IT IS a while since trainer James Toller had a nice juvenile to look forward to, but thoughts of Loving Spirit could keep him warm this winter.

A messy start was of no hindrance to Boldinor as he made a winning reappearance from a layoff in the August Festival Here 4th, 5th, 6th Handicap at Brighton.

WILLIE MULLINS has finally given up the fight to get the brilliant Mikael D’Haguenet to Cheltenham.

Kalahari King continued his build up to the Seasons Holidays Queen Mother Champion Chase with another seaside outing to Redcar.

Lady Darshaan may be aimed at the totescoop6 Two-Year-Old Trophy, a race her half-brother Total Galley won last autumn.

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Phillip Makin is in hospital with a crushed vertebra in his back following a fall on the gallops.

HARADASUN can herald his arrival in Europe with victory in the Group One Juddmonte Lockinge Stakes at Newbury today.

Bentong looked a class act when he recorded a narrow but convincing success in the £50,000 (€73,200) Weatherbys Insurance Summer Sprint at Redcar.

Heavy rain is starting to disrupt the racing programme in Ireland and the UK, with today’s meeting at Redcar washed out and inspections called at three of tomorrow’s fixtures in Britain.

It was a Blue Monday for punters but a black Saturday for bookmakers, who estimate losses of “almost £10m industry-wide” after jockey Steve Drowne and trainer Roger Charlton helped land a massive gamble in the totesport Cambridgeshire Handicap.

Mark Prescott is targeting Redcar’s valuable totepool Two-Year-Old Trophy with recent Ayr winner Violette.

Astrac put up a gallant effort to take second place at Chepstow this evening as he made history by becoming the first horse to run at every British venue that stages Flat racing.

Tomorrow’s meeting at Redcar has been abandoned due to waterlogging.

HEATHER DALTON has her string in top form at the moment and the Shropshire-based trainer can register another success with Lord Of The Hill in the Fotocolo Novices’ Handicap Chase at Hereford today.

Officials at Redcar have been forced to abandon tomorrow’s meeting at the Cleveland track after an inspection revealed the course to be unfit for racing.