Bookmakers will be shouting for a couple of shock results on the first day of Royal Ascot to kick-start what promises to be the biggest betting week of the summer.

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

President Obama has declared a "major disaster" in New York and Long Island after superstorm Sandy swept across the east coast of America, killing at least 16 people.