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Ghaiyyath beats Enable in race of the season: here’s the Coral-Eclipse takeaway
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‘I didn’t expect to be sitting here’ – Emmet McNamara on his amazing Derby win with Serpentine
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Four-time German champion jockey Filip Minarik in induced coma after race fall
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Are you listening Battaash? Kieren Fallon says Golden Pal ‘would definitely win the Nunthorpe’

Va-va-voom: Vekoma goes all the way for second G1 success in Met Mile

Vekoma landed a second successive victory in G1 company when he went wire-to-wire in the Met Mile at Belmont Park.

French Derby: dawn of new era as Andreas Schutz seeks return to past glories

Four-time German champion Andreas Schutz insists Dawn Intello is not just making up the numbers in the Prix du Jockey Club.

Enable vs Ghaiyyath: Coral-Eclipse is the race of the season says Charlie Appleby

Although John Gosden warns that Enable will need the race, Ghaiyyath’s trainer Charlie Appleby says the dual Arc winner deserves the utmost respect in the Coral-Eclipse.

Career of Michael ‘The King’ Coleman may be over after freak accident

Michael Coleman, one of New Zealand’s most successful jockeys, could be facing the end of his career after being injured when a horse rolled on top of him.

Oisin Murphy: Derby D-Day for Kameko – but the truth is we don’t know if he’ll stay

In his blog for the Qipco British Champions Series and Sporting Life, the champion jockey looks ahead to Investec Derby weekend.

‘I am massively excited, he ticks a lot of boxes’ – trainers on their Derby hopes

Read what the trainers have to say about their chances in the Investec Derby at Epsom.

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Germany: Duhnen mudflats A mixed racecard (also featuring trotters) is held annually in July on what is effectively the seabed at Duhnen, a North Sea resort on the outskirts of the port city of Cuxhaven. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Elbe estuary, an international shipping lane, the racing surface is exposed by the ebbing tide. About 30,000 spectators attend, watching from the nearby dyke.
Germany: ‘Seejagdrennen’ (lake chases) Germany’s abbreviated jumps programme (less than 20 races) features four examples of ‘Seejagdrennen’, wherein horses have to negotiate a large body of water. Best-known are the two at Bad Harzburg in Lower Saxony in July, though the lake is deeper at Hamburg, requiring some equine doggy paddle during the Deutsches Derby meeting. Quakenbruck hosts the other one.
Japan: Ban’ei racing on Hokkaido Staged only at the suburban racetrack of Obihiro on ‘horse island’ Hokkaido, ban’ei (‘pull play’) involves sturdy draught horses twice the weight of thoroughbreds pulling heavy iron sleds along a straight 200-metre sand track featuring a pair of inclines. You can bet on it, there’s a starting gate and ‘jockeys’ wear conventional silks.
USA: Twin-horse chariot racing Ben Hur-style is the order of the day at the Golden Spike Event Center in Ogden, Utah, on the edge of the Rockies just north of Salt Lake City. Teams compete in a series of drag races over 440 yards lasting about 22 seconds; the ‘American Chariot Racing World Championships’ are held in March.
Spain: Beach racing at Sanlucar de Barrameda about 50km northwest of Cadiz, happens twice a year in August. Dating back to 1845, this historic event was the first regulated racing in Spain. Massive crowds can be expected for full-scale race meetings, starting every day as the sun goes down at low tide – usually about 6pm.