Aidan O’Brien snaps up Frankie Dettori for St Leger at Doncaster

Trainer and jockey have each won the oldest Classic six times

Ghaiyyath set to add considerable sparkle to Irish Champions Weekend

World’s top-rated racehorse is one of 13 entries for Saturday’s Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown

Racing regulator happy with screening protocols despite high-profile breaches

Case involving Aidan and Donnacha O’Brien at Curragh an ‘unfortunate’ incident says IHRB

Donnacha O’Brien takes first Classic as Fancy Blue wins French Oaks

Irish raiders dominate Sunday's race at Chantilly and fill the first three places

Aidan O’Brien targets historic eighth Epsom Derby win with strong hand

There is a mouthwatering weekend of Classic action ahead in both England and France

Irish trainers weigh up options ahead of bonanza weekend of Classic action

Four Classics will be held in 24 hours between Epsom and Chantilly

Gold Maze could find the winning way out of a Derby full of imponderables

Jessica Harrington bidding to become first woman to train winner in race’s 154-year history

Aidan O’Brien lands 1,000 Guineas again on a Peaceful day at the Curragh

Favourite Albigna can’t get going as O’Brien adds Irish Classic to last weekend’s success

Albigna’s Group One pedigree gives Harrington edge in 1,000 Guineas

Donnacha O’Brien looking for a maiden Classic success on Saturday with Fancy Blue

Donnacha O’Brien gets off the mark with first training success

21-year-old enjoys first winner as Flower Garland gets home at Dundalk

Bookmakers on duty at Punchestown but may not take bets on every race

Donnacha O’Brien outlines training plans after announcing retirement from saddle

Champion flat jockey Donnacha O’Brien announces retirement

O’Brien plans to follow his older brother Joseph and his father Aidan into training

Nicholls tries to end O’Leary’s winning streak in Down Royal feature

2019 Irish flat season winds up at Naas on Sunday

Kameko is only competition to Ballydoyle team in Doncaster Futurity

Aidan O’Brien also targeting two French Juvenile Group One prizes

Moore partners Magic Wand for O’Brien’s assault on $5m Cox Plate

Master of Ballydoyle also saddles all but one of a dozen entries in the Vertem Futurity

Overwhelming Ballydoyle team could have just a single Futurity opponent

Kameko is only one of dozen Doncaster entries not trained by O’Brien

Magical tries to break O’Brien’s Champion Stakes duck

Moore skips ‘British Champions Day’ to partner Ten Sovereigns in Australia

Down Royal in ‘limbo’ over prospect of no-deal Brexit

Horses travelling from Britain told to take Liverpool-Belfast ferry route amid uncertainty

O’Brien sees Moore partnering Japan for assault on Arc

Ballydoyle also line up Anthony Van Dyck and Magical to halt Enable’s hat-trick bid

Innisfree win sees Donnacha O’Brien join unique roll of honour

Jockey is 10th to win Beresford Stakes at the Curragh for his father, trainer Aidan O’Brien

Buffer Zone bids to give Lyons-Keane team another major handicap victory

Credenza is top rated for Gowran feature at sole Irish weekend card

Mullins aims two at Europe’s richest flat handicap in York

No IHRB action taken over Some Neck’s Galway Plate withdrawal

Donnacha O’Brien aiming to fill in family gap with Numerian

Veteran Baraweez set for 11th Galway Festival start but best days may be behind him

Enable’s historic campaign starts with Coral Eclipse at Sandown

John Gosden’s star odds-on to see off Magical again as she begins her bid for Arc hat-trick

O’Brien triple-handed in pursuit of US Grade One glory at Belmont

Colin Keane odds on favourite to regain jockeys’ title from Donnacha O’Brien

O’Brien clan set to be central figures again in Royal Ascot drama

Aidan favourite to retain top trainer crown, while sons hoping to break new ground

Dettori set to light up Curragh’s new dawn on Too Darn Hot

New grandstand at HQ to be officially opened on Sunday by the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar

Twilight Payment finally cashes in with Saval Beg Levmoss Stakes success

Hayley Turner scores with Arthurian Fame on Leopardstown debut

Broome sweeps clean at Leopardstown

Aidan O’Brien lands a Ballydoyle 1-2-3 in Sunday’s Derrinstown Trial

Dundalk track chief dismisses welfare concerns about all-weather circuit

Chief executive confirms resurfacing contract is out to tender

Moore targets Dundalk feature with Western Australia

Ballydoyle’s number one saddles two rides for O’Brien in rearranged midweek fixture

Douvan set to miss National Hunt season with pastern problem

Willie Mullins confirms star chaser has suffered injury to same leg as last season

O’Brien aiming to identify possible classic stars for 2019

Magna Grecia favourite to give Irish trainer ninth win in Doncaster Futurity

Ballydoyle’s resources at full stretch around the globe

Donnacha O’Brien and Heffernan Newmarket-bound as Moore heads ‘Down Under’ for Everest

Laurens gamely holds Aidan O’Brien’s Happily at Newmarket

Sun Chariot stakes victory a fifth Group One of the season for Karl Burke’s stable star

Moore riding Mendelssohn points to ultimate Breeders Cup Classic ambition

The prestige for Aidan O’Brien of finally breaking his duck in America’s most valuable race is possibly even more incalculable than the value of the horse

Lady Kaya on course to give Sheila Lavery a first Group One

Meath trainer runs Breaking Story at Fairyhouse with Robbie Colgan onboard

Gordon Lord Byron to make Czech Republic bow on Saturday

Tom Hogan’s veteran 10-year-old primed for 91st career start across eight countries

Joe Schmidt’s Cosmic Horizon wins at Roscommon

Donnacha O’Brien guides 7-4 favourite home in Irish Stallion Farms Auction Race

Joe Schmidt’s Cosmic Horizon to run at Roscommon on Monday

Donnacha O’Brien takes ride on horse owned by Ireland rugby coach and keen racing fan

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