{"id":59170,"date":"2026-05-12T04:03:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/today-on-sky-sports-racing-bath-hereford-and-lingfield-racing-news\/12\/05\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:03:49","slug":"today-on-sky-sports-racing-bath-hereford-and-lingfield-racing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/today-on-sky-sports-racing-bath-hereford-and-lingfield-racing-news\/12\/05\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Today on Sky Sports Racing: Bath, Hereford and Lingfield | Racing News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>We have a busy day\u2019s racing on Tuesday with action from Bath, Hereford and Lingfield, live on Sky Sports Racing&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>4.23 Bath &#8211; Galaxy Wonder bids to complete the hat-trick<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A field of five go to post in the penultimate race at Bath on Tuesday for the <em>Free Tips Daily On attheraces.com<\/em> Handicap over a mile and a quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Carroll saddles <strong>Galaxy Wonder<\/strong> who seeks to land the hat-trick here having scored at Wolverhampton in March and followed that up when odds-on at Bath last month. The four-year-old now steps back up in trip and arrives here on a career-high mark.<\/p>\n<p>The chief threat to <strong>Galaxy Wonder<\/strong>&#8216;s hat-trick bid may come in the form of Denis Coakley&#8217;s <strong>Party Island<\/strong> who scored on his return to the turf 15 days ago over this course and distance, winning very comfortably under usual jockey George Bass.<\/p>\n<p>Heather Main&#8217;s <strong>Prodigal Son<\/strong> returned from a 140-day break with a game success at Bath two weeks ago in first-time blinkers and Rossa Ryan&#8217;s mount now steps up further in trip here.<\/p>\n<p>Course winner <strong>Premier<\/strong> for Warren Greatrex returns to the flat for the first time since September having had a spin over hurdles this winter while Richard Hughes&#8217; <strong>Criminal<\/strong> seeks a first career win in first time cheekpieces and makes up this field of five.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>5.15 Lingfield &#8211; In-form Arc Zoosve seeks the four-timer<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The opening race at Lingfield on Tuesday sees six contenders contest the <em>Free Tips Daily On attheraces.com Apprentice Handicap<\/em> over two miles.<\/p>\n<p>Neil King&#8217;s in-form five-year-old, <strong>Arc Zoosve<\/strong>, will be looking to land the four-timer here having completed a hat-trick ten days ago at Goodwood. Jack Callan takes the ride for the first time, and his mount will have to defy a career-high mark to continue his good form.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Jones&#8217; <strong>An Bradan Feasa<\/strong> hasn&#8217;t been seen since November last year but was successful on his last start, scoring by a length over today&#8217;s trip and the six-year-old will be looking to follow that up to land a seventh career win here.<\/p>\n<p>The grey, <strong>The Truant<\/strong>, is yet to win on the all-weather from six starts but has put in a number of solid efforts, including when fourth at Southwell last month. James Glennon now returns to the saddle for the nine-year-old&#8217;s fifth start for Michael Attwater&#8217;s stable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mio Amico<\/strong>, <strong>Bulldog Spirit<\/strong> and top-weight <strong>Polling Day<\/strong> make up this field of six.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>5.50 Lingfield &#8211; Unbeaten Always Happy pursues another win<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>An intriguing max field of 12 go to post for the second race at Lingfield on Tuesday in the <em>Sky Sports Racing Virgin 519 Novice Stakes<\/em> over a mile.<\/p>\n<p>Coolmore&#8217;s unbeaten filly <strong>Always Happy<\/strong> will look to build on her debut success at Southwell in March when scoring at odds-on. Roger Varian&#8217;s three-year-old has an entry in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot, a race she is 66\/1 for and Ryan Moore takes the ride for the first time here at Lingfield.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Balding saddles newcomer <strong>Turret<\/strong> who cost \u20ac580,000 as a yearling. The three-year-old is a son of Kingman and out of an unraced dam who&#8217;s a sister to the top-flight performer Hydrangea.<\/p>\n<p>William Haggas&#8217; <strong>York Tower<\/strong> finished second on both starts at two and now steps up in trip as he looks to go one better and land the spoils here.<\/p>\n<p>Another contender to note is Ed Walker&#8217;s Royal runner, <strong>Tropical Sands<\/strong>, for the King and Queen, by Too Darn Hot and related to a number of winners and makes her debut here.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Best of the rest<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>2.05 Chantilly<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Francqueville<\/strong>, a half-brother to Bucanero Fuerte, seeks first win at third attempt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.08 Hereford<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Delpotro<\/strong> seeks fifth career win with Sean Bowen booked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.38 Hereford<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Hidden Fortune<\/strong> debuts over hurdles for the Skeltons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.50 Bath<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Hibernate<\/strong> bids to land back-to-back wins for Ed Dunlop and Rossa Ryan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7.20 Lingfield<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Buy The Dip<\/strong> and <strong>Studious<\/strong> seek successive wins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8.20 Lingfield<\/strong> &#8211; Twilight Moon bids to complete a course &amp; distance hat-trick.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/racing\/news\/12040\/13542466\/today-on-sky-sports-racing-bath-hereford-and-lingfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a busy day&rsquo;s racing on Tuesday with action from Bath, Hereford and Lingfield, live on Sky Sports Racing&hellip; 4.23 Bath<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/today-on-sky-sports-racing-bath-hereford-and-lingfield-racing-news\/12\/05\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[1929,7923,1288,33,71,69,70,68],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/04\/1600x900\/skysports-bath-horse-racing_7233009.jpg?20260428112858","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59172,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59170\/revisions\/59172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}