseracing has become the target of a constitutional lawsuit that could shake up the sport. Last week, Churchill Downs Inc. and the New York Racing Association (NYRA) sued the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) and others in a Kentucky federal district court. Churchill …

The French jockey guided Poster to a nose victory in the 1 1/8 mile race for 2-year-olds at Aqueduct.

Jonbon lands the Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown to become the first back-to-back winner of the race since the great Kauto Star 18 years ago.

The jockeys' union says its female members are experiencing "inadequate safeguarding" after 80% of British racecourses missed a deadline to upgrade their facilities.

Irish jockey Jack Kennedy breaks a leg for the sixth time in his career as his mount Twoohthree dies in a fall at Fairyhouse.

Churchill Downs Inc. CEO Bill Carstanjen shook hands with the Hall of Fame trainer he once battled in court.

The track announced that there will be live racing on Friday and Saturday (Nov. 29-30), bringing a long tradition back to the track in Phoenix.

Rarely can a jockey’s career spanning just three years, 18 rides and one winner have been considered good autobiography material, but when the unheralded Karen Wiltshire won the Winterbourne Handicap at Salisbury on The Goldstone in 1978, it was a feat up there in its own way with Alex Greaves’s Nunthorpe, Hayley Turner’s July Cup and Rachael Blackmore’s Grand National.

Texas took control early and then finished strong in the fourth quarter for a 17-point win over Kentucky.

Geoff Lewis, the only Welsh jockey to ride a winner of the Derby, wins the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Welsh Horse Racing Awards.

Ed Chamberlin has said he was so hurt by criticism of ITV’s coverage of the deaths of three horses at Cheltenham, he wanted Match of the Day to come calling.

City Of Troy has become only the third Derby winner to receive the sport’s most prestigious accolade, Cartier Horse of the Year.

Tragedy overshadowed the Cheltenham meeting when three horses died – two in the same race.

Earlier this month and 52 years after the first of more than 4,000 winners, the greatest Flat trainer of the last half century, 10-time champion Sir Michael Stoute, retired in his own inimitable way; without fanfare, ceremony or interview.

Jockey Nico de Boinville has accused the Racehorse Owners Association of negativity after it complained that the input of its members in the new David Power Jockeys’ Cup had not been adequately appreciated.

Sir Alex Ferguson won the £1 million Bahrain International Trophy with Spirit Dancer for the second year in succession on Friday when the Richard Fahey-trained seven-year-old ran down Lead Artist late on to win by a length and a half.

In one of the most valuable initiatives in recent jump-racing history, the jockey who wins the most races on ITV between now and the Friday of the Grand National meeting in April, will win a staggering £500,000 first prize, a life-changing amount.

Alphonse Le Grande has been reinstated as the winner of this year’s Cesarewitch on a technicality after rider Jamie Powell was found to have used his whip nine times and not 10.

City of Troy, Charyn, Kyprios, Goliath. Anmaat, Economics or Bluestocking? Daily Telegraph readers now have the chance to have their say in the outcome of the 34th Cartier Awards, including the Flat season’s most prestigious accolade, Horse of the Year.

A former singer on a Melbourne Cup-themed cruise ship who appeared on television’s The Voice has won Australia’s biggest horse race in a huge 90-1 upset.

The Australia-trained gelding Knight's Choice has won the 164th running of Australia's premier horse race the Melbourne Cup at odds of 80-1. The unfancied five-year-old was well back turning for home in the two mile handicap at the Flemington racecourse. The race has prizemoney of US$5.6 million and drew horses from Ireland, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

“If you played it safe all the time, life would get very boring.” That was the somewhat rueful verdict of Aidan O’Brien after City Of Troy had finished only eighth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday without ever looking competitive.

Four-year-old colt More Than Looks gives trainer Cherie DeVaux her first Breeders' Cup win by running down the lead group in the Breeders' Cup Mile.

Sierra Leone finally becomes a winner, charging ahead of Fierceness to win the Breeders' Cup Classic on a day marred by the death of a horse in another race.

Aidan O’Brien has won most big races multiple times but his quest for a first Breeders’ Cup Classic continues after City Of Troy could finish only eighth in the $7 million race on dirt on Saturday night.

Kevin Attard's 5-year-old mare takes control in the final stretch to win the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.

Chad Brown's trainee started near the back of the pack but slowly worked up the field.

Sierra Leone delivers trainer Chad Brown's first career Breeders' Cup victory after storming down the stretch to defeat Fierceness and win the 2024 Breeders' Cup Classic.

Sierra Leone won the $7 million Breeders' Cup Classic by 1 1/2 lengths Saturday at Del Mar, ending a frustrating run of recent losses, including the Kentucky Derby. Ridden by Flavien Prat, Sierra Leone ran 1 1/4 miles in 2:00.78. “I’m so happy for the horse because he’s come up short a few times,” trainer Chad Brown said.

Trainer Kenneth McPeek gets his first Breeders' Cup Victory as his Horse of the Year candidate Thorpedo Anna easily handles the field to claim victory in the Distaff.

Trainer Saffie Joseph gets his first Breeders' Cup win in unlikely fashion when Soul of an Angel went from last to first to win the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint.

Owen Burrows' trainee Raqiya grabs the lead early and never lets go to earn a victory in the Goldikova Stakes with Hall of Fame jockey Frankie Dettori in the irons.

One of the myths that has developed over time in the Breeders’ Cup is that European turf horses cannot win against the Americans on dirt and this is why City Of Troy’s appearance in the $7 million Classic is the only talking point in town in the build-up to Saturday’s race.

Bob Baffert horses finish first, second and fourth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, giving the famed trainer strong potential options for the Kentucky Derby.

Here's how to watch the 2024 Breeders' Cup World Championships.