Tony Paley

England, London

Digital Sport News and Racing Editor at The Guardian

Following the horses, PNE & England since 1966. 58 years of hurt. Digital news (sport) & racing editor Guardian https://t.co/QroS9s9GMS

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Royal Ascot 2025 day one updates: news, previews and more – live

1 week ago | msn.com | Tony Paley

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Royal Ascot 2025 day one updates: news, previews and more - live

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Tony Paley |Greg Wood

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleGood morning from Ascot on day one of the 2025 Royal meeting … and what a morning! The sun is out, the temperatures are climbing past 20C already and the best news of all is that the fine weather is looking set for the week. Royal Ascot’s immutability is one of the wonders of the modern age.
The Derby 2025: horse racing - live

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Tony Paley |with Greg Wood

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleGood morning from an overcast but, for the moment at least, dry Epsom racecourse, where after three months of scarcely any rainfall at all, as much as 10mm is forecast to arrive before the Derby’s scheduled off-time at 3.30pm.
Horse racing: Oaks day opens Derby festival, Epsom ground news and more - live

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Tony Paley |with Greg Wood |Greg Wood

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleGood morning from Epsom racecourse on this first day of this year’s Derby meeting, where racing professionals and a scattering of early punters alike are staring anxiously at the skies and wondering how the ground will be riding for both Friday’s Oaks and the Derby itself in a little over 24 hours’ time.
York’s Dante meeting: all the latest horse racing news on day one - live

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Greg Wood |Tony Paley

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureMusidora Stakes the feature event on York's opening dayGood afternoon from the Knavesmire on the first day of the 2025 season at York racecourse, when the Musidora Stakes (3.45) – the last of the traditional trials for next month’s Oaks at Epsom – is the feature race on the card. Three of the six fillies – Smoken, Whirl and Go Go Boots – have an entry in the Classic, and all have something to recommend them.
Horse racing: Mullins and Skelton battle for title on final day of jumps season - live

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Tony Paley

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleAnd they’re off. Welcome to the new regular Guardian racing blog. We’ll be here on every big racing Saturday throughout the year (including “Super Saturday” in July when the blogger on the day will have to be stretchered off before the last race) and what a way to start with the trainers’ title duel set to be decided on the final day of jumps racing of the season.
Grand National glory for Nick Rockett as he leads home a Willie Mullins 1-2-3

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Tony Paley

Nick Rockett led home an extraordinary one-two-three for trainer Willie Mullins at 33-1 in Saturday’s Grand National. Ridden by the trainer’s son, Patrick, Nick Rockett beats last year’s winner I Am Maximus with Grangeclare West third. The winning horse is still registered in the ownership of Stewart and Sadie Andrew, and though Sadie died of cancer in December 2022, she had been the one who wanted a horse in training with Willie Mullins as they were from the same part of Ireland.
Grand National glory for Nick Rockett as he leads home a Willie Mullins 1-2-3

2 months ago | aol.co.uk | Tony Paley

Nick Rockett led home an extraordinary one-two-three for trainer Willie Mullins at 33-1 in Saturday’s Grand National. Ridden by the trainer’s son, Patrick, Nick Rockett beats last year’s winner I Am Maximus with Grangeclare West third. The winning horse is still registered in the ownership of Stewart and Sadie Andrew, and though Sadie died of cancer in December 2022, she had been the one who wanted a horse in training with Willie Mullins as they were from the same part of Ireland.
Grand National 2025: updates from Aintree – live

2 months ago | msn.com | Tony Paley |Simon Burnton

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Grand National 2025: updates from Aintree - live

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Tony Paley |Simon Burnton |Greg Wood

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleHello from Aintree, where the sun is shining and a 55,000 capacity crowd is assembling for the 2025 Grand National – the race that still stops the nation (or perhaps as much as a third of it, at any rate).