Royal Ascot

Ascot keen to woo Shocking

ABC (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Royal Ascot organisers are targeting Melbourne Cup winner Shocking for the Hardwicke Stakes in June.

Melbourne Cup winner Shocking targeted by Royal Ascot

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009

Melbourne Cup winner Shocking is on a growing wishlist of potential Royal Ascot raiders for 2010.

Join 'Horses for Heroes' ride at Ascot

yourhorse.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009

Riders can sign up now to be part of the massive ‘Horses for Heroes’ charity initiative.This huge event will see 2010 horses ridden from Ascot Racecourse, round Windsor Great Park and back before racing begins on Saturday July 10 next...

Dinner Dates Celebrated Its 20th Anniversary

Online Personals Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday

... years Dinner Dates has held matchmaking meals at swanky venues including the Ritz, the Dorchester, Royal Ascot and the Royal Regatta. Other activities have included golf, tennis and pigeon shooting excursions, trips to art galleries, museums and the theatre and holidays to China, Cologne and Portugal. Now after 20 years, Ms Marshall would be willing to sell the company to the...

Jockeying for position

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009

... especially impressive, because he spends weeks of the season abroad, riding for Aidan O’Brien at Ascot, Epsom, and Goodwood. He was in Paris for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, and is just back from Santa Anita, where he raced in the Breeders’ Cup.He won the Irish Derby this year with Fame and Glory. “That was a great day, great win, good horse. I rode Yeats when he won Royal Ascot,...

Tuesdays Horseracing Tips, 1 December

Racing Diary (Free subscription) | yesterday

By Carl Harris It’s December and it really is winter. My friend who lives in Hexham sent me a text to say it was snowing! The summer seems a long way off now doesn’t it? The all-weather flat cards are are a far cry from those at York and Royal Ascot, but the jumps season has been sensational so far. Jumping is the one thing that makes the winter enjoyable. Having said that I am focusing...

PETER SCUDAMORE: Here's why we're not left feeling Flat when it comes to jump racing

Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Flat racing has no finale that beats the Cheltenham Festival, whose four days now cultivate massive media coverage. Only the Grand National outstrips it and it matches Royal Ascot, whose place in the social calendar as much as its racing contribute to its profile.

Matthew Norman: No wonder the Queen raised an eyebrow while she read it

The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

... Fink Nottle with Madeleine Basset, or to wear a retina-cauterising white smoking jacket after Royal Ascot.In one respect Reginald Jeeves and Elizabeth Windsor are diametric opposites, the one being technically subservient but ruling the roost, and the other nominally boss but entirely powerless. What links them, however, is that they are older and far wiser than the person who effectively...

Sea The Stars Horse Of The Year

Racing Diary (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

... to look any further than Yeats for Champion Stayer. O’Brien’s stalwart brought the house down at Royal Ascot when becoming the first horse to win the Gold Cup four times. Here is an excellent tribute to Sea The Stars…..Perfection in Equine Form! Sea The Stars- The Best Ever? Sea The Stars- Horse of The Year 2009

• Sea The Stars voted Horse of the Year - Scotsman.com

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Mig's Journal (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009

John's party. The social turn-out of the season, equalled only by Royal Ascot and Princess Margaret's monthly orgies at Kensington Palace. Everyone that meant anything came, and herein is the list:- Lynn Rhodes Susan Rhodes Alison Dixon Jackie Myers Christine Dibb dear Laura Christine Whitethighs (Phyllis) Carol Smith Linda Smith Denise Akroyd Christopher Ratcliffe Andy Graham Ray? Peter...

Sea The Stars voted Horse of the Year

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

... to look any further than Yeats for Champion Stayer.O’Brien’s stalwart brought the house down at Royal Ascot when becoming the first horse to win the Gold Cup four times. July Cup winner Fleeting Spirit beat Total Gallery and Borderlescott to become Champion Sprinter.On a great night for Oxx, he was voted the 2009 Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award of Merit winner, a title for the person...

Ocean race stopover in Galway worth €55m to local economy

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009

... some 200,000 bed nights in the area in late May and early June. It had greater impact than the Royal Ascot, York race meet in 2005, the Open Golf championships in Scotland in 2006, and twice the impact of the Volvo 2008-9 race stopover in Singapore, the consultants say.An analysis of spectator identity indicates that some 52 per cent were from the region, and 17 per cent from elsewhere...

Gambling, Radiohead and Trusting the Signs

There's Your Karma, Ripe As Peaches (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

... Radiohead to get crack at Breeders' Cup Radiohead, the impressive winner of the Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot during the summer, has been sold to the New York-based owners of 2008 Kentucky Derby hero Big Brown for a crack at next month's Breeders' Cup Juvenile. IEAH Stables have purchased a controlling interest in Radiohead for an undisclosed fee, with current connections Carmen Burrell...

More Godolphin winners at Nottingham and Kempton?

oneXtwo Horse racing news (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009

... and they could well take the first two places. Alexandros, who has not run since Royal Ascot, but earlier finished runner-up in the Lockinge, stands out here on ratings. Smoky Oakey (Mark Tompkins/ Jimmy Quinn) could take the minor placing; he is owned by actor Judi Dench, who will be hoping to emulate her film star colleague Omar Sharif, owner of a group race winner yesterday in...

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ESPN (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

November 2, 2009, 8:05 PM ETWard confident in CannonballBy Marty McGeeWesley Ward already owes a debt of gratitude to Cannonball. The impetus behind Ward going to Royal Ascot in June was a pair of races for Cannonball, but what ended up happening was Ward being celebrated for a historic breakthrough with two other horses he took there."Cannonball was the horse that made it all happen,"...