There was irony in a JP McManus-owned horse putting a halt to the greatest streak of success ever enjoyed by Irish horses at Royal Ascot yesterday as (...)

The top stayer Solwhit will be a first runner at Auteuil for Co Limerick trainer Charles Byrnes when he lines up in tomorrow’s French Champion Hurdle (...)

Anyone in doubt about the ubiquity of camera-phone technology will have been disabused of their innocence by the horror of Woolwich last week w(...)

Champion jockey Tony McCoy is set to return to action at Ludlow tomorrow. He sustained broken ribs in a bad fall from Nicky Henderson’s Quanti(...)

Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has reported 20 per cent revenue growth so far this year, with online revenue up 29 per cent and an 8 per cent rise(...)

Hurricane Fly chases a remarkable four-in-a-row in today’s Rabobank Champion Hurdle and those bookmakers who reckon he may return his shortest(...)

The phrase ‘just a scratch’ is usually a dismissive term in the tough world of jump racing but a scratch cost Solwhit his chance of festival g(...)

Into each race meeting, a little rain must fall. It was too much to expect after Tuesday’s gloriously sunny opener to the National Hunt Festival at(...)

Solwhit attempts to emulate Sprinter Sacre today with a Cheltenham-Aintree-Punchestown hat-trick by taking the €170,000 Ladbrokes World Series(...)

There’s an irony in Willie Mullins supplying Davy Russell with the winner that might seal the jockeys championship but after Sir Des Champs landed (...)