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Pour Moi too strong for House of Windsor

Sunday, 5 June 2011

Sue Montgomery: Teenage sensation takes French raider from last to first while Queen's favourite can only manage third.

Barzalona's next big step will be guided by Fabre

Sunday, 5 June 2011

Chris McGrath: It is obvious that the Turf's superpowers will be duelling over his future.

Lost shoe costs Queen her first Derby victory

Sunday, 5 June 2011

Paul Cahalan and Andrew McCorkell: And injunction nobbles past winner Kieren Fallon.

Injunction stops Fallon's Derby ride

Saturday, 4 June 2011

Owners said jockey had broken a "promise" to ride Native Khan.

Pour Moi snatches victory in the Epsom Derby

Saturday, 4 June 2011

Mickael Barzalona, 19, gave the Andre Fabre trained colt a confident ride and celebrated before the line.

Pour Moi can gain final verdict after Fallon's court-room tribulations

Saturday, 4 June 2011

There are only two places, so they say, where all men are equal: on the Turf, and six feet under it.

Ed Dunlop: 'Do I wake up and think: "God, you're lucky?" I used to'

Saturday, 4 June 2011

Ed Dunlop was bred to train a Derby winner and today may do so. Chris McGrath meets a man who has made the most of his chances

Rags-to-riches betting tycoon seals Tote deal

Saturday, 4 June 2011

Founder of Betfred chain stakes £265mto become 'bookmaker to the nation'

Murtagh leads rivals merry dance on Rain for Oaks triumph

Saturday, 4 June 2011

To his victim, it must have felt as though Johnny Murtagh had trailed the nightmares that would stalk him through the hot, brief night ahead.

Native Khan ready to follow up trail blazed by Frankel

Saturday, 4 June 2011

Kieren Fallon clearly doesn't fancy his chances, but there are plenty of others who reckon that even a comprehensive defeat for Native Khan in the season's first Classic represents the best form in the field today.

Stan Hey: 6-5 Against

Saturday, 4 June 2011

Take a punt on Ocean War to sink favourite

Exclusive: Owner launches legal bid to stop Fallon riding in Derby

Friday, 3 June 2011

Chris McGrath: High Court judgment this morning will determine whether champion jockey takes part.

Lester Piggott: 'If I could just ride a couple of races a week...'

Friday, 3 June 2011

The Brian Viner Interview: He rode his first winner at 12, his 4,493rd at 58. He also won the Derby nine times. Now a dapper 75-year-old, he is simply the greatest jockey who ever lived.

Dancing Rain has Haggas singing

Thursday, 2 June 2011

Chris McGrath: Over the wall, where Ed Dunlop is preparing Native Khan for Saturday, a man who has already won the Investec Oaks is now hoping to win his first Derby.

Carlton drifts after injury scare

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Chris McGrath: It was almost as though he wanted to prove that any and all ranks of society can discover a common derangement in their fascination for racehorses.

Fallon dumps Khan for Derby ride on Ballydoyle's Recital

Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Epsom week got off to a pretty sensational start yesterday when Kieren Fallon discarded one of the leading fancies for the Investec Derby in order to rebuild bridges with his former employers at Ballydoyle.

O'Brien settles on Derby quartet

Monday, 30 May 2011

Yesterday was a time for some i-dotting and t-crossing, and a little head-scratching, in mission control at Ballydoyle. In the morning, Aidan O'Brien's squad for the Derby was finalised; a quartet – Seville, Recital, Treasure Beach and Memphis Tennessee – is set to challenge for the �1.25m Investec-sponsored purse at Epsom on Saturday.

The sport of kings could finally belong to a Queen

Sunday, 29 May 2011

Sue Montgomery: Red-hot favourite Carlton House carries Royal colours into 232nd Derby.

Chris McGrath: 'King Kieren' may be set to recapture his pomp to crown this vintage year

Saturday, 28 May 2011

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'Sleepy' Workforce awakens to lay down a marker on comeback

Friday, 27 May 2011

Chris McGrath: While his juniors remain confined to talking the talk, for another eight days at least, the colt who actually holds the Investec Derby trophy last night showed them the way to walk the walk.

Workforce returns to a hard task

Thursday, 26 May 2011

Chris McGrath: So many people seem to have decided that Carlton House only has to turn up to win the Investec Derby, that it seems proper for them to be reminded that for the moment he remains behind another colt in his own stable.

Mike Smith: Allstar rider prepares for Ascot at the grass roots

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

US Hall of Fame jockey prepares for the fresh challenge of royal meeting with a recce of Folkestone. Chris McGrath hears why.

Middle-distance great Mtoto dies

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Mtoto, one of the most popular Flat horses of his day, has died, aged 28.

Sarafina finds the silver lining at Saint-Cloud

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

As though goaded by the example of Goldikova, Sarafina yesterday showed that she may also be maturing into a formidable force on Europe's elite stage with an impressive performance in a Group Two race at Saint-Cloud.

Goldikova back with a bang but may give Cliffs swerve at Ascot

Monday, 23 May 2011

The magnificent six-year-old mare Goldikova banished any thoughts that age might be withering her at Longchamp yesterday as she took her top-level tally to 13 in the Prix d'Ispahan, in the process serving notice to any younger pretenders that her milers' crown will not be easily dislodged.

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