9 h. ago USA’s Summer Britcher boosts Olympic luge bid with another World Cup gold

Britcher rallies in Sigulda for second win of seasonAmerican leads World Cup singles despite missing raceUSA Luge star can capture historic overall crownUSA Luge’s Summer Britcher is flying into the Olympics.Britcher got her second women’s singles luge win of the season on Sunday, moving her atop the World Cup standings and further cementing her status as a medal contender for the Milan Cortina Olympics next month. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Australian teenage sensation Indra Brown continues stunning rise with World Cup gold

15-year-old closes on Winter Olympics spot in freeski halfpipeValentino Guseli wins snowboard halfpipe event in CalgaryFifteen-year-old rookie Indra Brown and comeback kid Valentino Guseli have given Australia a timely golden double with impressive World Cup victories as the Winter Olympics loom large.Brown maintained her dramatic progression in her first three World Cup career starts, following a bronze medal at Secret Garden in China and silver at Copper Mountain in the US, as Saturday’s freeski halfpipe victory in Calgary, Canada, made her the youngest Australian to win a World Cup event. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago No Drama This End brings back glory days for Nicholls – and it’s Cheltenham next

Hot favourite makes all in Grade One Challow HurdleMinella Yoga doubles up on sparkling day for trainerDays like these were once almost a weekly experience for Paul Nicholls, as he strung together one title-winning season after another, so the 14-time champion will have taken particular pleasure from his double here on Monday as No Drama This End, in the Grade One Challow Hurdle, and Minella Yoga both emerged as contenders for the Cheltenham festival in March.The Challow has often been an early proving ground for future stars over fences, and No Drama This End, Nicholls’s seventh winner of the race, joined former champions from the yard including Denman, the 2008 Gold Cup winner, and Bravemansgame, the 2022 King George VI Chase winner, on the roll of honour. Sent off at 4-9, the five-year-old made all the running under Harry Cobden and needed little encouragement to maintain a one-and-a-quarter length lead to the line. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Affordale Fury holds off Cheltenham Gold Cup and Aintree winners to take Savills Chase

Seven-year-old makes Leopardstown breakthroughGalopin Des Champs and I Am Maximus beatenThe two most recent winners of the Cheltenham Gold Cup were among the 11 runners for the Grade One Savills Chase at Leopardstown on Sunday but neither could match the strength and resilience of a resurgent Affordale Fury, as Noel Meade’s seven-year-old made his breakthrough at the highest level after an injury-plagued career to date.Affordale Fury was the 150-1 runner-up in the three-mile Albert Bartlett Novice Hurdle at Cheltenham in March 2023, but his career since has included breaks of 438 and 241 days and Sunday’s race was just his fifth chase start outside novice company. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Bowen and Curtis bag famous home win in Welsh National with Haiti Couleurs

Winner carries huge weight to success at ChepstowCheltenham Gold Cup on horizon after brave victoryIt is seven years and counting since Native River became the last horse trained in Britain to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup, but the beleaguered home team has conceivably emerged from the first two days of the Christmas programme with not one, but two realistic contenders for next year’s race, after Haiti Couleurs put up a magnificent performance to win the Welsh Grand National here under 11st 13lb on Saturday.Or, as Haiti Couleurs’ connections might prefer it, England has a chance with Friday’s King George winner, The Jukebox Man, and Wales has a shout with Haiti Couleurs, who is trained by Rebecca Curtis in Pembrokeshire and ridden by Sean Bowen, the champion jockey, who was born just down the road from her yard. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago England break Ashes drought in Australia with victory in Boxing Day Test – live reaction

England chase down 175-run target for four-wicket win Over-by-over updates from Melbourne Cricket GroundTravis Head walks out to bat with his opening partner Scott Boland. Imagine if you had predicted, on the first morning at Perth, that Australia would use four openers in the first four Tests – and that Usman Khawaja would not be among them.“Dear Rob,” writes Robert Wilson. “I’ve got skin in the game as I am trying to arrange an all-night viewing sesh for day (night) three in an unexpectedly swish Aussie backpacker hostel near Stalingrad (in Paris). Logistically, it’s quite a lot of ducks to get in a row and punters fagging all the way in from below-zero Versailles or somesuch only to catch four overs while nursing a lukewarm Newky Brown might have views. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Harry Redknapp says he’s ‘in Champions League’ after Jukebox’s King George hit

Former football manager’s horse wins Kempton thrillerCheltenham Gold Cup up next for the gutsy winner“Today, we’ve gone into the Champions League,” Harry Redknapp, the owner of The Jukebox Man, said after his horse had fought back to win an extraordinary three-way photo-finish in the King George VI Chase here on Friday. “We got into the Premier League, which was fantastic, but today we were taking on the Real Madrids and Barcelonas and he proved he can compete with them and win against them, which was an amazing feeling.”It was, in truth, simply an amazing race from start to finish, with one of the most enthralling passages of action from the home turn to the line that anyone here could recall in a Grade One steeplechase. Kempton is unloved by the Jockey Club, its owners, which has signed over an option to developers that would see it bulldozed for housing, but its speed-favouring, right-handed track is something special and unique in British jumping and here it produced an all-time...

