ZENYATTA was branded a “heart-stopper” after the unbeaten mare stretched her winning record to 19 at Hollywood Park on Saturday.

INTERNATIONAL campaigner Dermot Weld avenged the narrow defeats of Vinnie Roe and Vintage Crop in the Gold Cup as Rite Of Passage gallantly claimed the highlight on Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot yesterday.

Veteran jockey Mick Kinane has announced his retirement, ending a 34-year career in the saddle.

MILANETTE is the nap choice, on what looks a minefield of a programme for punters, in the first division of the Bumper at Wexford tonight.

Casino Drive has been withdrawn from tonight’s Belmont Stakes due to a bruised left hind foot, according to reports in America.

Connections of Big Brown are adamant his quest for the Triple Crown will not be unhinged by fatigue.

Rags To Riches became the first filly to win the Belmont Stakes in 102 years when she got the better of Curlin in a thrilling battle for the final leg of the American Triple Crown in New York.

Kentucky Oaks winner Rags To Riches bids to buck two major trends when she lines up in the 139th renewal of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday.

THERE will be slim pickings for European horses when America’s prestigious Eclipse Awards are handed out in Beverly Hills, California, later this month.

Starcraft could go for the Breeders’ Cup Classic following his success in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

Belmont Stakes winner and leading Breeders’ Cup Classic contender Empire Maker has been retired.

Dermot Weld’s Dimitrova could finish only second as Indy Five Hundred stormed home in the 244,000 Garden City Breeders’ Cup Handicap at Belmont Park in America.

Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide could manage only third place behind Peace Rules in the Grade One Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in America.