The Latest Breaking News from Newbury

Lope De Lilas will start as one of the favourites for Saturday’s Irish Oaks, while Newbury stages the Super Sprint

Economics easily won the last recognised Derby trial at York on Wednesday but is unlikely to turn up at Epsom

Classy hurdler confirms his status as the biggest threat to hot Champion Hurdle favourite with smooth Leopardstown win

Datsalrightgino, from Jamie Snowden’s stable in Lambourn, outstayed Mahler Mission after the final fence at Newbury on Saturday to win the Coral Gold Cup

Newbury MP Laura Farris described David Barlow and his South African-born wife Celia Geyer as a ‘much-loved couple’.

A picture-book, farm-to-plate experience

When it came to the West End in 2007, “The Lord of the Rings” was a “notorious flop”, said Dominic Cavendish in The Daily Telegraph. A spectacular mega-musical, incorporating folk, Bollywood influences and pop, it had cost a record-breaking £12.5m to stage, at the 2,000- seat Theatre Royal Drury Lane,…

There is little to choose between the top two in the betting at the Curragh and the selection looks a decent bet at 4-1

Newsboy fancies his nap, Lunar Landscape, to go like a rocket at Newbury and also hopes Areille can score at Yarmouth and complete his Daily Double

Our man expects Eldar Eldarov (4.20) to get the job done for Roger Varian in the Ascot Gold Cup and he also fancies the Aidan O'Brien-trained Bertinelli (3.05) to prosper in the King George V Stakes

Eve Johnson Houghton's five-year-old wins the Group Three feature on Merseyside and connections eyeing more success for the rest of the season