THE first foal by Rip Van Winkle has arrived at Coolmore Stud.

TIMEFORM ratings suggest that Dream Ahead is over-priced at the current 9-1 on Betfair, as the Halifax gurus have David Simcock’s three-year-old 5lb ahead of his rivals for today’s Newmarket showpiece (live on Channel 4).

PANDORAMA will not run again this season after returning home sore following his run in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

PAUL NICHOLLS has hit back at claims his Ditcheat team are out of form.

TIMEFORM’S Simon Walker believes Long Run needs to improve if he is to win the totesport Gold Cup at Cheltenham in March.

John McCririck believes Long Run's victory in the William Hill King George VI Chase and the demise of Kauto Star has signalled the dawn of a new generation.

CHAMPION Australian racehorse So You Think has arrived at Aidan O’Brien’s Ballydoyle stables in preparation for the new Flat season.

IT would have had all the ingredients of a perfect story — four Bakers working together to steal the bookies’ dough.

Willie Muir had to send Nemo Spirit on a 400-mile round trip to find suitable ground but the journey paid off as he put up a brave front-running performance to win the £17,000 (€19,950) Blue Square Stakes under William Buick at York.

Joe Jo Star sprung a 16-1 surprise in the feature toteswinger Swinton Handicap Hurdle on a mixed card at Haydock.

Ferdy Murphy is looking forward to having a crack at some decent handicaps with Divers after his

TIMEFORM and the official handicapper are at odds over the merit of Zarkava’s victory in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on Sunday.

Former Vodafone Derby favourite New Approach looks set to take his chance at Epsom on Saturday after all.

Fleeting Spirit will be prepared for a crack at the King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot after setting a new course record in the betfred.com Temple Stakes at Haydock.

A detective in the Kieren Fallon race-fixing trial today denied trying to suppress comments from Channel 4 Racing pundit Jim McGrath.

Australian speedball Miss Andretti is settling in well to new surroundings in Newmarket ahead of her Royal Ascot mission.

Online pool betting company RaceO will be offering a £1m (€1.5m) jackpot on British racing this Saturday.

Malcolm Jefferson’s Calatagan may have been the 14-1 outsider of the party in the £30,000 skybet.com Castleford Handicap Chase but he ran out a game winner of the two-mile test at Wetherby today.

Liberate left the Philip Hobbs stable dreaming of another victory in the JCB Triumph Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival after maintaining his unbeaten record with ease in the closing race at Wincanton.

Timeform’s Jim McGrath has been nominated as an independent director of the British Horseracing Board.

HIGH-RISE, winner of the 1998 Derby, has returned to the country of his birth to continue his stud career at Paddy Byrne’s Park House Stud in Tullow, Carlow.

Frankie Dettori made the most of a rare visit to Pontefract with a treble on Dumfries, Rules For Jokers and Boston Lodge.

Joe Fanning took his score for the season to 62 with a double on Tangled Up In Blue and Murghem at Haydock and is well on course to setting a new personal best before the term is out.