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23/09/2025

Six of the best by the late Wootton Bassett - the star sire's highest-rated progeny in Europe based on their peak Timeform figure 📊

14/09/2025

"His Timeform rating of 135 which ranks him just a pound behind the two best sprinters this century, Battaash and Black Caviar"

John Ingles traces champion Hong Kong sprinter Ka Ying Rising's journey to becoming Timeform's best horse in the world 🇭🇰

John Ingles traces champion Hong Kong sprinter Ka Ying Rising's journey to becoming Timeform's best horse in the world.

13/09/2025

🏆 Yet more 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 glory!

That's now NINE St Leger victories for the master of Ballydoyle, as Aidan O'Brien wins the 2025 renewal at Doncaster with Scandinavia.

12/09/2025

🔵 Since Royal Ascot 2024, Oisin Murphy has teamed up with trainer Saeed Bin Suroor 19 times.

🤝 They've won 12 of those 19 races.

This time with Sword Maker bolting up at Doncaster.

10/09/2025

🌏🇭🇰 Hong Kong star 𝗞𝗔 𝗬𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚 has been rated the best horse in the World at present, with a Timeform rating of 𝟭𝟯𝟱.

📊 The superstar sprinter sits 3lb clear at the top of Timeform's Global Rankings.

Ka Ying Rising, winner of 14 of his 16 starts and unbeaten since January 2024, has a world-leading Timeform rating of 135 and dazzled when giving away lumps of weight on his return from a break at Sha Tin on Sunday.

He's already rated higher than Silent Witness (129) and Sacred Kingdom (131) were during their Hong Kong heydays and is in the same bracket as Battaash and Black Caviar.

Timeform's Flat editor David Johnson said: "Hong Kong has been home to some world-class sprinters down the years, with the likes of Silent Witness and Sacred Kingdom both rated top-class by Timeform at their peak, but in Ka Ying Rising it looks to have produced one even better than that pair.

"Ka Ying Rising is rated 135 on the back of his comfortable win in the Chairman’s Prize in April where he comfortably beat Satono Reve by much further than Lazzat was able to do at Royal Ascot, and he cemented that with a most impressive win under a big weight in handicap company at the weekend.

"A rating of 135 is behind only Battaash and Black Caviar among the sprinters this century, that pair rated 136, and their position at the top is surely under threat with Ka Ying Rising’s victories only looking to scratch the surface of his ability at present.

"International competition has been an important feature of Flat racing for the best part of 40 years now and Ka Ying Rising heading to Australia to take on the best sprinters from Down Under in the Everest, the most valuable race on turf, is a prospect that racing fans from all areas of the globe can look forward to."

Ka Ying Rising is 3 lb clear at the head of Timeform's global rankings from Via Sistina, now trained in Australia by Chris Waller having previously been with George Boughey in Britain, though her peak figure of 132 derives from her performance in the 2024 Cox Plate and she's not been near that level this year.

Ka Ying Rising is rated 5 lb higher than the top horses in Europe, Field of Gold (130p) and Ombudsman (130), and a remarkable 11 lb higher than the top sprinter Lazzat, who earned his figure of 124 when beating Satono Reve by half a length in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot but has been below that level twice since.

07/09/2025

🤝 A cross-industry project, Timeform has partnered with the racing industry to launch 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱, making horse racing accessible to new fans.

🆕 You can pick up a Quickcard completely FREE at York this afternoon, as the SkyBet Sunday Series reaches its finale.

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Timeform has partnered with the racing industry with QuickCard, making horse racing accessible to new fans.

03/09/2025

💬 "A very good rating, and a very good Timefigure - 107p, which would be the highest 2-year-old debutant in Europe this season, by atleast 3lb."

⏱️ Timeform's Kieran Clark reports in on an impressive 2-y-o debutant winner, before previewing Haydock's Betfair Sprint Cup on Saturday.

🎙️ Nick Luck Daily Podcast

27/08/2025

📊 Here's how the leading two-year-olds in training measure up on Timeform ratings.

Coventry Stakes winner GSTAAD (113p) sits top, despite his unbeaten record coming to an end in a narrow defeat to VENETIAN SUN (110p) in the Prix Morny.

Karl Burke's Group 1 winner ranks as the highest-rated 2-y-o filly currently, following that Deauville success.

26/08/2025

🗣️ "There's every chance he could end up the highest rated in the World by the end of the year..."

Tune in as Kieran Clark provides the latest Timeform perspective, including thoughts on Sovereignty's (129) impressive victory in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga.

🎙️ Nick Luck Daily Podcast

23/08/2025

🏆 The SkyBet City Of York Stakes will be run as a Group 1 for the first time this afternoon at York!

📊 Here's how the field measure up on our weight-adjusted ratings, with Rosallion 3lb clear of his rivals, as he bids for a fourth success at the highest level.

22/08/2025

💬 "Timeform is every horse, every race, every day. You're still tapping into that expertise, it's just a simplified version."

🆕 The 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱, as part of an industry collaboration, can be picked up completely FREE on course at York, on Saturday on Sky Bet Ebor Day.

22/08/2025

💬 "Keep an eye out for ________, there's definitely a big handicap in him this season."

⏱️ Timeform's Kieran Clark reflects on day two at the Sky Bet Ebor Festival at York.