Horse Racing

Three-time Cheltenham Festival winner Delta Work dies aged 12 following a bout of colic.

On a drizzly, cold February afternoon, Lilly Pinchin is at ease surrounded by an entourage of animals in her family’s farmhouse nestled in picturesque Cotswolds surroundings. She sits with a dog on her lap for some of the interview and at another point interrupts our chat to fetch one of the resident cats, placing him behind the Aga – one of his favourite places.

The Grand National is the only horse race truly captures the national imagination, with the millions glued to television screens for an average of 9 minutes and 10 seconds every April.

The Cheltenham Festival is the pinnacle of jump racing, bringing together the very best horses from Britain, Ireland and France for four days of unparalleled action and drama.

The Cheltenham Festival is beginning to come firmly into view and Telegraph Sport is here to help you sharpen up your punting portfolios ahead of the most exciting four days in jump racing.

The Cheltenham Gold Cup is the most prestigious race of the British and Irish jump racing season and the centrepiece of the Cheltenham Festival.

2025 Sunland Derby: Follow along for live coverage. The first of 10 races begins at 12:25 p.m. Thev Sunland Derby begins at: 4:17 p.m.

Irish jockey Michael O’Sullivan has died at the age of 24 as a result of the injuries he sustained in a fall during a race 10 days ago, the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) announced on Sunday.

O'Sullivan, aged 24, who has ridden 90 winners in Ireland and five in Britain, and his mount Wee Charlie were one of three fallers at the final fence in the second race on the February 6 card. O'Sullivan was treated on the course before being airlifted to hospital, where he was placed in intensive care. "Michael sadly passed away in the early hours of Sunday morning surrounded by his loving family in Cork University Hospital," Dr Jennifer Pugh, Chief Medical Officer of the IHRB, said in a statement.

Michael O’Sullivan, the Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey, has died from head injuries sustained in a horror last-fence fall at Thurles on February 6.

Irish jockey Michael O'Sullivan has died aged 24 after a fall at Thurles earlier this month.

The jockey had been in hospital for 10 days.

Jockey Sean Bowen rode his 1000th winner despite being allergic to horses.

New Mexico regulators have suspended two prominent horse trainers after tests turned up a banned medication in a dozen racehorses that competed in one of the world’s most recognized and richest quarter-horse events.

Every day starts the same for the Boldridge family: grooming, cleaning and taking care of their horses. “Our family has been involved with horses since 1870,” said Patty Boldridge, an equestrian rider in Atchison. “Our history goes back to slavery times; our family has always been horse trainers.” While their history of horse training and riding roots back to over a century, the family got ...

Last year’s Grand National was won in fine style by the Willie Mullins-trained I Am Maximus, who, all being well, will be back at Aintree this April to defend his crown.

All the weights and entries for the Grand National at Aintree on 5 April.

Last year's winner I Am Maximus is allocated top weight for the Grand National, which takes place at Aintree on 5 April.

Irish jockey Michael O'Sullivan remains in intensive care in hospital after a fall at Thurles last week.

California's racing future likely hinges on adding Historical Horse Racing machines, but they are similar to slot machines and face many hurdles.

Perry J. Bolton, who co-owned and raced competitive horses in Maryland’s steeplechase season and was one of the sport’s best-known figures, died Jan. 28 after suffering a heart attack at his Jupiter, Florida, home. He was 94 and also lived in Brooklandville. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, he was the son of Alfred “Jack” Bolton, a film executive and his wife, Ida Perry Black Bullock. He was a ...

Irish jump jockey Michael O’Sullivan was airlifted to hospital after a heavy fall at Thurles that resulted in racing being abandoned on Thursday.

A lawsuit filed by former Santa Anita public relations director Mike Willman accuses track executives of lying during the 2019 horse fatality crisis.

LISBON (Reuters) -Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini was named the 50th hereditary Imam, or spiritual leader, of Ismaili Muslims on Wednesday after the will of his late father Prince Karim Aga Khan IV was unsealed, the Aga Khan Development Network said. His father, known for his dazzling wealth and development work around the world, died in Lisbon, the seat of the Ismaili Imamat, at age 88 on Tuesday. The funeral is expected to take place in Portugal's capital "in the coming days", as soon as arrangements are finalised, the Imamat said on its website.

