Richard Hughes will retire from riding at the end of the Flat campaign before embarking upon a training career in 2016.

Jamie Spencer (pictured) will retire from riding at the end of the current season to take up a new role with Qatar Racing Ltd.

Andre Fabre has been a force to be reckoned with on his visits across the Channel for over two decades and finally completed a full set of British Classics through the appropriately-named Miss France in the Qipco 1000 Guineas at Newmarket yesterday.

Jo Hughes is looking forward to saddling her first British Classic runner when London Bridge lines up for the Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster on Saturday.

Royal Ascot paid its respects to the late Sir Henry Cecil with a minute’s silence before the opening race of the five-day meeting.

Leading owner Prince Khalid Abdullah paid tribute to “genius” Henry Cecil following the legendary trainer’s death on Tuesday.

Henry Richard Amherst Cecil was one of the most popular and greatest racehorse trainers of this, or any other, era.

The 10-time champion trainer has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 70.

Ralph Beckett’s Secret Gesture skipped almost to the head of every bookmaker’s ante-post Investec Oaks market after a wildly impressive victory through pouring rain at Lingfield.

Aidan O’Brien’s Moth looked an incredibly exciting filly at the Curragh on her reappearance and, on the strength of the performance, connections decided to spend the £30,000 to supplement the filly for tomorrow’s Qipco 1000 Guineas at Newmarket.

Aidan O’Brien admits it would be beyond his wildest dreams if Camelot can ensure his place in racing legend and secure Triple Crown glory in the Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster today.

Ladbrokes feel they are “dangling a carrot” for punters by easing Camelot’s odds ahead of his bid for Triple Crown glory in tomorrow’s St Leger at Doncaster.

Ladbrokes feel they are “dangling a carrot” for punters by easing Camelot’s odds ahead of his bid for Triple Crown glory in Saturday’s St Leger at Doncaster.

Aidan O’Brien is the Philips manager of the month for June.

Dreams of a first Triple Crown hero since 1970 are very much alive after Camelot routed the field in the Investec Derby at Epsom.

Joseph O’Brien takes the ride on Maybe in the Investec Oaks on Friday for the first leg of what could be a famous Classic double for the young rider at Epsom.

“I don’t want to blow him up in any way but from Day One, when he was born, he was very exceptional”

Ground conditions at Newmarket could be a question mark for the hugely talented Camelot in the Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday.

Richard Hills has announced he will retire from race-riding next month after a career spanning 33 years.

Richard Hills, retained jockey to Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum, is to retire from the saddle on Dubai World Cup night at Meydan on March 31.

Sir Michael Stoute cannot envisage Sea Moon having any issues with the extended test of the Ladbrokes St Leger as the red-hot favourite attempts to provide the trainer with just his second victory in the Doncaster Classic.

FORMER owner Tony Shead paid tribute to Barry Hills after the legendary Lambourn trainer announced his retirement from the sport.

Seamie Heffernan has grand designs of partnering Misty For Me to a second Classic success in as many weeks in the Investec Oaks at Epsom on Friday.

Blue Bunting will take on 12 fillies in the Investec Oaks at Epsom on Friday.

IT was hard to avoid the feeling of anticlimax at Newmarket yesterday, but it will not have affected those connected with Godolphin as Blue Bunting slipped virtually unnoticed up the stands rail to collect the Qipco 1000 Guineas.

TOM Queally admits Frankel still has a bit to prove as he heads into tomorrow’s Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket.

More an established star now rather than a name for the future, Tom Queally still could not believe his luck as he managed to top his 2009 Group One tally this year.

William Buick came of age with a copy-book victory on Arctic Cosmos in the Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster as a nationwide gamble on Rewilding bit the dust.

THE three first three home in the 2000 Guineas are among a nine-strong line-up for the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot tomorrow.

Kieren Fallon has admitted defeat in getting a ride in the Ladbrokes St Leger this weekend.

Seb Sanders will miss the rest of the season after breaking his femur in a fall at Chester on Saturday.

Seb Sanders will miss the rest of the season after breaking his femur in a fall at Chester yesterday.

HENRYTHENAVIGATOR emulated dual Guineas winner Rock Of Gibraltar when adding the St James’s Palace Stakes to his Group One haul on the opening day of Royal Ascot yesterday.

Kevin Darley was garlanded by his weighing-room colleagues after signing off his riding career at Doncaster.

For many with a deep-rooted enthusiasm for Flat racing, there can only be one winner of this year’s Vodafone Oaks.

Four years ago the partisan crowd at Doncaster erupted when Bollin Eric galloped to victory in the St Leger, providing a local win for Yorkshiremen Tim Easterby and Kevin Darley.

Hot favourite Sixties Icon heads 12 horses left in the Ladbrokes St Leger at the confirmation stage.

Jockey Richard Quinn has announced his retirement from the saddle

Bryan Smart’s bid to land a first British Classic received a boost at Newmarket when Misu Bond survived two sessions with the racecourse farrier to land the banshahousestables.com European Free Handicap.

Mikael Magnusson will have his first British Classic runner when I’m In Love contests the Stan James 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on May 7.

Kerrin McEvoy could be the rider on everyone’s lips at this year’s Royal Ascot at York meeting.

It was all in the breeding as Eswarah emulated her dam Midway Lady by winning the Vodafone Oaks at Epsom today.

AIDAN O’BRIEN captured the only British Classic to have eluded him as Virginia Waters completed a famous double for the trainer and Kieren Fallon with victory in the UltimatePoker.com 1000 Guineas at Newmarket yesterday.