The Juddmonte International will take centre stage at Newmarket on Saturday after the racing industry moved to save a number of key races washed away by the abandonment of the York Ebor festival.

Connections of Natagora are growing in confidence ahead of her bid for glory in the stanjamesuk.com 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on Sunday week.

Clerk of the course Michael Prosser predicts good to soft ground at Newmarket on Champions Day – despite a Tuesday-night deluge.

Filming for the BBC prevented Dame Judi Dench seeing her first winner on a racecourse at Newmarket.

Strategic Prince pleased handler Paul Cole in an all-weather workout at Lingfield on Saturday as preparations for the Stan James 2000 Guineas continue to gather momentum.

ROD MILLMAN feels an in-form Yeats will again prove a tough nut for his star stayer Sergeant Cecil to crack this term.

Newmarket expect to offer record prize money of £7.4m (€11m) during the 2007 season after re-jigging their traditional racing calendar.

Newmarket officials believe the ground will be somewhere between good and good to soft for the third and final day of the Cambridgeshire meeting on Saturday.

George Washington has hardened at the head of the market as he bids to justify favouritism and give Aidan O’Brien back-to-back wins in the Stan James 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday.

GEORGE WASHINGTON is 2-1 favourite with the sponsors to give Aidan O’Brien a fourth triumph in the Stan James 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday.

RACING'S latest rags-to-riches story unfolded on the Rowley Mile as Pam Sly sent out Speciosa to take the Shadwell Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket yesterday.

Rakti could miss his European swansong after heavy rain put his participation in Saturday’s Emirates Airline Champion Stakes in serious doubt.

Ground conditions could play a major role in the outcome of tomorrow’s Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Newmarket with good going expected.

Dubawi looks almost certain to get good ground for Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Newmarket.

So often the victim of the ire of trainers, there was some rare praise for a clerk of the course after Benedict took the 32Red.com Casino Handicap over the Bunbury Mile.

Pastoral Pursuits lit up Newmarket on the final afternoon of the July meeting today to give Hughie Morrison and John Egan the thrill of a lifetime in the Darley July Cup.

SOVIET SONG was cut to 7-4 favourite (from 5-2) by Coral yesterday day to land back-to-back runnings of the UAE Equestrian And Racing Federation Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket tomorrow.

Newmarket’s Darley Dewhurst Stakes on October 16 has received 139 entries, 26 more than last season.

Connections of Kheleyf are confident of a big run in a top-class international field for the Darley July Cup at Newmarket tomorrow – as long as the forecast heavy rain does not ruin the party.

Officials at Huntingdon have been forced to abandon this afternoon’s jumps meeting due a combination of snow and frost.

OFFICIALS at Thurles will hold an inspection at 2pm today ahead of their meeting tomorrow.

AS the forecast big freeze looms, prospects for racing on turf today in Britain hinge on early-morning inspections at Sedgefield and Leicester.

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

Unlike many of Newmarket’s equine residents the Rowley Mile course has not thrived during the unusually dry spring.

Flooding has caused the abandonment of Huntingdon's popular St Stephen's Day meeting.

Monday saw one of the two French raiders for Saturday’s Sagitta 2000 Guineas nibbled at in the ante-post market on the Newmarket showpiece.

Officials at Newmarket have finished watering the Rowley Mile course ahead of the three-day Craven Meeting which gets under way tomorrow.

Prospects are upbeat for racing taking place at Huntingdon on Thursday.