Fledgling trainer Keith Dalgleish gained a confidence boost on the eve of his first Royal Ascot runner as Doc Hay claimed the Stobart Group & Hospice At Home Handicap at Carlisle.

Big Timer continued his rapid progress with his third win on the bounce in the Symphony Group Acomb Stakes on the opening day of the Ebor Festival at York.

London Express hit the bookies hard when he landed a massive gamble in the opening race of the Ebor Festival at York.

Indian Maiden continued her remarkable rise up the ratings with an emphatic victory in the six-furlong Cecil Frail Stakes at Haydock Park yesterday.

Keith Dalgleish returned to Lingfield yesterday to launch a new career as a jump jockey at the same course where he had his first ride as a Flat apprentice.

Jockey Keith Dalgleish has retired from racing at the age of 21 after suffering an on-going battle with the scales.

JOCKEY Club officials will this week study video recordings and a stewards’ report relating to the incident in which Deano’s Beeno was said to have been hit 50 times by Tony McCoy at the start of a race on New Year’s Eve.

KEITH DALGLEISH became the first rider to fall foul of new Jockey Club procedures when he failed a breathalyser test at Redcar yesterday.

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S horses are coming to the boil just in time for a tilt at the late-season’s biggest prizes and the Ballydoyle squad struck on the opening day of York’s prestigious Ebor meeting with a one-two in the Daily Telegraph Great Voltigeur Stakes.

Smart Predator lit up a ‘grey day’ at Newmarket this afternoon when he won a historic race confined to grey horses.

Keith Dalgleish and Paul Hanagan profited from Richard Hughes’s absence at Hamilton to ride their first winners for Barry Hills.

APPRENTICES Olive Gaule and Cathy Gannon both displayed their talents when recording victories at Sligo last night.

FERGAL LYNCH joined the growing list of jockeys to be suspended for not riding out to the line when he was one of five riders in trouble at Doncaster yesterday.

Keith Dalgleish, who rode Yavana’s Pace into third place in the Grade One Canadian International at Woodbine, Toronto, last night jetted back to his native Scotland and took the riding honours with a 19-1 treble at Hamilton today.

Yavana‘s Pace bids for further Group One glory in the Deutsche Post Euro Express Preis von Europa in Cologne on Sunday.

Tony McCoy and Kieren Fallon received the top honours at the 12th Lesters Ceremony at the London Hilton last night.