Brian O'Connor

Brian O'Connor

Racing Correspondent

Brian O'Connor is the racing correspondent of The Irish Times. He also writes the Tipping Point column.

Major Irish hopes in Hardwicke Stakes that looks Group One in all but name

Ryan Moore opts for Japan’s Satono Reve in battle of top international sprinters at Royal Ascot

Precise overcomes poor start to finish a Coronation winner at Royal Ascot

Aidan O’Brien reaches six winners for Royal Ascot week as Causeway lands King Edward VII Stakes

Ryan Moore hoping to get it Precisely right in Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot

Commonwealth Cup will test theories about Albert Einstein’s relative greatness

Scandinavia wins Gold Cup thriller to earn Aidan O’Brien his 100th Royal Ascot winner

Ryan Moore and Scandinavia deny last year’s winner Trawlerman in epic renewal of famous race

Scandinavia aiming to become Aidan O’Brien’s 10th Ascot Gold Cup success

St Leger winner joined in marathon test by other Irish hopes Al Riffa and Carmers

Ombudsman looks a world beater with decisive Prince of Wales’s Stakes victory at Royal Ascot

Aidan O’Brien reaches Royal Ascot winner No. 99 through Victorious

Ombudsman has ideal scenario for Ascot clash with Daryz and Minnie Hauk

Arc one-two take on reigning champion in featured Prince Of Wales’s Stakes

Christophe Soumillon handed eight-day ban by Royal Ascot stewards

Top jockey judged to have rode Puerto Rico to assist stable companion Gstaad in St James’s Palace Stakes

Aidan O’Brien denied by Bow Echo, but reaches 98 Royal Ascot winners

Mission Central completes Royal Ascot Group One haul for Irish trainer in big sprint

Aidan O’Brien closing in on remarkable century of Royal Ascot winners

Gstaad trying to bridge gap on Bow Echo in clash of the 2,000 Guineas winners

Ascot Stakes could be a very Irish contest as Joseph O’Brien has seven runners

Francis-Henri Graffard aiming for rare French success in top sprint with Rayevka

Diamond Necklace bidding to give Aidan O’Brien seven classics in six weeks

Ryan Moore has a chance to complete career set of French, Irish and English Classics in €1m Prix de Diane

Jump racing open to criticism if ground conditions allowed to get too fast

Perfect watering balance is impossible, but erring on the side of too much is prudent

Pierre-Charles Boudot set for imminent race-riding return after exoneration of rape charges

Billy Lee, meanwhile, hoping to take a step closer to elusive first Irish jockeys’ championship

Diamond Necklace aiming to keep up Ballydoyle’s Classic spree

French 1,000 Guineas winner odds-on to follow up in Sunday’s €1m Prix de Diane at Chantilly

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