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 (...)

A small but select Irish team will be in action on Day One of Royal Ascot tomorrow with Dawn Approach and Magician’s eagerly-anticipated St James Pala(...)

Is it too soon after Take Shelter – our very favourite film of 2011 – to go running back to Michael Shannon for another interview? Hell, no. Around th(...)

Victory for Zand in tomorrow’s Curragh feature could hold much more significance for John Oxx than its black-type Listed status as the world famous tr(...)

As Dawn Approach powered past the 2,000 Guineas winning-post at Newmarket on Saturday, it felt a bit like the old line about buses: you wait fo(...)

A boy of five has shot dead his two-year-old sister in the US with a rifle he was given as a present. Their mother told police in Kentuc(...)

Lines Of Battle is rated as low as 14 to 1 on this side of the Atlantic to create history in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby but American layers beli(...)

Considering Willie Mullins’s big-race reach now extends as far as Japan, there looks to be zero advantage in taking the champion trainer on in(...)

It wasn’t spectacular and didn’t impress everyone, but Battle Of Marengo’s PW McGrath Ballysax Stakes victory yesterday could (...)

As US president Barack Obama made an emotional public appeal for political support on tighter gun controls in a speech on Monday evening in Con(...)