Wesley Ward would prefer to wait until next year before testing Lady Aurelia against Australia's best sprinters in their own back yard, but he may yet have a runner in the inaugural running of the world's richest turf race, The Everest.

The Champs-Elysees may have become the likeliest starting point for the City Racing concept being pursued by the Jockey Club after Westminster Council reversed its approval for a series of thoroughbred contests up London's Oxford Street.

Five-year-old Satono Crown claimed this year’s Takarazuka Kinen to capture his second Group 1 title, at Hanshin on Sunday, his first in Japan.

The James Fanshawe-trained The Tin Man (9/2) gained his second success at Group 1 level with a thrilling victory in the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes (1200m) at Royal Ascot on Saturday.

Ballydoyle maestro Aidan O'Brien scooped the QIPCO Royal Ascot Top Trainer Award for the eighth time and third in succession after a final day double provided him with his sixth victory of the 2017 Royal Meeting and 60th Royal Ascot winner overall.

The well-supported 11/8 favourite September provided Aidan O'Brien with his fifth victory of the week at Royal Ascot and 60th winner of the Royal Meeting with a smooth success in the Listed Chesham Stakes (1400m) on Saturday.

Winter confirmed her superiority in the three-year-old fillies' 1600m division with a decisive victory in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes (1600m) at Royal Ascot on Friday

The Aidan O'Brien-trained and well-backed 5/6 favourite Caravaggio produced a spellbinding performance comprising speed and stamina to land the third running of the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup (1200m) at Royal Ascot on Friday.

The John Gosden-trained Stradivarius set up a tilt at the St Leger at Doncaster in September with a gutsy victory in the G2 Queen's Vase at Royal Ascot.

Big Orange put up the performance of the meeting to win the feature race, the G1 Gold Cup

Globetrotting superstar Highland Reel (9/4) stamped his class on the Group 1 Prince Of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot on Wednesday with a game performance to provide Ballydoyle handler Aidan O'Brien with his 56th victory at the Royal Meeting and his first success of the week at the Berkshire venue.

Wesley Ward's speedster Lady Aurelia (7/2) produced a devastating display in the G1 King's Stand Stakes to land her second race in succession at Royal Ascot, following her victory in last year's Queen Mary Stakes and simultaneously provide her American handler with his eighth victory at the Royal Meeting.

The Godolphin-owned colt Ribchester registered a convincing length and a quarter success in a new course record time in the G1 Queen Anne Stakes over the straight mile, the first race of this year's Royal Meeting.

The line-up for the inaugural Lady Jockeys’ Thoroughbred World Championship has been strengthened with announcement of three more top riders

Following rolling implementation during recent months, all post-race tests at Royal Ascot will be carried out using a new mobile app, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) announced today.

Sixties Song may well be the best thing to come out of Argentina since Lionel Messi, and Ascot racegoers will be able to see for themselves next month when the rising star is due to travel over to contest the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

He is coming to the party a day late but John Gosden is preparing to arrive at Royal Ascot in style with a trio of favourites to unleash, headed by spectacular Dubai World Cup night winner Jack Hobbs.

Michelle Payne has arrived in England ahead of her ride on Kaspersky in the Queen Anne Stakes, the first race of the Royal Ascot meeting.

Frankie Dettori has had a scare ahead of the Royal Ascot meeting, suffering a sore shoulder in a fall before the first race at Yarmouth overnight.

Trainer Freddy Head is looking to Terrakova to do something her mother could not in the Prix de Diane at Chantilly.

Red Cardinal is likely to follow a similar programme to Protectionist towards a start in the Melbourne Cup.

Injured English jockey George Baker has made a racetrack appearance as a spectator at Goodwood for the first time since suffering a bleed on the brain in a fall on the ice at St Moritz.

Godolphin, racing's biggest global operation, was on Tuesday seeking to move forward from an episode of acute public embarrassment, with chief executive John Ferguson leaving the employment of Sheikh Mohammed after a quarter of a century after his relationship breakdown with trainer Saeed Bin Suroor.

The European Commission has revealed the reasoning behind its decision to give state aid approval to the UK Government's reform of the levy system, a ruling described by the BHA as "unequivocal" in its acceptance of the UK's case.

Code Warrior dueled early and had more than enough left in the tank in taking Sunday's $129,050 Grade 3 Hendrie Stakes at Woodbine.

The day after the Investec Derby was turned on its head in the closing stages, the French version, the Group 1 QIPCO Prix du Jockey Club (2000m) at Chantilly on Sunday was the subject of similar drama, though this time it was the warm favourite and not an outsider that flew late down the outside.

Outsider Wings Of Eagles (40/1) gave trainer Aidan O'Brien a 1-2 in the Investec Derby at Epsom, pouncing near the line to deny stablemate and 5/1 shot Cliffs Of Moher by three quarters of a length.

Trainer John Gosden and owner Khalid Abdullah registered their second victories in the Investec Oaks after 6/1 shot Enable ran out a decisive winner of the fillies' Classic at Epsom Downs.

Trainer Aidan O'Brien won his eighth Investec Coronation Cup with Highland Reel, who made most of the running and held off a determined challenge from second-placed Frontiersman.

It has been four years since Aidan O'Brien trained the winner of the Coronation Cup. That rates a bit of dry spell for a man who made it his own for the best part of a decade with the likes of St Nicholas Abbey and Yeats.

A total of 19 horses have been declared to run in Saturday's Investec Derby at Epsom Downs, which is the biggest field since 20 went to post in 2003 when Kris Kin (6/1) landed a huge gamble for Sir Michael Stoute and Kieren Fallon.