Aidan O’Brien’s main thoughts will be on the first Classics of the season at Newmarket but the trainer will have one eye on the action across the Atlantic as Lines Of Battle goes for glory in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.

Aidan O’Brien’s Lines Of Battle will race from stall 11 in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday night.

EVER wonder what showtime must have been like at Rome’s Colosseum? Cast your mind back to Ireland and Italy’s recent rugby showdown at the Stadio Olimpico. The Six Nations is as close as rugby gets to all-out gladiatorial combat: by the time the Irish and Italian teams were done tearing chunks out of each other, bruised and battered bodies were legion.

Mike Smith pulled off an emotional success as Drosselmeyer claimed the Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs in an epic finish last night.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR dazzled the world with her luminous beauty, lavish lifestyle — and an unquenchable passion for diamonds and jewels that was fuelled by the great loves of her life.

ONE of Spain’s richest women is to marry at the age of 85, to a man 25 years her junior, despite opposition from her children.

PROSECUTORS say they will call up to 50 witnesses in their case against three girls accused of bullying an Irish classmate so relentlessly that she took her own life.

THREE US teenagers previously indicted for charges related to the bullying death of County Clare schoolgirl Phoebe Prince entered not guilty pleas at a Massachusetts Court.

TRAGIC Irish teenager Phoebe Prince felt like she was in a movie when she first arrived at her American high school last September.

Jamie Spencer will be replaced on Crowded House by John Velazquez in the 10million Dubai World Cup at Meydan later this month.

Supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya clashed with police in the Honduran capital and some of them attacked the second-ranking member of Congress.

Habaayib kicked off day four of Royal Ascot with a blinding exhibition of pace in the Albany Stakes.

John Velazquez has been booked to partner the Jeremy Noseda-trained Araafa in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Churchill Downs on November 4.

London's National Gallery's hotly anticipated Velazquez exhibition opens today, with a record number of advance ticket sales ensuring it will be a blockbuster.

LUAS LINE completed a hat-trick of wins with success in the Grade One Garden City Breeders’ Cup Stakes at Belmont Park on Saturday.

Luas Line completed a hat-trick of wins with success in the Grade One Garden City Breeders’ Cup Stakes at Belmont Park.

Hot favourite Roses In May ran out an impressive winner of the world’s richest race, the Dubai World Cup, at Nad Al Sheba today.

For one northern Mexican town, an army of cats seemed like the best strategy against a plague of mice.

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