5 d. ago Person rescued after taking unwell at popular Ayrshire hill race

A member of the public took unwell during the annual Goatfell Hill Race on Saturday and was rescued by the Arran Mountain Rescue Team.

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6 d. ago Viewers stunned as jockey grabs hold of two horses to save himself in middle of race

The incident happened during a race in France on Saturday morning

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8 d. ago Our expert has a horse racing tip in all 44 races on Saturday

Daily Star Chief Tipster Jason Heavey has singled out Rosallion to do the business in the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury while a horse who has never won before could land the big handicap

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2 w. ago Racing tips from seven Saturday meetings including Ascot nap

Daily Star Chief Tipster Jason Heavey, who tipped East India Dock to win on Friday, has been poring over the formbook to bring you a selection from all 48 races across the UK on Saturday

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2 w. ago Oscar Piastri wins F1 Miami Grand Prix to stretch lead in title race

Lando Norris second as McLaren dominateGeorge Russell third, Max Verstappen fourthDemonstrating with emphatic effect that he must be considered now the front runner for the championship, Oscar Piastri’s drive from fourth on the grid to victory at the Miami Grand Prix was the stuff that defines the battling Aussie spirit. Taking the win for McLaren with a piece of relentlessly controlled dominance and in so doing determinedly maintaining his place out front in a tight title fight, Piastri laid down a marker in Florida that he will be exceptionally hard to beat this season.Disappointed on missing out on a win in the sprint race on Saturday, Piastri and his team executed with perfection to secure a remarkable win from fourth place, beating his teammate Lando Norris into second place, the British driver’s hopes of victory extinguished within moments of the lights going out when he went wheel to wheel with Max Verstappen, went off and fell to sixth. Verstappen could manage only fourth fr...

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2 w. ago Bordeaux set up Champions Cup final with Northampton after beating Toulouse

Louis Bielle-Biarrey stars with two tries in 35-18 winOwen Farrell hurt in Racing 92’s Challenge Cup defeatLouis Bielle-Biarrey’s stunning first try of two highlighted Bordeaux Bègles’ 35-18 win over Top 14 rivals Toulouse as they set up a Champions Cup final meeting with Northampton. Saints stunned Leinster in Saturday’s first semi-final.Bordeaux had raced into a 10-0 lead with a try from Pete Samu and a Matthieu Jalibert penalty, but Toulouse edged 11-10 up with a pair of Juan Cruz Mallia penalties either side of Dimitri Delibes’s try. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Horse racing abandoned as jockeys head for cover amid total chaos

Racing was abandoned at Auteuil on Saturday afternoon due to weather becoming increasingly severe, with the final race on the card being stopped due to a hail storm

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3 w. ago Daddy cool: Verstappen surges to Miami Grand Prix pole with Norris in second

World champion bounces back after sprint race penaltyVerstappen says becoming a father has had no impactMax Verstappen cannot be faulted for giving his all. Certainly he could do no more than the complete commitment he demonstrated in delivering a remarkable lap for pole position at the Miami Grand Prix. He was equally pleased in the process to be able to confirm that becoming a new father had had no impact on his pace, but the world champion remained unequivocal that he still expected more from his Red Bull team after they were found wanting at his expense in Saturday’s sprint race.Verstappen claimed pole with an immense lap at the Hard Rock stadium, in what was an enormously competitive session. Anything short of perfection would have been costly and he was on rails, just beating the McLaren of Lando Norris into second and the Mercedes of Kimi Antonelli into a superb third place by the tiniest of margins, six hundredths of a second. McLaren’s Oscar Piastri was fourth and Mercedes’...

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3 w. ago Kimi Antonelli: charting the F1 debutant’s rise through the ranks

Italian youngster sprung surprise of the season by taking pole for the Miami GP sprint, the youngest F1 driver to do soKimi Antonelli sprung the surprise of the season so far by taking pole position for Saturday’s sprint race at the Miami Grand Prix, the youngest F1 driver to do so.The Italian teenager, just six rounds into his rookie campaign as a replacement for Lewis Hamilton, was born five years after the double world champion Fernando Alonso became the youngest F1 driver to take a pole position. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Bullish Lando Norris qualifies in third place for F1 Miami sprint race

Norris ‘more confident than I have ever been’Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli takes debut sprint poleLando Norris wants only to focus on his racing as he attempts to re-establish his challenge for the Formula One world championship this season. The McLaren driver insists he has never been so confident in his own ability before this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix, where he qualified in third place for Saturday’s sprint race and Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli took his debut F1 sprint pole.The British driver opened the season strongly with a win in Australia and led the championship until the last round in Saudi Arabia when he was overtaken by his teammate Oscar Piastri, who has now won three of the opening five meetings. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Lando Norris bullish over title bid and qualifies third for F1 Miami sprint race

Norris ‘more confident than I have ever been’Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli takes debut sprint poleLando Norris wants only to focus on his racing as he attempts to re-establish his challenge for the Formula One world championship this season. The McLaren driver insists he has never been so confident in his own ability before this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix, where he qualified in third place for Saturday’s sprint race and Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli took his debut F1 sprint pole.The British driver opened the season strongly with a win in Australia and led the championship until the last round in Saudi Arabia when he was overtaken by his teammate Oscar Piastri, who has now won three of the opening five meetings. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Champion jockey Oisin Murphy is all smiles as he returns to racing just hours after mysterious car crash riddle

It's believed that the crash occurred shortly after Murphy, 29, raced at Leicester on Saturday afternoon - where he won three times in the seven-race event.

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