Mercurial, mount of 2020/21 all-weather champion jockey Richard Kingscote, is a confident time-handicap call for an eleven-runner Novice Stakes over five furlongs of Wolverhampton tapeta tonight when this magnificent surface will be a departure from the abnormal, following trials and tribulations of the ubiquitous Royal Ascot ground which ranged initiallyContinue Reading

Gentle Ellen probably went into every punters’ notebook after finishing second on debut at Carlisle twenty-four days ago; they wont need reminding David Barron’s charge will be attempting to go one better in division one of a Fillies’ Novices’ Stakes over six furlongs on ‘good’ Pontefract ground this afternoon. AContinue Reading

Sweeping, one of only three maidens in the ten-runner listed Chesham Stakes over seven furlongs at ‘soft/heavy’ Royal Ascot today, has an excellent opportunity of going one better under Hollie ‘pocket rocket’ Doyle who opened her 2021 account at the famous venue last Tuesday and remains an outside chance forContinue Reading

A quick-thinking groom helped a donkey deliver her foal safely, after one of its front legs became stuck during birth, at international animal welfare charity, The Donkey Sanctuary. The mare, called Abbie, went into labour on Tuesday evening (8 June), and when groom, Lisa Coles went to check on her,Continue Reading