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Séamie Heffernan wins the Beresford Stakes on Luxembourg at the Curragh in September. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
Aidan O’Brien’s Epsom Derby favourite Luxembourg heads Futurity field
  • Racing
  • October 21, 2021, 15:56

Hot favourite Luxembourg is set to face seven rivals in the Vertem Futurity Trophy at Doncaster on Saturday. Impressive on his racecourse debut at Ki(...)

Colin Keane has six mounts at Navan on Wednesday as he looks to create a new Irish record of winners in a Flat season. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho
Colin Keane has history in his sights with six mounts at Navan

Colin Keane will have history in his sights when he teams up with six mounts at Navan on Wednesday. With 125 winners under his belt already this seas(...)

Yutaka Take riding Deep Impact before the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in 2006. The Japanese favourite fluffed his lines by finishing only third. Those at Longchamp that day recall stunned Japanese fans weeping as they left the grandstand. Photograph: Alain Benainous/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Ever-hopeful Japanese still determined to crack the Arc code

This weekend 15 years ago 22 million Japanese viewers tuned in to watch the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. That’s almost 20 per cent of Japan’s pop(...)

Tarnawa, ridden by Christophe Soumillon, crosses the finish line to win the Breeders’ Cup on November 7th, 2020, in Lexington, Kentucky. Photograph: Bobby Ellis/Getty Images
Tarnawa could be leading player for Weld in Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe

Tarnawa has a chance to propel Dermot Weld into exclusive company in Sunday’s Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe but the Irishman has pointed to another (...)

Christophe Soumillon has been chosen to ride favourite Tarnawa in Sunday week’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp. Photograph: Lo Chun Kit /Getty Images
Christophe Soumillon to ride Tarnawa in Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe

Christophe Soumillon will ride the favourite Tarnawa in Sunday week’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp. Dermot Weld confirmed on Tuesday that C(...)

Snowfall ridden by Frankie Dettori won the British Oaks at Epsom by 16 lengths and has been installed as a 2-7 favourite for Saturday’s Irish Oaks at the Curragh. Photograph: John Walton /Getty Images
Snowfall set to be red-hot favourite to complete Oaks double at the Curragh

Snowfall is set to start one of the shortest Classic favourites in years at the Curragh on Saturday by bidding to become the 15th filly to complete th(...)

William Buick onboard Hurricane Lane comes home ahead of Frankie Dettori onboard Lone Eagle to win the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
Hurricane Lane storms home to deny Lone Eagle and claim Derby honours

Hurricane Lane and William Buick got the better of Frankie Dettori’s mount Lone Eagle to record a one-two for cross-channel raiders in Saturday’s Duba(...)

Seamie Heffernan on High Definition wins the Alan Smurfit Memorial Beresford Stakes at the Curragh in August 2020. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
Irish Derby marks racegoers’ return to tracks for first time since pandemic

Ireland’s premier classic, the €1 million Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby, will be watched by 1,000 spectators at the Curragh on Saturday. The carefully s(...)

Shergar was stolen from Ballymany Stud in Co Kildare on the night of February 9th, 1983. File photograph: Matt Kavanagh
Vanilla Ice: ‘No story compares to the Shergar story’

Former rapper Vanilla Ice has described the story of the disappearance of Irish racehorse Shergar as the “most amazing story ever”. Shergar won the E(...)

Pyledriver ridden by jockey Martin Dwyer (right) wins the Coronation Cup at Epsom last Friday. Photograph: PA
Pyledriver likely to sidestep Royal Ascot and wait for King George

The hugely popular Coronation Cup winner Pyledriver is likely to sidestep next week’s Royal Ascot action and wait for a tilt at the King George in Jul(...)

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