All news by author: Jon Lees

Harry With Style’s rider Lian Wilson suffered a broken nose in the incident at the end of a race for stable staff at Nottingham on Thursday

Both riders were stood down immediately by officials after they were found to have engaged in "violent conduct towards each other" in a racecourse changing room

The horse which bears the name of the controversial handball goal awarded to Argentina against England in the quarter finals of the 1986 World Cup was a well backed winner

Callum Shepherd was replaced on Ambiente Friendly, who finished second in the Epsom Classic, but enjoyed a big day in the sun when Isle Of Jura landed the Hardwicke Stakes

Crystal Black was bought as a tribute to a friend of the four winning owners from the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes, who had raised money for cancer care

According to Peter Molony, the purported alterations for the Mares' Hurdle would have prevented the superstar hurdler from winning the race twice

Ryan Moore performed heroics to rescue a massive £100,000 bet on Fairy Godmother to get up and score in the Albany Stakes on the Aidan O'Brien filly

The Ballydoyle trainer has got into the habit of thanking the members of staff involved with his winners but ITV’s Matt Chapman wanted to hear about Gold Cup winner Kyprios

Top stayer Trueshan has been ruled out of the £650,000 feature prize for the fourth time after no rain fell at the racecourse overnight but has been declared for the Queen Alexandra Stakes

David Howden, who is pouring millions into racing as an owner and corporate sponsor, realised a dream when his filly took the Duke of Cambridge Stakes

Star Sports took its biggest wager of the week on Auguste Rodin in the £1m Prince of Wales’s Stakes which cost the firm more than £162,000

Newsboy marks you card for every race at Royal Ascot and predicts a 1-2-3 for the fixture on Thursday from seven highly competitive races

The Normandy farm is where the brother of Cheltenham Festival stars Douvan and Jonbon, Herostar stands as a stallion - and he was unaffected

The mare became the eighth winner from down under to score at the royal meeting, capturing the King Charles III Stakes for Henry Dwyer

The charismatic jockey, whose presence is badly missed in Britain where he rode for 32 years, is visiting from his new home in the US and not riding at the royal meeting

Daniel and Claire Kubler, who run Astro King in the Wolferton Stakes, say they have received an increasing amount of unkind texts, emails and offensive phone calls

There are runners from France, Australia and the US at this year's five day royal meeting, as well as the usual powerful contingent from Ireland

John 'Shark' Hanlon said the tarpaulin originally covering the corpse had come undone while it was being transported to an animal disposal facility

The body of Toby Sheets, 55, who worked for Steve Asmussen in the US, was found on the beach in Mathraki in the latest tragic incident involving a tourist

Moore, the leading jockey at the last two royal meetings, has welcomed the pledge from Ascot to donate to Retraining of Racehorses, the charity for retired racehorses

Michael Poy advised a professional punter to have a match bet on his horse to beat another jockey’s mount, it was alleged at a tribunal hearing

Sergeant Wayne Stephens explained his ensemble for a day’s work at the Derby in a video which has been viewed more than 5,000 times

James Doyle, now one of Europe’s elite jockeys who will be riding at Royal Ascot, almost gave it all up when struggling for winners earlier in his career

Chelsey Reynolds was in a life-threatening condition, put in an induced coma and underwent surgery to release pressure on her brain after an incident at a private training facility in February

Luckless Aurelien Lemaitre, already replaced on Big Rock and Blue Rose Cen, will also miss out on the 1,000 Guineas third at the world famous meeting