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A slow build up over the midweek, reached its peak on Saturday, with top class racing at Newmarket, featuring the Dewhurst Stakes, which was inevitably won by the impressive Too Darn Hot and the Cesarewitch which saw Low Sun take the spoils by a neck ahead of Uradel. At York another big race day, saw Vintage Brut take the Rockingham Stakes in impressive style, beating favourite, Dave Dexter by four and a half lengths

Our horse racing expert Kevin O’Malley unearths a Dark Horse in every ITV Racing televised race today, including the main event, the Cesarewitch Handicap. Some big prices and interesting horses here, check them out!!

We have Group 1 action on a superb flat card on the Rowley Mile on Friday, where the opening 1.50pm contest is a quality Group 3 over 5f. A race for 2yo horses, Karl Burke's consistent juvenile True Mason is the market leader after a string of excellent efforts of late…

The 2018 Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe will linger long in the memory as one of the finest renewals in recent decades, with the brilliant and determined Enable getting the better of the young pretender Sea Of Class, in a thrilling finish to the €5,000,000 showpiece…

Sunday sees the Prix de l ‘Arc de Triomphe meeting head to the revamped ParisLongchamp after two years at Chantilly. The venue may have changed but the quality of the card is as good as ever, with six Group 1s for Thoroughbreds alone.

What does it take to be a truly great filly? Class? Sure. Speed, absolutely. The ability to negotiate troubled passages; to travel well, mental toughness, balance, versatility, consistency. All of these things are key to any equine great, but the ones that are remembered most are those who overcome adversity and return from it to take what is theirs…