Mid-October brought with it the start of the 2019/20 UAE racing season and consequently the return of Cork jockey Tadhg O’Shea to Dubai after a five-month hiatus in his homeland.

This weekend’s national hunt action takes place tomorrow and Willie has five runners to look forward to. He starts with Breaken, a recruit from France, where he ran on the flat three times and once over hurdles.

Roger Varian believes a repeat of Barsanti’s run at Ascot in May will give him every chance of being competitive in today’s Princess of Wales’s Arqana Racing Club Stakes at Newmarket.

Henry Candy is in no hurry to make the next move with Limato after conditions scuppered any realistic chance he had in the Al Quoz Sprint at Meydan on Saturday.

Ertijaal produced a blistering performance to give Jim Crowley his biggest winner since joining forces with Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum in the Longines Master Collection Handicap on the opening night of the Dubai World Cup Carnival at Meydan last night.

Trainer Art Sherman feels California Chrome is at the peak of his powers ahead of his bid for glory in today’s Dubai World Cup.

Grendisar can finally strike gold on All-Weather Championships Finals Day at Lingfield today by lifting the Coral Easter Classic. 

Roger Varian is aiming to begin the 2016 season with a bang by saddling two of his stable stars in Meydan on Dubai World Cup night next Saturday.

Cirrus Des Aigles will race on this year, said trainer Corine Barande-Barbe.

Top-class middle-distance performer Eagle Top will bid to open his account for the campaign in the Dubai Duty Free Legacy Cup at Newbury today.

Aidan O’Brien holds very strong claims in six of the seven races at Leopardstown this evening, and his The Crewmaster earns the nap selection to take the ten-furlong Bulmers Live Leopardstown Maiden.

Connections of Diamondsandrubies are expecting a stern examination of their filly as she lines up in the Qatar Nassau Stakes at Goodwood today.

Freddy Head expects the undulations of Goodwood to bring out the best in Solow when he bids to continue his fantastic campaign in today’s Qatar Sussex Stakes.

Night Of Thunder may have done little to boost the Lockinge form in yesterday’s Queen Anne Stakes, but that’s no reason to doubt Integral’s claims in today’s Duke of Cambridge Stakes, at Royal Ascot.

French star Solow ground out victory in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Racing fans are in for a real treat if the clash between Solow and Able Friend in the Queen Anne Stakes lives up to the hype.

Ante-post favourite Forgotten Rules remains in contention for the Gold Cup at Ascot on Thursday.

Dual 2000 Guineas winner Gleneagles heads a field of six for the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot tomorrow.

Godolphin have snapped up Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Pleascach and she will carry their colours when she runs in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot next week.

Make Believe, winner of the Poule d’Essai des Poulains, is set to take on dual Guineas victor Gleneagles at Royal Ascot after he was supplemented for Tuesday’s St James’s Palace Stakes.

Free Eagle is scheduled for a workout before Dermot Weld formulates plans for the exciting four-year-old’s return to the track.

Barry Geraghty’s hopes of making the Punchestown Festival rest on a meeting with his surgeon in four weeks’ time.

An Easter Monday assignment in Cork is next on the agenda for David Marnane’s much-travelled stable star Jamesie and a successful outing could spell a trip to Singapore for the KrisFlyer Sprint.

Nicky Henderson has yet to decide on plans for Sprinter Sacre – nearly two weeks after he was pulled up in the Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham.

Gordon Lord Byron is unlikely to take up his engagement at Dundalk on Friday, with a flight to Hong Kong booked for midweek.

Paul Hanagan steered Maftool to a narrow success for Godolphin in the UAE 2000 Guineas at Meydan yesterday.

William Buick and James Doyle are set to clock up some considerable air miles in the coming weeks and months after John Ferguson confirmed Godolphin’s two principal riders are likely to be in action during the prestigious Sydney Autumn Carnival.

David Bridgwater has been fined £2,000 by the British Horseracing Authority over comments attributed to him in the wake of a 21-day ban for young rider Jake Launchbury at Ludlow earlier this month.

John Gosden registered his first winner for Godolphin as Tempus Temporis booked his ticket for Good Friday by winning the Betsi Golden Mile Conditions Stakes as racing took place at Chelmsford City for the first time yesterday.

Jamie Spencer’s announcement that he is to shelve plans to retire from the saddle and instead ride as a freelance next season has been widely welcomed by the racing world.

Jockey Jamie Spencer has abandoned plans to retire from the saddle and will continue next year as a freelance.

Trainer John Murphy suggested a possible tilt at the UAE Derby at Meydan next March for Unorthodox after the debutant sprang a 25/1 shock in the two-year-old maiden in Dundalk last night.

Richard Hughes has spoken of his delight at effectively being crowned British champion jockey for a third successive season.

Owner Barry Hurley is dreaming of Group One glory in Dubai after Captain Cat strutted his stuff in the betfred.com Superior Mile at Haydock.

Aidan O’Brien has two good reasons to give Tapestry her next start in the Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron Stakes at Leopardstown on September 13.

Leading jockeys James Doyle and Silvestre de Sousa were among those to praise the new surface at Wolverhampton as racing took place on Tapeta for the first time in Britain at Dunstall Park yesterday.

Three-year-olds have a modest record in the King Stand’s Stakes (3.45) in recent years, but Hot Streak looks the right type to boost the classic generation’s statistics by taking today’s sprint feature at Royal Ascot.

The Charles O’Brien trained Stocktons Wing, who is absolutely thrown into the second division of the Bobbyjo Bistro Great Value Packages Handicap at Fairyhouse tonight, will not run.

War Envoy bids to further enhance his reputation in the Alfred Nobel Rochestown Stakes on a high-class card at Naas today.

Aidan O’Brien plans to follow a tried and tested route with Magician after the dual Group One winner left it late to claim the High Chaparral European Breeders Fund Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh.

Anything less than an emphatic success for Magician in the Group 3 High Chaparral EBF Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh this afternoon will be a major surprise.

Gordon Lord Byron finished down the field as South African star Variety Club bagged the Champions Mile at Sha Tin.

Frankie Dettori believes unbeaten Arc heroine Treve may have improved again over the winter.

You’d love to have been sitting behind the Ballydoyle contingent on the plane back from Dubai last weekend.

Jamie Spencer continued his fine of form as he drove Castilo Del Diablo to victory in the BetVictor.com Conditions Stakes at Kempton.