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9 d. ago Harry Redknapp’s The Jukebox Man wins epic King George VI Chase: racing from Kempton – as it happened

The former football manager’s horse is now likely to be heading for the Cheltenham Gold Cup after his thrilling winFormby Hurdle (Aintree 1.05pm)Newsflash: Low sun means that the officials are omitting some hurdles. Three have been taken out so there will be just five obstacles to jump. This is never very satisfactory. Ans they’re off Starmount jumps the first in the lead with hot favourite Mydaddypaddy in second and now they have nearly a mile to run before they jump another flight annoyingly Mydaddypaddy jumped the second well and again the third he looks a class act so now just one hurdle to jump and now a very long run home Starmount leads with Mydaddypaddy challenging the new leader Idaho Sun he comes to take it up but can’t get past Idaho Sun and Mydaddypaddy is beaten in a big shock at Aintree!Formby Hurdle (Aintree 1.05pm) bettingMydaddypaddy – 4/7Idaho Sun – 7/2Storming George – 10/1Starmount – 12/1Glance At Midnight – 25/1The Last Cloud – 40/1Diamond Hunter – NRWahraan - N...

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1 week ago Alan Soutar credited for stunning rise of Dutch darts kid at Ally Pally

Dutch star produced blistering numbers as he raced to victory after a torturous moment

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1 week ago Think you’re a racing superfan? Then prove it with Sun Racing’s epic Christmas quiz

ENJOY some racing fun and be top of the form at Christmas with our super Sun Racing quiz. How much do you know? And how much have you forgotten in the last year? Can you remember who won last season's Cheltenham Gold Cup and did you collect on the Grand National winner? Here, Jack Keene...

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2 w. ago Investigators release additional video of possible Brown gunman as search continues

Authorities are asking the public for any footage they might have of the gunman who fatally shot two students and wounded nine others at Brown University

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2 w. ago Search for the Brown University shooter continues as questions swirl about campus security

Authorities have released three new videos of a man they believe is responsible for the shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine

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2 w. ago New footage of Brown University shooting suspect released by FBI as manhunt continues

Authorities detained another suspect who was cleared of suspicion after authorities conducted a ballistics test

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2 w. ago Brown University suspect seen in new police footage as manhunt continues

Police have released new footage of a suspect in the Brown University shooting, as a manhunt for the alleged gunman continues.

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2 w. ago ‘It’s terrifying, but it’s not surprising’: a Brown University student on surviving her second school shooting

Mia Tretta has advocated for gun-violence prevention since being shot as a high school student in California in 2019As federal and local authorities in Providence, Rhode Island, continue searching for the person who killed two Brown University students and injured nine others on Saturday, campus members and the broader community are grieving and dealing with a shattered sense of safety.But for 21-year-old Brown University junior Mia Tretta, it’s familiar territory. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘It’s terrifying, but not surprising’: a Brown University student on surviving her second school shooting

Mia Tretta has advocated for gun-violence prevention since being shot as a high school student in California in 2019As federal and local authorities in Providence, Rhode Island, continue searching for the person who killed two Brown University students and injured nine others on Saturday, campus members and the broader community are grieving and dealing with a shattered sense of safety.But for 21-year-old Brown University junior Mia Tretta, it’s familiar territory. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Video of new person of interest in Brown University shooting released

Police says individual is likely to be armed and dangerous after shooter killed two students on campus SaturdayBrown University shooting – latest updatesThe authorities released video footage on Monday afternoon of a fresh person of interest wanted in the mass shooting at Brown University at the weekend, as a huge manhunt continued.A short video clip taken from a surveillance camera shows, from across a street, a person in dark clothing walking briskly on the sidewalk. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Two victims named in Brown University shooting as police continue search for killer

Two students, Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, identified in shooting after authorities released sole suspect Brown University shooting – latest updatesTwo students who died in Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University were being remembered Monday – as a manhunt for their killer continued following the release by authorities in Rhode Island of the sole person of interest detained in the case.Ella Cook, a second-year student from Alabama, was “an incredible, grounded, faithful, bright light”, according to the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham, which paid tribute to her at a service on Sunday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Brown University shooting person of interest released as lawmakers admit ‘we have a murderer out there’ after 2 killed

THE person of interest identified in connection with a shooting at a university that left two dead has been released without charge.  Cops continue to hunt for the gunman accused of opening fire at Brown University in Rhode Island on Saturday. A man was taken into custody on Sunday, but has since been released. The...

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2 w. ago Brown University shooting latest: ‘Person of interest’ released and manhunt continues for suspect in attack that killed 2

Police release ‘person of interest’ more than 24 hours after mass shooting at Rhode Island Ivy League school with suspect on the loose

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