Rosallion to turn tide with Docklands in Ascot’s QEII October 14, 2025 BRITISH Champions Day from Ascot is always a great spectacle and the seven races on this year’s card look stacked with quality. All eyes will be on the third meeting this season of Ombudsman and Delacroix in the Champions Stakes (4.05pm). The score stands at one-a-piece after their meetings in the Eclipse and Juddmonte International, [...]
Oliver and Witch the ones for Balmoral value Hunters October 14, 2025 AFTER racing fans have feasted on the five Champions Day Group Ones, it’ll be time to turn attention to the cavalry charge finale that is the Balmoral Handicap (4.40pm). Native Warrior heads the betting at 5/1, and while he’s bidding to land an Ascot hat-trick, I’m reminded that shorter-priced horses don’t have the best record [...]
Joy ready to Thrive again with Wong in the saddle October 14, 2025 HAPPY Valley in Hong Kong hosts an attractive nine-race card on Wednesday, with a couple of strong nine-furlong handicaps and a competitive sprint handicap over six furlongs at 3.15pm. Trainers Mark Newnham, David Hayes and Caspar Fownes continue to dominate in the early stages of the trainers’ championship race – the three of them were [...]
Glorious chance for Crawford to strike with Forever October 14, 2025 REGULAR racing pundits will have been quick to mark down Sunday’s Serenade as a next start winner in waiting after the Jamie Richards-trained gelding never saw daylight down the home straight over seven furlongs at Sha Tin a fortnight ago. The five-year-old seeks redemption in division two of the Hung Luen Handicap (1.40pm) over the [...]
Exclusive: R360 want season launch at Barcelona FC’s Camp Nou October 14, 2025 R360 organisers want to launch the first edition of their new global rugby franchise competition next year at the redeveloped Camp Nou in Barcelona. 2 October 2026 has been penciled in as R360’s launch date – despite setbacks in recent weeks which have seen the eight biggest unions announce that any players who join the [...]
Super League closing on external investment as Ashes loom October 14, 2025 The Rugby Football League is closing in on private equity investment for the Super League despite hopes of an injection from the Australian NRL collapsing. NRL chief executive Peter V’landys had said he would hold informal discussions with supportive Super League clubs during this month’s Ashes between England and Australia, but it appears that the [...]
‘Stick to the rules’: Brighton owner Bloom slams clubs who fail PSR October 14, 2025 Brighton and Hove Albion owner Tony Bloom says he has little sympathy for rival Premier League clubs such as Everton and Nottingham Forest who have been punished for breaching profitability and sustainability rules (PSR). Top-flight teams are set to vote next month on whether to replace PSR with a new system of financial controls based [...]
Littler under new darts management days after going solo October 14, 2025 Luke Littler has become the first player to be managed by Target Darts just days after announcing he’d gone solo. The teenager has catapulted into sporting stardom, and earlier this year won his first World Darts Championship title at Ally Pally. Last week, however, he split from Martin Foulds’ ZXF Sports, whom he’d been with [...]
Sony Sports tightening grip on world of data in sport October 14, 2025 “We never like to use the word monopoly, it doesn’t go down well,” the head of Sony Sports, Rufus Hack, tells City AM when asked about his firm’s impressive market share across tech in sport. Sony last week purchased a majority stake in StatSports, the performance-tracking firm which counts Harry Kane among its investors, in [...]
Messi and Más+ sued by Logan Paul and KSI’s Prime October 14, 2025 Lionel Messi is being sued by Logan Paul’s hydration drinks firm Prime over claims of false advertising. A false advertising complaint was filed last week in a Florida court alleging Inter Miami and Argentina superstar Messi had made contradictory statements about his collaboration with “Más+ by Messi” drinks. Prime Hydration, a rival to Más+, alleges [...]