Back Almaqam to show star potential in the Gordon Richards April 22, 2025 YOU know that the Flat season is starting to kick into gear when Friday’s Gordon Richards Stakes card rolls around. A Group Two and a pair of Group Threes headline a cracking day’s racing, and while many racing fans will be focused on the tantalising Jumps Trainers’ title fight between Willie Mullins and Dan Skelton, [...]
Legend and Sugar to give Fownes sweet Valley success April 22, 2025 HONG Kong racing fans have plenty to look forward to today when Happy Valley hosts another action-packed nine-race programme starting at 11.40am. Trainer Caspar Fownes’ title challenge may have stalled in recent weeks, but the proclaimed ‘King of the Valley’ to his many thousands of fans can still get them ready at his favourite venue. [...]
Newnham in Flying form as he seeks another winning Moment April 22, 2025 MARK Newnham’s stable will be looking for a confidence booster at Happy Valley before their stable star My Wish steps onto the turf for his date with destiny in the FWD Group One Champions Mile at Sha Tin on Sunday. Newnham has been a regular visitor to the winners’ circle all season, having struck the [...]
Littler to headline Hyde Park as darts hits iconic London festival April 22, 2025 Luke Littler will headline The Hyde Park Darts Championship this year as the sport descends on the London park’s summer of festivities. The likes of Stevie Wonder, Neil Young and Sabrina Carpenter will headline on the main stage of the famous London royal park as it hosts a series of major concerts, but The Nuke [...]
The Open at Turnberry? Trump given fresh hope of hosting major April 22, 2025 The Open Championship organisers have raised hopes that Donald Trump’s Turnberry could come in from the cold and stage the golf major again. Turnberry has not staged the Open since five years before the current US president’s 2014 purchase of the Ayrshire resort, amid suspicions that it has been unofficially blackballed over the Trump connection. [...]
Manchester City v Premier League legal hearing set for October April 22, 2025 Manchester City’s latest legal challenge to Premier League rules on associated party transactions is expected to go to trial in October. The reigning champions launched proceedings in January against a new version of the rules, having succeeded with a claim against the legality of the old regulations last year. Other Premier League clubs received details [...]
Gary Lineker: BBC pushed me out of £1.3m Match of the Day job April 22, 2025 Gary Lineker has revealed that the BBC pushed him out of his long-running £1.3m job as presenter of Match of the Day. Lineker’s departure at the end of this season after 26 years in the role was announced in November, with the BBC describing the move as him “stepping down” and saying he’d be “hugely [...]
‘Doing nothing isn’t an option’: How UK Sport is tackling sustainability April 22, 2025 On Earth Day, UK Sport CEO Sally Munday argues that collaboration is the key to a more sustainable future for the games and recreation that we love. At UK Sport, we firmly believe that by working together we can tackle the biggest challenges we face. Climate change is certainly one of those. We can see [...]
England cricket chiefs blasted for ‘refusing to hold India to account’ April 21, 2025 England and Australia have been castigated for a “refusal to hold India to account” after allowing the cricket-mad nation to tighten its vice-like grip on the game. India now boasts the chair of the International Cricket Council, Jay Shah, to go along with the largest share of revenues from the game and the world’s leading [...]
Guardiola calls on Man City faithful in race for Champions League April 21, 2025 Pep Guardiola has called on the Manchester City faithful to come out in force on Tuesday as his club look to take a step towards Champions League qualification at the Etihad. The Spaniard’s side have been poor this year, having won the previous four Premier League titles, but remain in the table’s top six. They [...]