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British Racing joins forces with the Department for Business and Trade at the 2023 Breeders’ Cup World Championships this autumn to deliver the Government’s first trade mission centred around the horseracing industry, promoting and enabling business in the USA market for a select number of UK-based companies within the racing and sports economy sector.

SHAQUILLE (GB) backed up an extraordinary success in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot last month with a defiant win in Newmarket Racecourses’ midsummer headline sprint, the Group 1 Pertemps Network July Cup, on a wind swept Saturday afternoon.

Littleton Stud proprietor Jeff Smith was presented with the prestigious Andrew Devonshire Bronze for outstanding achievement and contribution to British thoroughbred breeding at the TBA’s Flat Breeders’ Awards Evening on Wednesday, 12 July. The event, which included the presentation of 14 awards, took place in the grounds of Chippenham Park near Newmarket in front of a crowd of more than 160 guests.

GOOD GUESS (GB) defied long odds at Deauville Racecourse on Sunday afternoon when skipping clear of rivals in facile fashion to land the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat under Stephane Pasquier for owner Hisaaki Saito and trainer Fabrice Chappet. The three-year-old son of KODIAC (GB), who won a Group 3 earlier this term, was bred by the Thompson family’s Cheveley Park Stud just outside of Newmarket.

Great British Racing International (GBRI) and Ascot Racecourse have launched the third episode in their series titled An American Dream: The Return to Royal Ascot.

The video series continues to track US syndicate manager Harlan Malter’s journey as he plots a return to Royal Ascot with a runner sired by his 2018 Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes contender-turned-stallion, BUCCHERO.

The world-renowned summer HIT sale, the Tattersalls July Sale, takes place from Tuesday 11th July to Friday 14th July at Park Paddocks, Newmarket. The sale will run simultaneously with the July Festival (Thursday - Saturday) at Newmarket Racecourses.

VIA SISTINA’s career soared to new heights on Saturday afternoon, when the five-year-old mare won her first Group 1 in the Pretty Polly Stakes at The Curragh for owner Rebecca Hillen and bloodstock agent husband Stephen, trainer George Boughey and jockey Jamie Spencer. She was bred by Colin and Melba Bryce's Laundry Cottage Stud in Hertfordshire.

SHAQUILLE (GB) produced a spectacular performance under a confident ride by Oisin Murphy in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup on Friday afternoon, despite rearing in the gates at the starts and giving his rivals a head start of several lengths.

At the half-way stage of Royal Ascot 2023 on Thursday afternoon, COURAGE MON AMI (GB) brought up a hat-trick of Group 1 victories at the meeting for world-leading sire FRANKEL (GB), landing a thrilling renewal of the Group 1 Gold Cup under jockey Frankie Dettori.

Alice Haynes, who took out a training license in February 2021 and is already nearing 100 career winners, heads into Royal Ascot 2023 with high hopes that she can register a maiden success at Britain’s flagship festival.