Lambourn News

July Cup winner Starman will miss the Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes and has been retired to stud. He suffered a minor setback while being prepared for Saturday’s Ascot showdown and will [...]

Altior, who slipped seamlessly into the big boots of the mighty Sprinter Sacre as the kingpin at Nicky Henderson’s powerful yard and set a world record of 19 consecutive wins over jumps, [...]

Battaash, the best sprinter of his generation who touched so many hearts during his racing career over six seasons, left Charlie Hills’s Lambourn stable for the final time on Wednesday [...]

Coronation Cup winner Pyledriver will miss next week’s Juddmonte International Stakes at York due to continued tenderness on a pulled muscle that ruled the colt out of last month’s [...]

An emotional Charlie Hills was close to tears as he paid tribute to Battaash, describing arguably the greatest gelding ever trained on the Flat in Britain as his horse of a lifetime. It is ten [...]

Ed Walker has always had an unshakeable belief in Starman but anyone who had caught the Lambourn trainer shortly before Saturday’s Group 1 Darley July Cup will have seen that belief, for [...]

Late money forced Oxted down from 8-1 to 4-1 and it proved to be a well-founded gamble as Cieren Fallon calmly plotted his way to a first Royal Ascot success in the most furious race of the week. [...]

William Muir enjoyed a first success at Group 1 level along with joint-trainer Chris Grassick, as Pyledriver broke the heart of Al Aasy to land a thrilling Coral Coronation Cup on rain-softened [...]

A crowd of 12,000 will be able to attend each day of Royal Ascot next month following confirmation from the course the five-day fixture has been selected as one of the government’s pilot [...]

Former trainer Charlie Mann can now enjoy a more leisurely pace of life after his last horse, Robaddan, sold as the first lot on the second and final day of the Goffs UK Horses in Training and [...]