(Reuters) -The Aga Khan, known for his triumphs in horse racing, dazzling wealth and development work around the world, has died in Lisbon at the age of 88, according to the Aga Khan Development Network on X. The 49th hereditary imam or spiritual leader of the world's 15 million Ismaili Muslims, his name also became synonymous with success as a racehorse owner, with the thoroughbred Shergar among his most famous. The multi-millionaire, perhaps billionaire, also enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, characterised by private jets, a $200 million super-yacht and a private island in the Bahamas.

Led by Citizen Bull, last year’s 2-year-old champion male, each of the horses was nominated through a $600 payment to compete in the Kentucky Derby on May 3, Preakness on May 17 and Belmont Stakes at Saratoga on June 7.

Argentina's award-winning mare Polo Pureza will have her genes, or at least most of them, live on in five genetically edited horses designed to outrun the polo legend herself. Scientists at Argentine biotech firm Kheiron have produced the world's first genetically edited horses using a technique called CRISPR-Cas9. "We design their genome before they are born," said Gabriel Vichera, co-founder and scientific director of Kheiron.

Snap Decision began his career as a solid enough racehorse, running for Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey on tracks in New York and Florida. He needed to begin jumping, however, to find his true calling. Snap Decision switched to a steeplechase career under Maryland-based Hall of Fame trainer Jack Fisher in 2019, and after years of strong results, he recently won the Eclipse Award as North ...

Galopin Des Champs may have taken a significant step towards steeplechasing greatness by winning a third Irish Gold Cup on Saturday – a three-peat matched by State Man in Sunday’s dramatic but ultimately uninformative Irish Champion Hurdle – but if a star was born at this year’s Dublin Racing Festival it was their stablemate Kopek Des Bordes.

Declining purses, field sizes and foal crops puts California racing in trouble. But if racing in California dies, can the rest of the country succeed?

Trained by Bob Baffert, Citizen Bull ran a mile in 1:36.71 under jockey Martin Garcia, earning 20 qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby in May.

Captain Cook won the $250,000 Withers by 2 1/4 lengths at Aqueduct on Saturday, putting the 3-year-old colt squarely on the Kentucky Derby trail. Ridden by Manny Franco, Captain Cook ran nine furlongs in 1:51.83. “I’m not thinking about the Derby right now, but he did get the job done the right way,” said Dutrow, who won the 2008 Kentucky Derby with Big Brown.

Eclatant finished strong on the last stretch to win the Forward Gal Stakes at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida.

Galopin Des Champs storms to victory in the Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown for the third year running.

The Road to the Kentucky Derby continues this Saturday, February 1 on CNBC and Peacock. Live coverage begins at 4 PM ET.

Gavin Lerena, the leading jockey who rode a double at Ascot’s Shergar Cup in 2016, whipped a rival rider three times as a race in South Africa erupted into extraordinary violence.

Horse racing trainer Bob Baffert has multiple Kentucky Derby wins, two Triple Crown champions, and a career marked by both triumph and controversy.

Racehorse trainers are split over plans to boycott post-race interviews with ITV and the racing channels from February 1 unless they collectively receive £500,000 from media rights.

There is a belief that the best National Hunt trainers are in Ireland but if, like me, you do not buy into that theory, the logical conclusion is that the current imbalance in the quality of horses on either side of the Irish Sea is down to sourcing; finding the best jumpers and, as importantly, having an owner with the wherewithal to pay for them.

The Saffie Joseph jr. trainee ran 1 1/8 miles in 1:48.05 under jockey Irad Ortiz Jr., who earned his third career Pegasus victory.

White Abarrio, winner of the 2023 Breeders' Cup Classic, claims victory at the Pegasus World Cup Invitational, the richest race in the U.S.

Trained by Ken McPeek, she earned six Grade 1 victories last year, including the Kentucky Oaks, and finished second in the Travers to Fierceness.

1/ST CEO Belinda Stronach talks with Britney Eurton about horse racing in Florida and what she hopes happens with the industry in the state.

Constitution Hill ultimately made it 10 wins from 10 starts in the Unibet Hurdle at the Cheltenham Trials (and very nearly tribulations) Day with what was an exhibition round until he dramatically fluffed the last.