Popular stayer Big Orange will have up to 15 rivals in his bid for a record third Goodwood Cup.

Popular stayer Trip To Paris, winner of the 2015 Gold Cup at Royal Ascot and runner-up to Mongolian Khan in the Caulfield Cup, has been retired from racing.

Already at the top of the pecking order among her own age group, dual Oaks winner Enable has stormed to a decisive win against proven older horses in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot overnight.

The trainer at the centre of the mistaken identity case at Yarmouth is hoping authorities show leniency.

From the astonishing to the abysmal. In a drab performance that offered not the merest glimmer of his sensational display at the Dubai World Cup, Arrogate could beat only one home as a 1-20 shot in the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap, won in stunning runaway fashion by all-the-way scorer Accelerate

Jamie Spencer may have to brush up on his Spanish after being offered the ride on Argentinian pioneer Sixties Song in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday week.

Deauville, placed in Group 1 company on his last two starts, drops in grade for the Group 3 Icon Meld Stakes at Leopardstown on Thursday evening, when he will face four rivals including The Grey Gatsby.

Ana O'Brien, daughter of trainer Aidan and Ireland's leading apprentice, could be out of action until November after fracturing vertebrae in her neck, the T6 in her back, bilateral cheekbones and right facial bone into her eye socket following a horror fall at Killarney on Tuesday evening.

Bela-Bela will end her great racing career in the R1m, Grade World Sports Betting Champions Cup (1800m) at Greyville on Saturday week.

Thunder Snow has won the Gr. 1 Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly overnight to erase memories of his Kentucky Derby antics.

Roger Varian celebrated a second success in five years in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes, and his third top level win in Ireland, with Nezwaah running out an impressive winner of the fillies and mares event under Andrea Atzeni.

Aidan O'Brien registered a remarkable 12th victory in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby – 20 years after his first – after Capri edged out British raider Cracksman and Derby hero Wings Of Eagles in a thrilling three-way finish.