All news by author: Jon Lees

Cheltenham Gold Cup runner-up Bravemansgame had been barred from running at Aintree but has been declared among the six runner field for the Punchestown Gold Cup

Dean Holland, 34, was reported to have died at scene after he was thrown to the ground when his mount ducked in and fell in the middle a race at Donald in Australia

The ex-Liverpool and England star Michael Owen opened up on the day 25-year-old Jessica Whalley collapsed and died after riding work at his Cheshire stables

Teo Nugent, 24, one of the rising stars of the saddle in Australia, was found guilty of careless riding at an inquiry into the incident which resulted in the death of the horse he was riding

Michelle Payne, the only female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup, opened up about her health battles and her experience following several concussions

Josh Moore was forced to retire from the saddle after contracting a life-threatening illness in hospital after suffering multiple injuries in a race fall

Cape Gentleman was seeking a dream Grand National win for American owner Pierre Manigault whose great uncle was the first US owner to capture the world famous race in 1923

Frankie Dettori began his final season in the saddle by riding his first winner in Britain of 2023 on his first day back on the opening day of Newmarket's Craven meeting

Jimmy Fyffe, who is a director of Dundee United Football Club and racehorse owner, said he was gutted after Hill Sixteen suffered a fatal injury in the Grand National

The 10-year-old, whose part owner Jimmy Fyffe is a director of Dundee United football club, was attended to by vets but could not be saved after coming down with jockey Ryan Mania

Corach Rambler won the headline 2023 Grand National race at Aintree to give trainer Lucinda Russell and jockey Derek Fox their second victory in the famous race

Dark Raven, trained by Willie Mullins, was competing in the Grade 1 Mersey Novices' Hurdle at Aintree when he was fatally injured when coming down at the seventh obstacle

A maths expert with a knack of picking long priced winners of the Grand National, including Mon Mome at 100-1, is backing a big outsider to win this year

Fennor Cross took his earnings past £100,000 with victory at the Grand National meeting at Aintree having originally been picked up cheaply from a second hand car website

Ain’t That A Shame has been backed into favourite for the Grand National, joining Delta Work, and replacing long time market leader Corach Rambler

Ain’t That A Shame, who will be ridden by history maker Rachael Blackmore in the Grand National, is the new favourite for the big race after being backed from 22-1

Envoye Special was competing in the Foxhunters' Open Hunters' Chase at Aintree on the opening day of the Grand National meeting when he unseated his rider James King

Pierre Manigault bought Cape Gentleman in the hope he could repeat his great-uncle's success with Sergeant Murphy who became the first American-owned winner of the Grand National in 1923

With 40 runners going to post, there is plenty of each-way value to be had on the betting front in the Grand National where most bookmakers are paying out on the first six

Ruby Walsh, who won the Grand National twice and finished in the first four on six other occasions, opens up on his two triumphs in a new video for Racing TV

Sir AP McCoy has created five artworks of his greatest moments, with paints infused with bits of turf and fences, which will do on display at the Grand National meeting at Aintree

Rachael Blackmore went down in the history books in 2021 when she became the first woman to ride the winner of the Grand National on Minella Times

Support for Grand National ante-post favourite Corach Rambler has started to dry up with last year’s runner-up Any Second Now the horse the bookies fear most

Jack Kennedy, stable jockey to three-time race winner Gordon Elliott, will not be fit to ride in the Grand National as Keith Donoghue is named on second favourite Delta Work

As Irish-trained runners bid for a fifth straight win in the Grand National, having claimed a 1-2-3 a year ago, here are five horses trained in Britain who could halt the sequence