International (Archive)

Japanese challenger Deirdre will bring her four-race European adventure to a close in the Qipco Champion Stakes on Saturday with those closest to her confident she remains in prime condition to resume her rivalry with Magical.

Ascot-loving Pierre-Charles Boudot is dreaming of more autumn glory 13 days after his landmark Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe success on Waldgeist, with this week's rain heightening his chances.

George Washington is the only horse to have completed the 2,000 Guineas-Queen Elizabeth II Stakes double for Aidan O'Brien, but the master trainer is hoping Magna Grecia can provide him with a belated birthday present by following in his footsteps 13 years later.

Season seven of the All-Weather Championships begins at Newcastle next week, Tuesday, October 22, and culminates with the hugely popular £1-million All-Weather Championships Finals Day at Lingfield Park on Good Friday, April 10, 2020.

After more than a quarter-century in Dubai, six-time UAE champion trainer Doug Watson still gets excited this time of year, especially with the UAE flat season commencing at Meydan Racecourse for the first time on October 24.

Promising novice hurdler The Butcher Said will go in search of his fifth straight win over hurdles in the £20,000 Ballymore Novices' Hurdle (2.00pm, 2m 5f) at Cheltenham on day one of The Showcase, Friday, 25 October.

A colt by SiyouniI was the star turn on the final day of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale at Newmarket on Wednesday at 600,000 guineas as the sale returned a record turnover and median whilst the highest price for a yearling at this fixture was broken twice

Frankie Dettori’s possible book of rides for Qipco British Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday has bookmakers as concerned as they were at the height of summer and it is little surprise, given he is the most successful rider in the lucrative raceday’s eight-year history.

Conditional jockey Jonjo O'Neill jnr was hit with a 12-day ban for taking the wrong course on Project Bluebook in the 2m handicap hurdle at Wetherby.

James Doyle is concerned that switching British Champions Day to the inner hurdles track at Ascot on Saturday may help the opposition as he seeks a second win in the Group 1 Qipco Champion Stakes.

With further rain expected and Ascot's round course already waterlogged, clerk of the course Chris Stickels has moved the three affected races on Saturday's Qipco British Champions Day card to the inner hurdles track.

Pinatubo has stormed to the head of the Cartier Two-Year-Old Colt category in this year's Cartier Racing Awards following his determined victory in the G1 Darley Dewhurst Stakes.

A colt and a filly by Archipenko and Night Of Thunder respectively shared top billing at 425,000 guineas during the second session of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, at Newmarket on Tuesday as trade continued in robust style.

Dual Group 1 winner Japan, fourth in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on his last start, is likely to miss the Qipco Champion Stakes on Saturday and could be finished for the season.

Superstar mare Enable will race on as a six-year-old in 2020, her connections revealed on Tuesday.

Dr Natasha Hamilton, the Director of the Equine Genetics Research Laboratory in Scone, New South Wales, named Chairman of the Gene Doping Control Subcommittee of the Advisory Council on Equine Prohibited Substances and Practices

Prize-money is set to be cut in the majority of South Africa's racing centres by an average of 13 per cent from next month with Cape Town’s showpiece race, the Sun Met, the biggest sufferer.

Nottingham's meeting on Wednesday is under threat as the course has been forced to call an inspection at 8am on raceday morning.

Martyn Meade is undeterred about the prospect of heavy ground at Ascot on Saturday as star sprinter Advertise looks to bring the curtain down on a fabulous career with a fourth top-level success in the Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes.

Wetherby's new Jump season starts with its annual Spinal Research charity raceday on Wednesday, October 16.