Image: Steve Hart Several of last season’s top 2YO colts entered for Rosehill Group 3 A collection of colts who spent time at the head of Golden Slipper betting last season are a chance to square off in this season’s San Domenico Stakes at Rosehill. Storm Boy and Shangri La Express are among four nominations for Gai...
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Waller team springs into action with nod and a Winx to the future
Waller dominates the Winx with defending champion Fangirl, which is a drifting $2.40 favourite, the heavily supported dual derby winner Riff Rocket, and classy imported mare Via Sistina. “The first run of the prep is probably the most important, where if they are not prepared right you will flatten them, especially running over an unsuitable...
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Lausanne Diamond League Preview | Fast Running
The Diamond League returns on Thursday with a visit to Lausanne. The Swiss city hosted the first Diamond League after the Tokyo Olympics and does the same following Paris, just ten days after the Olympic Games drew to a close. James Rhodes previews the middle-distance races. The historic meeting of Athletissima is no stranger to...
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Even in Death, Speightstown’s Legacy Flourishes
We are at the point of the year when the battle for position among top sires is far from determined. Except for the top spot, where if North America’s leading sires were listed by their progeny’s earnings on a newspaper’s agate page, we’d see something that looks like this: 1. Into Mischief —X (X=clinched division) In other...
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Coolmore awaiting a spring Storm in comeback Kensington trial – ANZ Bloodstock News
By Tim Rowe Listen Fellow three-year-old Switzerland to have his first new season hit-out at Rosehill The first tentative steps in Coolmore’s hopes of having an Australian-bred Group 1-winning colt in its possession for the fourth time in five years will be taken at Sydney barrier trials this week. Three-time stakes winner and Golden Slipper...
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Sick triathlete after Paris Olympics race pushes Switzerland to change team for mixed relay
PARIS (AP) — Three days after the men’s triathlon at the Paris Olympics, the Swiss team said Saturday one of its athletes has a stomach infection and will not compete in the mixed relay event. It was “impossible to say” if Adrien Briffod’s gastrointestinal infection is linked to water quality in the River Seine, the...
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Horse racing leaders consider Paris Olympics equestrian scandal a lesson for their sport
PARIS (AP) — Horse welfare has been a major topic of conversation around the equestrian competition at the Olympics, and the scandal involving champion rider Charlotte Dujardin has attracted the attention of leaders in a related sport. Prominent members of the horse racing community consider the situation another lesson for an industry that has made...
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Paris Olympics: Men’s Mountain Bike Cross Country – Preview
The cross-country mountain bike competitions at the Paris Olympic Games take place on the opening weekend of the global sports extravaganza, with cycling events spanning July 26 to August 11. Elite women begin the XCO competitions on Saturday at Élancourt Hill, located 25km outside Paris, with the elite men following the next day, July 27....
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Paris Olympics: Women’s Mountain Bike Cross Country – Preview
Mountain biking returns to the Olympic Games for an eighth consecutive time, with the cross-country medals decided at the Élancourt Hill venue outside Paris for elite women on Saturday, July 28, a day before the men. A forecast of rain could change the complexity of the course for the women like it did three years...
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Jude Bellingham free to play for England against Switzerland after getting suspended ban
Bellingham has started all four of England’s Euro 2024 matches, scoring two of England’s four goals in Germany, including the 95th-minute overhead kick equaliser against Slovakia. England play Switzerland in Dusseldorf at 17:00 BST in a match that will be live on BBC One, BBC Radio 5 Live and the BBC Sport website and app....
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EURO 2024 PREVIEW Sat: England v Switzerland
England are 7/2 favourites for Euro 2024 glory but unless Gareth Southgate’s men improve rapidly football won’t be coming home and they face a massive test against Switzerland in their quarter-final clash, writes WILLIAM KEDJANYI. With a rich amount of attacking options, plenty of tournament experience, a solid record (runners-up in last Euros, knocked out...
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Switzerland vs England – How Will The Three Lions Line Up?
How will England Set up Against Switzerland? Gareth Southgate has hinted that he may switch to a back three or five for England’s quarter-final against Switzerland on Saturday. While some may view this as a negative tactic, it may not be a bad idea, given that Ezri Konsa has just joined the team to replace...