Dettori and Coolmore: not only is it intriguing, it’s also understandable. Camelot mightn’t have won the Arc but the sounds of satisfaction in Tipperary at having rubbed Godolphin’s eye in it by nicking their jockey for the day will nevertheless have reverberated all the way to Dubai. Most of all, though, the idea of Dettori and Coolmore makes sense. (more…)

Hindsight is an exact science, which makes it dirty pool to employ it too rigorously on such an inexact pursuit as racing. But even so there appear to be an awful lot of after-the-race merchants willing to put Joseph O’Brien’s Camelot ride in the Leger under the microscope and come up with a negative verdict. And you have to ask why? (more…)

They get enough flak when getting it wrong so the least the Leopardstown stewards deserve is a ‘thumbs-up’ for getting it right when the pressure was on in the Matron Stakes. (more…)