16-09-2020 Emma Blackburn
This year marks the 25th year of Dubai Duty Free’s association with Newbury Racecourse, which hosts Dubai Duty Free International Weekend on Friday, 18 and Saturday 19, September, featuring the Group 2 Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes, won in the past by the likes of Harry Angel, Ribchester and...
Read more13-08-2020 Harriet Collins
Unibet will once again support Newbury Racecourse's two-day behind closed doors fixture on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 August. With Saturday due to be broadcast on ITV1 and Sunday on ITV4, Unibet are sponsoring a total of 16 races across the weekend, including the Group 2 Unibet Hungerford Stakes for...
Read more17-07-2020 Harriet Collins
Lambourn based Clive Cox is aiming to win THE Weatherbys Super Sprint for the first time with Get It, who was most recently placed fourth in the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot and is a general 5-1 joint favourite for the race with betting partner, bet365.
Read more13-07-2020
It was a very different looking Barbury Castle Estate venue for the very belated opening of the eventing season after the Covid-19 lockdown. This was a 'behind close doors' programme shortened to two days - Saturday & Sunday 11 & 12 July - and held in wonderful sunny weather.
Read more25-06-2020
Back at the beginning of March, before the equestrian world found itself behind closed doors, then in lockdown and now once again behind closed doors, we reported on a locally trained hope for the new Flat season. Hopes were high for a new recruit to Brian Meehan's Manton yard.
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Barbury Horse Trials will be kicking off the return of the British eventing season next month - organised as last year by Musketeer Event Management.
Read more08-06-2020 Harriet Collins
Racing returns to Newbury Racecourse this Thursday (June 11) - behind closed doors. A finalised order of running, as well as sponsorship details for this week’s three-day restart fixture has been announced.
Read more04-06-2020
Staff at Newbury racecourse are looking forward to the resumption of racing with three racedays next week - Thursday 11, Friday 12 and Saturday 13 June.
Read more21-05-2020
With the birth of a foal at Karina Casini's national hunt stud farm near Marlborough, the winner of Newbury Racecourse's 2019 Ladbrokes Trophy Chase De Rasher Counter has gained a full brother.
Read more09-04-2020 A Correspondent
Just because there is no racing, Newbury Racecourse have not stopped helping their neighbours. They have launched a partnership with Age Concern Newbury & District and Swift Couriers to feed the most vulnerable elderly in West Berkshire during the COVID-19 crisis.
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A spectacular jump at Barbury Racecourse - now not all their contests are over the sticksMany point-to-points have run charity races and recently the Barbury International has introduced the bumper - both over flat courses.
Highly Prized in his box at Bonita Racing StablesEmma Lavelle is training ex-US Flat horse Highly Prized for a tilt at the £155,000 Betfair Hurdle, opening up the chance for her to complete a famous double in Newbury’s two richest jumps prizes.
Not So Sleepy, who trounced a competitive field to win the Betfair Exchange Trophy at Ascot before Christmas, could pursue the sponsor’s £100,000 bonus at Newbury next month after he was one of 56 horses engaged in the £155,000 Betfair Hurdle.
ThymeHill and Richard Johnson (nearest the camera)Thyme Hill laid claim to the mantle of Britain’s leading staying novice hurdler when he extended an unbeaten start to his career over obstacles with victory in the Grade 1 Betway Challow Hurdle at Newbury (December 28).
Champ & Barry Geraghty going to post for the 2018 Challow HurdleThyme Hill will seek to maintain an unbeaten start to his hurdling career when he steps back into Grade 1 company to contest the Betway Challow Novices’ Hurdle at Newbury on Saturday (December 28) - a prize won in the past by Denman.
Your Darling & Nico de Boinville making good progress in the Premier Food Courts bumper The eagerly anticipated debut of Sprinter Sacre’s full brother ended in defeat for Flinteur Sacre at Newbury on Wednesday (January 15) by a horse called Your Darling, who Henrietta Knight compared to the great Best Mate.
Hattie Ffooks riding Smooth Talk at the Wilton trials (Photo: Topshot Photography)The Wilton Horse Trials, which will take place in Wilton Park, near Salisbury on Saturday, July 25 and Sunday, July 26 2020, has announced Wiltshire Life as the event’s new title sponsors.
Emma Lavelle will try to end a memorable 2019 at Newbury with yet more big race glory when she bids to land the track’s final feature race of the year, the Grade 1 Betway Challow Hurdle, with Eclair Surf (Saturday, 28 December 2019).
Sara Bradstock on Eglantier and Lily Bradstock on Dambys Star Sara Bradstock is steeped in the sports of horse racing and point-to-pointing.
