Dirar is likely to be in action at the Punchestown Festival next month following his victory over hurdles at Downpatrick on Sunday.

Silvestre De Sousa has signed an agreement to become part of Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin operation.

English speakers got their moment in the Carnival sun as a wild, Beatles-themed street party took place in Rio de Janeiro.

The streets of Rio de Janeiro were calm today, just hours after police officers went on strike and a week before glittering Carnival celebrations that typically draw 800,000 tourists were due to start.

Royal Ascot and Newmarket will be under consideration for Gamilati after the Godolphin filly created a huge impression in powering to success in the UAE 1000 Guineas at Meydan yesterday.

Portraying a modern Venus with flowing tresses and a golden mini dress, supermodel Gisele Bundchen blew kisses to thousand of roaring fans as the featured performer of the Carnival samba club Vila Isabel.

Kieren Fallon believes he has every chance of taking a hand in the race for the 2011 Flat Jockeys’ Championship.

A 37-YEAR-OLD Dutch tourist was in hospital in Rio de Janeiro yesterday after being shot twice by a mugger who attacked him and his wife after the city’s fabled Carnival festivities got underway, police said.

The biggest party of the Rio de Janeiro Carnival took to the streets at dawn today.

For years, during the so-called boom times, when some people clearly had far more money than sense, balloting was the curse of the trainer.

Firebet has been anonymously purchased out of Richard Fahey’s yard to race in Dubai.

Kite Wood breezed to the forefront of the St Leger market with an authoritative display to make all in the Group Three CGA Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury.

Samba school Salgueiro was crowned champion of Rio de Janeiro's fiercely competitive Carnival parades, beating off formidable opponents and overcoming a shooting that left three dead outside its headquarters just months ago.

Saeed Bin Suroor and Frankie Dettori combined for a double at the opening meeting of the 2009 Dubai International Racing Carnival, highlighted by the victory of My Indy in the Group Three Maktoum Challenge I.

Kerrin McEvoy is looking forward to riding fast-improving colt Elusive Warning in Saturday’s Godolphin Mile at Nad Al Sheba.

Connections of Breeders’ Cup Classic and Preakness Stakes winner Curlin are expecting a bold show from their superstar at Nad Al Sheba on Thursday.

Pop star Lily Allen has been left "shaken" after clashing with neighbours over a parking space she is alleged to have 'stolen' from another resident near her new London home.

Kevin Shea was seen at his very best on Herman Brown's Linngari as the pair became the first to record successive victories in the Group Two Al Fahidi Fort, the mile grass feature at Nad Al Sheba this evening.

Frankie Dettori was on the mark when producing Stetchworth Prince with a perfectly-timed challenge at Nad Al Sheba in Dubai on Friday.

John Hills’ Clinet bids for a Carnival hat-trick and a second Listed win in the Balanchine Stakes, the feature race of Friday night’s marathon nine-race card at the Dubai International Racing Carnival.

Screams and cheers greeted the Rolling Stones as they pulled up to their beach-front hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, today in a huge police motorcade, and die-hard fans were already staking out spots before an enormous stage on Copacabana Beach, where up to two million people were expected to attend the band’s free concert tomorrow night.

Vague is set for a crack at the UAE 1000 Guineas after registering a stylish victory in the Mustaqbali Cup on her Dubai debut at Nad Al Sheba.

Vague underlined her Classic claims with an impressive performance in the Mustaqbali Cup on the second night of the Dubai International Racing Carnival at Nad Al Sheba.

Kerrin McEvoy is set to return to action in Australia on Friday after being sidelined since suffering a bad fall from Queen Of The Hill at Flemington in November.

Postcards showing scantily clad women alongside Rio de Janeiro’s famous landmarks have been banned under a new law in the state famed worldwide for Carnival.

Kerrin McEvoy has recovered from a nasty fall he took in his native Australia earlier this month and hopes to be back riding by the new year.

Briatin's Notting Hill Carnival was getting underway today, with millions of visitors expected at Europe’s largest street party.

Mike De Kock’s Wolf Whistle was forced to pull out all the stops – again – to land the Group Three Al Rashidiya, the feature race of Thursday night’s seventh meeting of the Dubai International Racing Carnival.

TEN British and two Irish-trained runners stood their ground at yesterday’s final declaration stage for Saturday’s Dubai World Cup meeting at Nad Al Sheba.

Right Approach landed the big race at Nad Al Sheba in Dubai yesterday on his first run for new connections since being bought from the Queen.

Hotel heiress and reality TV-star Paris Hilton isn’t taking her new title as worst-dressed celebrity to heart, according to imdb.com.