Marcus Armytage

2 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Marcus Armytage

Stanhope Gardens 16/1Interesting runner and somewhat unknown quantity from the same stable as Pride of Arras. Only a neck behind Delacroix at two puts him right in the picture. Had little more than a racecourse gallop in a three runner race at Salisbury a fortnight ago which should have blown the cobwebs away. If there's a double figure odds winner, he is the most likely. Nightwalker 33/1Well behind Delacroix when they met at two.

1 week ago | msn.com | Marcus Armytage

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1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Marcus Armytage

These days Kirby, 36, happily runs a successful pre-training and breaking yard at Vicarage Farm - I would venture it is a while since a vicar lived there - just outside Kirtling, an oasis of equine tranquillity seven miles from Newmarket, the busiest horse-training hub in the world. But at a time of year when he would have been busiest as a jockey, it is now the quiet before the autumn-winter storm of yearlings - 150 of them, including 60 for Godolphin last year - to be broken in.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Marcus Armytage

The Kentucky Derby has been a proverbial graveyard for UAE Derby winners, hence why Osborne opted to run at Preakness instead. "It would have been too soon and why go and take on 20 in a race, which would be a bit alien to what he's been doing when two weeks later you could run against a smaller field [nine runners] and benefit from the extra time, it made more sense," he says. "Toast won the UAE Derby on Tapeta, it wasn't a dirt track. His first run on dirt was in the Classic.

2 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Marcus Armytage

Saffie Osborne is embodying the spirit of adventure that racing needs this weekend. The 23-year-old Briton will bid to win £1 million on Saturday night as she becomes only the fourth female to ride in the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the United States Triple Crown. Fresh from her last-gasp win in last week’s Victoria Cup on 22-1 shot Hickory at Ascot, Osborne will be riding Heart Of Honor at Pimlico in Maryland – a horse trained by her father Jamie.