Michael Jarvis intends to give Rainbow Peak the chance to shine over a longer trip at Newbury on Friday.

Sariska will face just five rivals as she bids for a third successive Group One victory in the Darley Yorkshire Oaks on Thursday.

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The campaign by environmentalists to have a North minister sacked for banning a government climate change advertising campaign was gathering pace today.

Three people were killed and at least six injured in Texas after a fire broke out in a Houston office block.

DAIRES DASHER, following his wide margin win in the semi-finals, will be the centre of attention in the Guinness Trophy final at Curraheen Park tonight.

Americans Andrew Fire and Craig Mello have won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work in controlling the flow of genetic information, it was announced in Sweden today.

Puerto Rico has been taken out of this afternoon’s Ladbrokes St Leger at York.

FRANKIE DETTORI believes he has a live chance of winning the Ladbrokes St Leger for a fourth time aboard Sixties Icon at York today.

Aidan O’Brien has all but ruled leading ante-post fancy Septimus out of the Ladbrokes St Leger at York on Saturday week.

Ladbrokes St Leger winner Scorpion is unlikely to make his seasonal bow in the StanJamesUK.com Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket on Sunday.