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Two South African star performers in Dean Kannemeyer’s Gimme A Prince and the Vaughan Marshall champion 3yo One Stripe, who runs in Sunday’s HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap, feature in the first edition of the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2025
Veteran jockey Frankie Dettori says he feels ‘embarrassed’ after he filed for bankruptcy having been unable to reach agreement with His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs over a long-running case of tax avoidance
Lyle Hewitson removed luck from the equation aboard Highland Rahy and the rider found a willing partner as Francis Lui’s galloper secured a first Hong Kong win
Day 3 at the Cheltenham Festival is headlined by two Group 1 features – the Ryanair Chase and the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle
Bookmakers were spared an estimated payout of £50million on an opening day of the Cheltenham Festival on Tuesday that saw the previously-unbeaten Constitution Hill crash out of the Champion Hurdle and Majborough beaten in the Arkle
Mark Newnham is aiming to fulfil the wish of having a runner in the BMW Hong Kong Derby when Talents Ambition bids for the Class 3 Ap Lei Chau Handicap on Wednesday at Happy Valley
The 2025 Cheltenham Festival gets underway – watch all the strid-by-stride action on Gallop TV
The tongue-twistingly named sprinter was bred and is owned in South Africa, trained by a US-based Brit and will be ridden by a French-based Belgian
Former Mike de Kock-trained SA bred star Gimme A Nother may have relinquished her seven run unbeaten record but made a top-class North American debut after an eleven month break
Bundle Award charged into HK$26 million BMW Hong Kong Derby calculations with a brilliant victory in the Class 2 Carpenter Handicap
A gelding by I Am Invincible returned the highest price at the 2025 Hong Kong International Sale at Sha Tin after fetching a bid of HK$5 million
Superlative Stakes winner and Classic-placed Gustav Klimt will stand at Heversham Park Farm in South Africa, having stood at Haras d’Annebault most recently
