Category: Horse Racing

Some of racing’s most famous names have paid tribute to new British champion jumps trainer Willie Mullins. Ruby Walsh described Willie Mullins as “somebody people should aspire to be” after the trainer emulated the great Vincent O’Brien by winning the UK trainers’ championship. A Sandown double via Minella Cocooner and Impaire Et Passe provided a...

Willie Mullins has become the first Irishman in 70 years to win the British jump trainers’ championship. He held off rivals Dan Skelton, who finished second, and defending champion Paul Nicholls following the season finale at Sandown. Mullins’ 4-6 favourite El Fabiolo finished second in the Celebration Chase, four lengths behind Nicky Henderson’s Jonbon, but...

Willie Mullins will look to clinch the British jump trainers’ championship at Sandown on Saturday – and become the first Irishman to do so in 70 years. The legendary Vincent O’Brien was the only other Ireland-based trainer to achieve the feat, winning for a second time in 1954. Dan Skelton and 14-time champion Paul Nicholls...

Through a new partnership between 1/ST Racing and the British Jockey Club, the winner of Santa Anita’s Grade 2, $200,000 Charles Whittingham Stakes on May 4 will receive an automatic entry into England’s Coral-Eclipse Stakes (G1) July 6 at Sandown Park. Nominations for the Charles Whittingham stakes close Thursday The aim of the initiative, which...

Watch: Footage from Wednesday shows how chaos unfolded in London when Army horses bolted It is “too early to know” whether two Household Cavalry horses will return to official duties after they were injured when they bolted through London. Seven horses were spooked by a loud noise in Belgravia and four threw off their riders...

Since training I Am Maximus to win the National at Aintree 11 days ago, to become a real live contender, Mullins has made no secret of his desire to go all out and financially outflank Britain’s top trainers. The plan, ever since Aintree, was “to enter everything qualified in whatever races and see what happens”....

First responders rushed to the scene and treated two people for injuries, the London Ambulance Service said. More paramedics were called to nearby Buckingham Palace Road, where another of the riders was thrown from a horse, it said. Crews there treated someone in the street behind a blue tarpaulin. The horses galloped for miles. And...

The British Horse Racing Authority (BHA) has launched HorsePWR, a digital hub concentrating on a communications campaign to help build awareness around equine welfare in racing. The new central resource hub puts the Thoroughbred at the forefront of users’ minds and aims to help share data and talk about their purpose, lives, safety and risks...

Jamie Snowden’s Git Maker – the lowest-priced finisher at 8-1 – came third while Mullins-trained Klarc Kent (50-1), Ontheropes (66-1) and Spanish Harlem (12-1) finished fourth, fifth and sixth respectively. Ballygrifincottage (16-1), trained by Dan Skelton, Mullins’ closest challenger for the champion trainer title, was seventh. Despite picking up so many places in the biggest...

ITV extends agreement to broadcast free-to-air horse racing in the UK. ITV has extended a deal to continue its free-to-air broadcast Horse racing United Kingdom by the end of 2026. The three-year deal covers major events such as the Grand National, Royal Ascot, the Derby and the Cheltenham Festival, the 2023 edition of which takes...

Filming will begin in December for a six-part behind-the-scenes docuseries following UK horse racing for ITV. Airing on ITV and ITVX and focusing on the 2023/24 Jumps season, the series is being produced by South Shore with support from Flutter and Racecourse Media Group. Other horse racing stakeholders such as the Professional Jockeys’ Association and...