Rounding up the racing news from around Europe over the last week

Rounding up the events on and off the track in European racing over the last week

Rounding up the week's events in European racing

Recapping the highlights of an historic week in European racing

Emma Berry reflects on five days of top-class racing at Royal Ascot, including the Prince of Wales's Stakes won by Ombudsman.

William Haggas won the Derby 30 years ago with Shaamit and is back for more with Maltese Cross

Observing master trainer Aidan O'Brien at work

The brilliant Dancing Brave lit up the 1986 racing season for trainer Guy Harwood and owner Prince Khalid Abdullah

As always, Ireland and France have been quicker off the mark when it comes to the Flat turf season, and Britain joins them this Saturday with the opening meeting at Doncaster, which always provides pl...

The brilliant five-time Group 1 winner Attraction lives in retirement at the National Stud in Newmarket

Diego Velazquez has joined the roster at the National Stud in Newmarket

New trainer Lavinia Fabre recently saddled her first winner at Saint-Cloud and will soon train in partnership with her father, Andre Fabre.

The TDN's Emma Berry will succeed Simon Sweeting as chair of the British EBF in January 2026. Berry, who joined the Thoroughbred Daily News as European editor in 2015, previously worked as deputy edit...

Twenty years ago, Dubawi claimed his third Group 1 victory in the Prix Jacques Le Marois. On Sunday, Sajir, his third-generation male-line descendant, claimed his own first top-level win, also in Deau...

DEAUVILLE, FRANCE — There have been few more rapturous receptions to a winner in the usually reserved enclosure of Deauville than that given to Diego Velazquez on this sweltering Sunday afternoon. Sam...

DEAUVILLE, FRANCE — There have been few more rapturous receptions to a winner in the usually reserved enclosure of Deauville than that given to Diego Velazquez on this sweltering Sunday afternoon. Sam...

“We're enjoying it enormously.” Those are words racing needs to hear from every owner.  In the case of Mick and Janice Mariscotti, who have been in the game long enough to have experienced both good d...

Those old enough to have seen it may well go to the grave thinking they will never witness another race like it. Grundy vs Bustino, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes, 26 July 1975....

HOKKAIDO, Japan — Via a select bunch of his first foals, Equinox made a JRHA Select Sale debut every bit as explosive as his killer turn of foot on the track, with 23 of his youngsters sold for an ave...

Think of the West Country and one tends to picture wintry days and the big jumping yards, but amid the rolling hills of Devon sits one of the smaller Flat operations which routinely finds at least one...

The early part of last week was spent covering the JRHA Select Sale in Japan, a trip that is always illuminating, to an auction that remains extraordinary. Number one of the list of most surprising th...

Unbridled joy was present in bundles at Hamburg on Sunday as recent amateur-turned-apprentice Nina Baltromei urged Hochkonig to victory on the line in the 156th Deutsches Derby, denying the Karl Burke...

On the day that Kevin Prendergast was remembered at the Curragh in the naming of the International Stakes, and a day after Peter Easterby was laid to rest, another great of the training ranks was lost...

THE CURRAGH, Ireland — The sun came out as he came in. Lambourn, a dual Derby winner, just like his sire before him, and his grandsire before that.  He had to work for it, mind. This was no procession...

It has been a strangely discombobulating week in some respects. It started in Westminster last Monday with the All-Party Parliamentary Group issuing its stark warning of the triple threat to the indus...

ASCOT, UK — There may be cause for concern when it comes to the tumbling number of foals bred in Britain but, with Ascot festooned with the Union Jack, the first three races represented a terrific res...

NEWMARKET, UK — Colin Keane, Juddmonte's newly retained jockey, has wasted no time in familiarising himself with one of his leading mounts for Royal Ascot and was in Newmarket on Wednesday morning to ...

EPSOM DOWNS, UK — Back in those heady days of the early 1980s, Lord Howard de Walden's Slip Anchor slipped the field under Steve Cauthen to land the Derby by seven lengths and all felt right with the ...

“The Derby is the only thing that matters.” It's a pretty definitive opening gambit, even from a man whose words generally don't spend much time in the mincer.  Later, Jeremy Brummitt will temper this...

Poor old Kingman, eh? It was his bad luck to pitch up at Banstead Manor Stud in the year that all the fuss was about Frankel's first yearlings. Much of the interest in the intervening decade has been ...

Five years ago, Jacob Pritchard Webb's career as a jump jockey in France was brought to a close with a fall that changed his life at the age of just 23. Even while coming to terms with his multiple ne...

“The greatest gift a breeder could have.” That was how the late HH Aga Khan IV described his unbeaten masterpiece Zarkava. How fitting then, that months after the retirement of the 20-year-old daughte...

PARIS, France — “Where's Charlie?” The reaction of Francis Graffard, looking for Charlie Fellowes to commiserate before celebrating his own good fortune in being awarded the Poule d'Essai des Pouliche...

By Brian Sheerin and Emma Berry Cormac Farrell was left flabbergasted after bringing the Arqana Breeze-up Sale-topping figure of €1.9 million for a Night Of Thunder colt who went the way of Godolphin ...

Spend a morning on the gallops with Ralph Beckett and you could end up with more than just the natural shot in the arm that comes with observing racehorses at close quarters in the English springtime....

We've seen a Classic double double, but could we now see a double Triple Crown bid for Godolphin? The quest for the Triple Crown is usually more of 'a thing' in America, though its compact five-week c...

NEWMARKET, UK — “Awesome, awesome, awesome,” chanted William Buick after galloping off across Newmarket Heath with Desert Flower, beyond the winning post, into history. When Good Cheer slipped through...

NEWMARKET, UK — It felt more like the July Sale at Park Paddocks as May got off to a blistering start with record-breaking temperatures. The trade was warm enough in the ring, too.  Though the figures...