If you aren’t going to Royal Ascot in person, you can enjoy all the action on Channel 4 from the comfort of your sofa

The five-day meeting at Royal Ascot is a festival of racing and fashion with outfits being planned weeks in advance

Shire horse race at Lingfield Park

Feathers fly in UK’s first shire horse race

Watch a video of the UK’s first ever shire horse race to promote the endanged breed

Prince Khalid Abdullah with Frankel and Tom Queally

Juddmonte racing empire to scale back

Prince Khalid Abdulla has announced he is to scale back his Juddmonte bloodstock operation

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The Pony Club introduces racing certificate

The Pony Club is launching a new certificate to encourage young riders into racing

Following the death of Sir Henry Cecil, Horse & Hound looks back in pictures at some of the recent highlights of his distinguished career

Ten-times champion racehorse trainer Sir Henry Cecil has died aged 70

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Trainer Gerard Butler faces steroid charges

The racehorse trainer could face a ban from the sport for treating horses with the drug Sungate, which contains a banned anabolic steroid

Endurance Horse Race in Jordan's Wadi Rum

Sheikh bans steroids in UAE horse sports

Sheikh Mohammed, the ruler of Dubai, has cracked down on steroids in all horse sports in the UAE by criminalising their import, sale, purchase and use — in the wake of the scandals around doping in his racing and endurance interests

Investec Derby at Epsom: in pictures

See if our Epsom photographers snapped you during the Investec Derby Meeting in our online gallery of racing and racegoers