Pallasator boosted his claims for the Betfred Ebor with an emphatic victory in the GL Events Owen Brown Handicap at Ascot yesterday.

The opening race on totesport Dante day at York saw a local winner as Mick Easterby's Ancient Cross landed the totepool Stakes.

Red-hot favourite Racy won the opening EBF Poppin Lane Maiden Stakes at Pontefract today under a hands-and-heels ride by champion jockey Ryan Moore.

Racy period drama 'The Tudors' brings “shame” on the BBC with its “ignorance” of the facts, one of Britain’s best-known historians has claimed.