Aidan O’Brien expects Magician to strip much fitter in Sunday’s Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh today than when he won the Mooresbridge Stakes earlier in the month.

Tony McCoy once summed up the essential ingredient in the make-up of a champion jump jockey with searing simplicity.

George Baker is to take a giant step in his training career by moving to the historic Whitsbury Manor Stables in Hampshire.

CHARLIE SWAN was crowned king of the legends after making all the running on Miami Gator to win the Fudge And Smudge Leger Legends Classified Stakes at Doncaster yesterday.

Michael Jarvis has doubts about Laaheb acting on the track when he goes for the Festival Stakes at Goodwood tomorrow.

George Moore, ranked alongside Scobie Breasley as the greatest ever Australian jockey, has died in Sydney at the age of 84.

SEARCH teams went into a wild sea off the west Cork coast yesterday morning looking for another casualty of the unforgiving waves.

The irritating itch that failure to win the Vodafone Derby has become for Frankie Dettori could be about to disappear.

In horseracing more than any other sport, the best-laid plans can unravel in a heartbeat.

Hallo Dandy, winner of the 1984 Grand National, was put down yesterday aged 33.

Henrietta Knight believes the track and the ground will suit Racing Demon as the six-year-old bids to give the Wantage trainer her third win in the Stan James King George VI Chase.

Danny Barry, who worked for the late Gordon Richards for over nine years but is now based near Dundalk, had Irish eyes smiling as he completed 65-1 double with the well-backed pair Black Chalk and Bogus Dreams at Musselburgh.

James Eustace is aiming his dual-purpose performer Orcadian at the Group Three Betfred Gordon Richards Stakes at Sandown on Saturday.

Tony Dobbin notched his 1000th British winner after Alfy Rich took the Metrocentre Handicap Chase at Hexham.

Pat Eddery has announced that he will join the growing band of ex-jockeys in the training ranks.

Veteran jockey John Carroll has decided to hang up his saddle after a career spanning a quarter of a century.

Former 11-times champion jockey Pat Eddery is to be awarded an honorary OBE in recognition of his “services to horse racing”.

Frankie Dettori is out to lay his most painful ghost to rest when Snow Ridge lines up for his Godolphin bosses in Saturday’s Vodafone Derby.

FRANKIE DETTORI is confident he will be fit in time for the Vodafone Derby - despite breaking a finger at Goodwood yesterday.

Pat Eddery signed off after an illustrious career as a jockey with three rides in Mauritius today, but there was no fairytale ending.

Champion jockey Kieren Fallon looks odds-on to reach the 200-wins mark yet again this season. He now has 153 wins after successes at Haydock and Wolverhampton.

Kieren Fallon continued in superb form at Haydock today just 24-hours after landing his first six-timer with three victories each at Pontefract and Yarmouth.

PAT EDDERY has abandoned the impossible chase to become the all-time winning-most jockey in British racing history by announcing that he will retire at the end of the season.

Trainer Colin Tizzard has confirmed that last year’s winner of the Sporting Index Steeplechase, Lucky Clover, will return to Cheltenham to defend his crown.

Pat Eddery went into second place on his own on the all-time list of winning jockeys in Britain at Goodwood on Friday evening.

Pat Eddery reached a memorable landmark at Royal Ascot when he booted Romantic Liason home in the Queen Mary Stakes.

It has been a long wait but champion jockey Tony McCoy today stands alone as having ridden more winners in a season than any other rider in history.

Tony McCoy has equalled Gordon Richards' record for the most winners in a season when he won on Shepherds Rest at Warwick.

Champion jockey Tony McCoy is targeting even more records having posted his 1500th career victory.