Tax Free smashed Goodwood’s six-furlong track record by almost half a second in an epic Sporting Index Starlit Stakes.

Champion jockey Jamie Spencer is set to miss the final day of Chester’s May meeting on May 12 after picking up a one-day ban at Windsor yesterday.

Frankie Dettori may be handing over the jockeys’ championship to Jamie Spencer but the popular Italian showed his appetite for winners is as strong as ever with a 24-1 treble at Nottingham.

Accipiter, who missed the whole of the last jumps season with a leg injury, is set to return to action at Newbury in November.

The racing world is today mourning the loss of Caro Balding, wife of Grand National, Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle-winning trainer Toby Balding, who died in the early hours of this morning following a long illness.

Ante-post favourite Celestial Gold hardened at the top of the betting following today’s final declaration stage for the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup.

Frankie Dettori outshone the equine celebrities on display at the weekend when he was crowned champion jockey for the third time as the Flat season ended at Doncaster.

TOBY BALDING is hoping for rain in South Yorkshire as he sends Turbo to Doncaster to try to end his career as a trainer on a high note.

Mephisto got the better of Gold Ring in a thrilling finish to the totesport Ebor at York this afternoon – but then had to survive a stewards’ inquiry.

Conditional jockey Tom Best recorded the biggest win of his career on Toby Balding’s Accipiter in the £40,000 (€59,700) Cantor Odds Handicap Hurdle at Ascot.