All news by author: Jon Lees

Jockey David Jacobson levelled the claim against leading South African rider Muzi Yeni after they were involved in two fights at Greyville racecourse

Tom Marquand was lucky to avoid a more serious injury when involved in a sickening fall in Sydney, and is set to fly home to be with wife Hollie Doyle who is also due for surgery

The three-time champion jockey will ride the Mick Appleby-trained Jupiter Express, which will be his first mount since he was suspended for alcohol and Covid breaches

The Jane Chapple-Hyam trained Group 1 winner Saffron Beach was considered not right enough to travel to Riyadh for the £16 million Saudi Cup and has been retired

Cheltenham Borough Council will use wee-repelling hydrophobic paint during the four day Cheltenham Festival to try to stop racegoers urinating in public

Subjectivist will contest the £2 million Red Sea Turf Handicap in Saudi Arabia after surviving a life-threatening leg injury which has kept him off the track for 20 months

Steal A March won over hurdles for the Queen at Worcester on the weekend of the Platinum Jubilee and has won again since for King Charles at Wincanton

Allaho was the hot favourite to complete a hat-trick of victories in the Ryanair Chase at the Cheltenham Festival but is now undergoing veterinary treatment for the rare condition

A Case Of You provided trainer Ado McGuinness with his first Group 1 win when landing the Prix de l'Abbaye in 2021 and took his earnings past £1 million by adding the Al Quoz Sprint

Frankie Dettori is riding in California this winter having expressed hopes of finding a horse he could ride in the Kentucky Derby in his retirement year but likely candidate Newgate is injured

Burt Bacharach, who has died aged 94, was an enthusiastic racehorse owner and breeder for more than 50 years and enjoyed his latest winner only last month at Santa Anita

Baracouda was trained by Francois Doumen to win the Stayers' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in 2002 and 2003 and won Ascot's Long Walk Hurdle a record four times

Gold Tweet surprised Dashel Drasher and Paisley Park plus his own trainer Gabriel Leenders when becoming France's first graded race winner at Cheltenham for 18 years

France Galop has announced the number of strikes allowed by jockeys will be cut to four from five this year following changes being introduced in Britain and Germany

The Cheltenham Gold Cup and Grand National-winning trainer accepted the charges but neither he nor the BHA were able to establish the source of the prohibited substance lidocaine

The four tracks nearest to the region worst affected by the earthquake which has killed more than 11,000 people are providing shelter and collecting essential supplies

Queen Mother Champion Chase favourite Edwardstone was lame for most of last week but the issue is not a major concern for his trainer Alan King ahead of the Cheltenham Festival

Three-time champion Flat jockey Oisin Murphy will have to undergo enhanced drink and drug testing when he returns to action from next Thursday, February 16, as a condition of his licence

Jump jockey Jamie Moore was taken to hospital in Brighton after taking a crashing fall from Auriferous, trained by father Gary Moore, with the horse suffering a fatal injury

Legendary jockey Frankie Dettori had identified Rocco as the most likely of his five children to ride professionally after pony racing but hopes they could ride against each other will not be realised

Honeysuckle, who suffered only the second defeat of her career in the Irish Champion Hurdle on Sunday, will not defend her crown in the Champion Hurdle which she had won for the last two seasons

Jump jockey Jamie Moore was riding for father Gary when Auriferous came down at the fourth last flight, throwing his rider to the ground who then appeared to be struck by a following runner

Leading rider Tina Comignaghi suffered a broken ankle in the race fall in New Zealand in which four horses and their jockeys came down including Megan Taylor

Martin Harley left Newmarket last year to continue his career in Queensland, Australia where he had ridden five winners before he was seriously injured in a mid-race fall

The three-time champion jockey Oisin Murphy's suspension for misleading the BHA when he broke Covid rules in 2020 and failing two alcohol breath tests is due to expire next week