All news by author: Jon Lees

After providing King Charles and Queen Camilla with their first Royal Ascot success, Desert Hero is now a St Leger candidate after winning at Goodwood

On the day the brilliant Paddington claimed his fourth Group 1 win in a row in the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood, trainer Aidan O’Brien remembered Willie O’Gorman

The Mick Appleby-trained two-year-old could be supplemented for the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes at York this month after adding to his Royal Ascot success

Frankie Dettori, Willam Buick and Oisin Murphy among five riders grilled about their riding after Quickthorn romped to a six length victory

Trainer Nicky Henderson has revealed that star chaser Shishkin is spending his summer break with Zara Tindall learning a different discipline

Jockey Jim Crowley used his whip nine times, three strokes over the limit, when winning the £1.25 million King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes on Hukum at Ascot

Frankie Dettori was due to retire in November after riding in Australia but has now extended his farewell tour into December so he can partner Goodwood winner Kinross in Hong Kong

Richard Mullen, the two UAE champion jockey, was riding the Charlie Appleby-trained Breeders' Cup Turf winner in a race at Saratoga when the horse came down

Diego Dias, who is based in Ireland and only licensed for four months, struck with Mansa Musa in the second race of day one of the Glorious Goodwood festival

The five day Glorious Goodwood horse racing festival opens on the picturesque Sussex Downs and we have highlighted five of the potential stars of the meeting which will be shown live on ITV

Betsy Williams, the six-year-old daughter of jumps trainer Christian Williams, was diagnosed in the week of the Cheltenham Festival and has now started chemotherapy

Windsor racecourse has not staged regular jump racing since 1998 but will return to the winter schedule with a small number of fixtures during the 2024-25 season

Vincent Ho, best known for his association with superstar horse Golden Sixty, was due to make his debut at Glorious Goodwood but has been ruled out by an injury sustained in Japan

Adayar, who the Derby in 2021, went on to become the first horse since Galileo to win the Epsom Classic and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in the same season

In what is being billed as the Flat race of the season, Derby winner Auguste Rodin heads an all-star line-up for the £1.25 million King George VI and Queen Elizabeth QIPCO Stakes at Ascot

Jason Servis trained Maximum Security to win the $20 million Saudi Cup in 2020 but weeks later was arrested by the FBI investigating a widespread doping conspiracy

Joanna Mason had started the season strongly with 17 winners and was on course for her best year when she was injured in a freak accident on the gallops

Andrea Atzeni has ridden nearly 1,200 winners in Britain but will leave the country after the York Ebor Festival to take up a contract in Hong Kong

Abel Cedillo's handling by track staff after he had a fall during a race at Del Mar has drawn criticism from both the jockey and social media users

Kevin Stott, who rides Royal Ascot winner King Of Steel in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth QIPCO Stakes, was scouted by Spurs when he was a schoolboy

Sean Levey missed eight days of riding before a second test showed the Classic-wnning jockey had not taken a prohibited substance before he was due to ride at Sandown last September

Nineteen-year-old Tayla Mitchell drew universal admiration for staying aboard Yellow Jersey after the favourite tried to buck her off in the middle of a race

Tom Buckley was riding to victory on the 3-1 favourite Ranco at Worcester when he stood up too early to celebrate thinking he’d already crossed the finish line

The High Street lender turned down a trainer's application for a loan saying “lending to businesses associated to racecourse trainers currently falls outside the bank’s appetite”.

Iqbal Khan, an apprentice claiming seven pounds making his debut in Ireland, hit his mount 13 times in the final furlong before finishing second at Killarney