Ante-post favourite Don’t Touch will race from stall eight when he bids to stretch his 100% record to five in the William Hill Ayr Gold Cup on Saturday.

Despite having seen American Pharoah steamroller his rivals into the history books this year, Bob Baffert is taking nothing for granted as his Triple Crown hero tackles the Travers Stakes at Saratoga tonight.

Make Believe, winner of the Poule d’Essai des Poulains, is set to take on dual Guineas victor Gleneagles at Royal Ascot after he was supplemented for Tuesday’s St James’s Palace Stakes.

French raider Epicuris has his sights set firmly on the Investec Derby as the field for the Epsom Classic began to take shape yesterday.

“The stats say they won’t all win,” said Ruby Walsh, in his Irish Examiner preview of his four mounts — all favourites — on day one of the Cheltenham Festival.

“The stats say they won’t all win,” said Ruby Walsh, in his Irish Examiner preview of his four mounts – all favourites — on day one of the Cheltenham Festival, but the meeting’s leading rider went agonisingly close to pulling off a famous four-timer which would have knocked the bookmakers for six.

It’s here! And I’m losing already.

Harry Whittington is hoping Arzal enjoys a change in fortune in Saturday’s William Hill Imperial Cup at Sandown, for which 50 entries were received.

The prospect of Tony McCoy retiring in a blaze of glory with victory in the Crabbie’s Grand National was at the forefront of bookmakers’ minds when they priced up the market after the publication of the weights for the world’s greatest steeplechase.

Nicky Henderson finally admitted defeat in attempting to get Simonsig to the William Hill King George VI Chase at Kempton on St Stephen’s Day.

Damon Albarn’s solo debut and chart-topping duo Royal Blood heads the shortlist for this year’s Barclaycard Mercury Prize.

As the market intensifies ahead of Saturday’s Crabbie’s Grand National at Aintree, Michael Scudamore’s Monbeg Dude was the one most punters were interested in on Tuesday.

Big Buck’s is as short as 6-4 favourite to regain his Ladbrokes World Hurdle crown after the current champion Solwhit was ruled out of the race with injury.

Bookmakers believe My Tent Or Yours and The New One could even be sent off joint-favourites with the leading lights of the new generation proving hard to separate in Kempton’s williamhill.com Christmas Hurdle on Thursday.