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

The progressive, Aidan O’Brien-trained Fields Of Athenry proved a hugely impressive winner of the listed Challenge Stakes as continuous rain turned the ground yielding to soft in Leopardstown last night.

Ryan Moore roared into the history books on the penultimate day of Royal Ascot as he became the first jockey since the war to ride nine winners at the showpiece meeting.

Curvy put herself in the frame for a crack at the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby with a cosy victory in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot yesterday.

Found can extend the record-breaking exploits of jockey Ryan Moore by taking the Coronation Stakes this afternoon at Royal Ascot.

Andre Fabre’s Territories has been ruled out of Tuesday’s St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot due to a setback.

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.

Pleascach is set for the Irish Derby after repelling hot favourite Found to claim Classic glory in the Tattersalls Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh yesterday.

Aidan O’Brien’s Royal Ascot heroine Bracelet fought off stable companion Tapestry and British raider Volume to clinch Classic glory in a thrilling renewal of the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Saturday night.

Bracelet gave trainer Aidan O’Brien a fourth victory in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh with a determined effort in the hands of Colm O’Donoghue.

Dermot Weld feels being on home soil gives Tarfasha a favourite’s chance in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh today.

Leading owner Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum will wait until later in the week before deciding whether to let star fillies Taghrooda and Tarfasha lock horns for a second time in Saturday’s Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh.

Hot favourite Leading Light narrowly denied defending champion Estimate in a pulsating climax to the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot yesterday.

Leading Light, winner of the Queen’s Vase 12 months ago, heads the ante-post market for next Thursday’s Ascot Gold Cup after the latest declaration stage yesterday.

Jane Cecil plans to be firmly active at the sales and would “love to win a Group One” next season after confirming she is to continue to train from the historic Warren Place stables in Newmarket.

Brian Toomey “continues to show positive signs of recovery” from serious head injuries he suffered in a fall at Perth on July 4.

You know the way you often hear Aidan O’Brien talking about horses he has in major races that like to bowl along in front.

Trainer Ralph Beckett is confident Epsom heroine Talent is in the best possible shape as she aims to complete the English-Irish Oaks double at the Curragh this evening.

Dawn Approach will clash with Toronado for a second time when the pair lock horns in the Qipco Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood on July 31.

Alive Alive Oh will carry a degree of stable confidence as she puts her Darley Irish Oaks credentials on the line in the Oxigen Environmental Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

Leading Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby contender Sugar Boy has been sold to Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Maktoum.

Joanna Morgan believes her Britainnia Stakes hero Roca Tumu will handle a step back up in trip following his Royal Ascot success.

Estimate provided Queen Elizabeth with a famous triumph when she captured the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot yesterday.

Riposte provided the Royal Ascot crowd with the win they were all craving for Lady Cecil in the Ribblesdale Stakes.

Alive Alive Oh is in line to make her next appearance in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Princess Highway, successful in the race a year ago, gets the vote to again win the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Blue Wind Stakes at Naas tonight.

The once-powerful association of Henry Cecil and the Wildenstein family is revived this weekend as Andromeda Galaxy makes her debut for the trainer at Gowran Park on Sunday.

Christophe Soumillon left Longchamp yesterday with the belief Orfevre had the potential to provide him with a third Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe after the Japanese Triple Crown star made a successful European debut.

Orfevre becomes the latest Japanese star to embark on the route towards the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe with an outing in one of the trials at Longchamp tomorrow.

Stable jockey William Buick believes John Gosden’s pair of Izzi Top and The Fugue will fight out the finish in today’s Markel Insurance Nassau Stakes at Glorious Goodwood.

Princess Highway is fancied to continue her rapid rise up the ladder by landing the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh tomorrow.

Great Heavens and Colliding Worlds have been supplemented for the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Sunday.

Great Heavens and Colliding Worlds have been supplemented for the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Sunday.

Camelot has been given an entry for the Neptune Investment Management Great Voltigeur Stakes at York on August 22.

Walter Haefner, founder and owner of Moyglare Stud, has died in Switzerland at the age of 101.

DERMOT WELD, fresh from saddling Princess Highway to record a brilliant success in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot on Thursday, turns his attentions to much lesser pickings with Quick Glimpse in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Down Royal this afternoon and the three-year-old is the nap choice.

I am sounding a bit like a broken record talking about the weather and ground here almost on a weekly basis, but readers will understand what a huge bearing it has on what we do.

Princess Highway is set to tackle the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh after emulating her dam Irresistible Jewel in storming to victory in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot.

After the gallant effort of Carlton House in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes on Wednesday and the disappointment of Momentary in yesterday’s Ribblesdale Stakes, it could be a case of third-time lucky for host and owner Queen Elizabeth II as her choicely bred Estimate looks set for a big run in this afternoon’s Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot.

Princess Highway emulated her dam Irresistible Jewel as she powered to victory in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot.

The beautifully bred Kailani looks way overpriced at 10-1 for this afternoon’s Ribblesdale Stakes (3.05) at Royal Ascot, making huge each-way appeal in an open renewal of the Group 2 contest.

Kissed, a late withdrawal from the Investec Oaks, is among four Aidan O’Brien possibles for the Prix de Diane Longines at Chantilly on Sunday.

Aidan O’Brien is responsible for seven of the 15 confirmations as he searches for an eighth victory in the Abu Dhabi Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh on Saturday.