Horse Racing

Frankel took the lead from the start and never looked back, flying home to take the $468,000 QIPCO Sussex Stakes (Eng-I) at Glorious Goodwood July 27 by five lengths.

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The granddaughter of the 5th Lord Westbury, Jessica Bethell, from North Yorkshire, died yesterday morning after she went riding but complained of feeling unwell.

A YEAR after winning his steeplechasing debut in scintillating style at Doncaster, three-times champion jockey Richard Dunwoody says “the best is still to come” from Sprinter Sacre who is odds-on favourite for next year’s Queen Mother Champion Chase.

Jump racing is full of thrills on a daily basis, but on Saturday it offers jump jockeys what are probably the two biggest excitements going; a high class two-mile chase at Sandown and racing over the Grand National fences at Aintree.

NEXT stop Cheltenham. After racing away with Wetherby’s Charlie Hall Chase – and then landing the Grade One Betfair Chase with a masterful display of jumping – Paul Nicholls is now reaching for the stars with Silviniaco Conti.

Nicky Henderson hopes to sort out a potential Cheltenham Festival logjam between two of his smartest novice chasers when he runs Captain Conan in the four-runner Betfred Mobile Lotto Challengers Novice Chase at Sandown on Saturday.

Racing endured a rare blank day in Britain on Friday because of the snow and all turf fixtures, including Ascot which was due to stage the Victor Chandler Chase, are off on Saturday.

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Kim Bailey was dreaming of Cheltenham again after Harry Topper – a five year-old he describes as the best he has trained since the 1995 Gold Cup winner Master Oats – came from a hopeless position at the last fence to win Thursday’s GPG Novice Chase at Newbury.