France horse racing news

France Galop has met with government authorities to try to plan for a return to racing behind closed doors.

Three race meetings in France are to take place behind closed doors in a response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe-winning jockey Pierre-Charles Boudot has strongly denied allegations of rape made against him.

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The 2018 Melbourne Cup runner-up Marmelo has been retired to stand at stud in France, a fortnight after his controversial scratching from the 2019 race.

Waldgeist, winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, has been retired and will stand at Ballylinch Stud in Ireland.

Enable will start from barrier nine in her bid for an unprecedented third win in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

Star Catcher has capped a lucrative weekend for jockey Frankie Dettori and trainer John Gosden in the Group One Prix Vermeille at ParisLongchamp.

Enable has won her 10th Group One race in the Yorkshire Oaks at York, her final appearance on English soil.

A field of four will run in the Yorkshire Oaks headed by Enable who is aiming for a sixth consecutive Group One win.

Marmelo has won the Prix Kergolay at Deauville and is set to return to Australia to try to go one better than his second in...

Coronet has given John Gosden and Frankie Dettori yet another Group One winner in the Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville.

Frankie Dettori has steered Advertise to a third top-level success in the Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville.

Hughie Morrison has been left disappointed as Marmelo narrowly failed to win back-to-back editions of the Prix Maurice de Nieuil at ParisLongchamp.

Melbourne Cup runner-up Marmelo has finished unplaced in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud won by the John Gosden-trained Coronet.

Frankie Dettori has won the Commonwealth Cup on Advertise while French horse Watch Me has taken the other G1 on the Royal Ascot program, the...

ONE of France’s premier racecourses Maisons-Laffitte is to “halt horse-racing activities” from the end of next year, France Galop has announced. The course, close to...

Godolphin trainer Saeed bin Suroor has continued his winning month with two-year-old Royal Meeting successful in the G1 Criterium International at Chantilly.

Harry Herbert has resigned as Sheikh Joaan Al Thani's racing advisor with the Qatari operation increasing its presence in France.