#UK RACING: Pyledriver wins Coronation Cup on Epsom Derby weekend first day

Pyledriver battled back in the closing stages to deny Al Aasy and lift the Coral Coronation Cup at Epsom for his first Group One triumph. Al Aasy headed Martin Dwyer’s mount in the final furlong, but Pyledriver (8-1) rallied in determined fashion on the rail to snatch the verdict by a neck for the relatively new training partnership […]

#US RACING: Jockey Irad Ortiz. Jr sent to hospital after fall at Belmont Park

Jockey Irad Ortiz. Jr. was sent to a local hospital Thursday after he was unseated in the stretch of the fifth race at Belmont Park and clipped by a trailing horse. Ortiz was on the lead aboard first-time starter Equal Pay for trainer Chad Brown when the 3-year-old Quality Road filly appeared to take a […]

#UK RACING - Epsom Derby runners, preview, odds

KINGSTON, Jamaica - This year's renewal of the world famous Epsom Derby will be run this Saturday, at Epsom Downs in England. QUICKGALLOP.COM presents for its readers the runners and their odds. There were no shock absentees from Monday’s five-day declarations for the Derby and the scratching of various less well-fancied colts has led to […]