All news by author: Jon Lees

Hollie Doyle, 26, Britain's leading female jockey, partnered Bradsell to victory in the Group 1 King's Stand Stakes, becoming the first to win a Royal Ascot Group 1 race

Paul Barber, who died aged 80 on Sunday, help put 14-time champion jumps trainer Paul Nicholls on the path to success and owned two Cheltenham Gold Cup wins

Givemethebeatboys was sold at auction in London on Monday for £1.1 million, turning a huge profit for previous owners Con and Theresa Marnane

Frankie Dettori will compete at Royal Ascot for the final time this week, with King Charles III and Queen Camilla expected to attend the glamorous horse racing meet

Royal Ascot has attracted its largest crop of overseas challengers in a while with horses travelling from Australia, the US, Hong Kong as well as Europe

Australian Michelle Payne, the first and only jockey to win her nations's biggest race, the Melbourne Cup, will be part of the ITV Racing team broadcasting at Royal Ascot

Javier Castellano has won two of America's three Triple Crown races, the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes this year, and will have his first ride in Britain in the Queen Mary Stakes

Kielan Woods, Jonjo O'Neill Jr, Paula Muir and Marco Ghiani were sentenced after committing repeated whip breaches over a period of six months

Artorius, who finished third in the Jubilee 12 months ago, is the joint favourite to capture the 6f sprint for trainers Anthony and Sam Freedman

Supporters of Animal Rising caused disruption at the Grand National in April and have continued to campaign against horse racing at other high profile fixtures

James McDonald has become a regular visitor to Royal Ascot where he has four wins and hopes to follow up last year's King's Stand Stakes success on Coolangatta

Frankie Dettori has topped the standings at the five-day Royal Ascot meeting seven times and is second favourite with bookmakers to do it for the eighth time

Comments made by Luke Murrell, director of Australian Bloodstock, about respected trainer Sheila Lavery after the purchase of Classic-placed New Energy were roundly condemned by leading racing figures

Four fancied horses in the £100,000 Dash were unable to break on terms with the rest of the field when the doors of their stalls opened fractionally late at Epsom

Punters backed Frankie Dettori to win the Betfred Derby for the third time on his final ride in the race but his mount Arrest was tenth in the race won by Auguste Rodin

Newsboy predicts that Military Order will have too many guns for his opponents in the Derby and is confident enough to have made the colt his Nap

Churchill Downs, which staged the Kentucky Derby in May, has experienced an alarming spate of horses deaths since it opened in March

Three-time champion jockey Oisin Murphy had high hopes of winning the Oaks but had to sit out the race when Running Lion broke out of the stalls

Frankie Dettori has won his second British Classic of the year when capturing the Oaks as a result of which his Derby ride Arrest has been cut to favourite for the £1.5 million race

With Frankie Dettori riding in the Derby for the final time before he retires, money is pouring in for his big race mount, Arrest, according to bookmakers

Frankie Dettori will partner Soul Sister in the Betfred Oaks at Epsom on Friday, his 27th and final mount in a race he has already captured six times

Frankie Dettori will ride in his last Derby at Epsom on Saturday hoping to clinch his third victory in the historic race before he retires at the end of the season

The Derby favourite Auguste Rodin will start the race from the same starting stall as ten previous winners of the Epsom Classic since stalls were introduced in 1967

Auguste Rodin leads Aidan O’Brien’s bid to extend his record of Derby wins to nine while Frankie Dettori rides in the race for the last time on Arrest

Auguste Rodin is set to start favourite for the Derby at Epsom on Saturday despite finishing third last in his only race of the year in the 2,000 Guineas