It was a case of bring out the old, bring in the new at York on the third day of the Ebor meeting as the veteran superstar stayer Stradivarius took the Lonsdale Cup in a pulsating finish while the three year old filly Winter Power stormed to success in the… Read More »
The Darley Yorkshire Oaks is usually won by a smart filly but this year it was won by a filly that is fast becoming a superstar. The Aidan O’Brien trained Snowfall was well enough thought of as a two year old to have connections aiming her at Group 1 prizes… Read More »
Mishriff added to his reputation as the world’s most versatile racehorse at York when running away with the 2021 renewal of the Juddmonte International. The all-aged Group 1 race lost some of its lustre when the ante-post favourite St Mark’s Bailica was withdrawn but that horse’s connections provided an able… Read More »
Covid may have put many travel plans on hold but did not deter Francois Rohaut from brining his speedy three year old filly Suesa over to Goodwood for the King George Qatar Stakes and she duly repaid her trainer’s boldness by comfortably winning the feature race on day 4 of… Read More »
Emotions were high in the Goodwood winner’s enclosure after the Nassau Stakes as connections greeted the winner Lady Bowthorpe back after a thrilling victory in the feature race of day three. For owner Emma Banks, who acts as agent to such stars as Katy Perry, Muse, Kylie Minogue and the… Read More »
Emotions were high in the Goodwood winner’s enclosure after the Nassau Stakes as connections greeted the winner Lady Bowthorpe back after a thrilling victory in the feature race of day three. For owner Emma Banks, who acts as agent to such stars as Katy Perry, Muse, Kylie Minogue and the… Read More »
Trainer Andrew Balding’s season was already shaping up to be one of his best but Alcohol Free took it to yet another level when winning Goodwood’s Sussex Stakes from 2,000 Guineas winner Poetic Flare. It was a third Group One win for Alcohol Free as she’d won the Cheveley Park… Read More »
After a thunderstorm brought a deluge of rain (16mm of it) to Goodwood overnight the going was changed to ‘Heavy, Soft in places, and that was enough to deter John and Thady Gosden from running their four-time Goodwood Cup winner Stradivarius in a bid for a historic fifth win in… Read More »
It had been 20 years since the very recently deceased super-stallion Galileo completed the Derby/King George double so it was fitting, with the memory of his passing still fresh, that his grandson Adayar became the first horse since then to achieve the same feat. Adayar’s Derby was run on good… Read More »
The final day of Royal Ascot saw the racecourse welcome back the Queen as she attended her first race meeting in almost two years. She nearly had a great start to her day as her horse Reach For The Moon was narrowly beaten in the opening Chesham Stakes. It was… Read More »
All eyes at Royal Ascot on Thursday were on Stradivarius as the John Gosden trained horse attempted to match Yeats’s record of four Gold Cups but he could only finish fourth behind Mark Johnston’s Subjectivist. Procession in the Gold Cup, but it's Subjectivist rather than Stradivarius who is awesome in… Read More »
She’d been off the racecourse for 300 days but that lack of action didn’t stop Aidan O’Brien’s star filly Love in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes as she battled on through the last furlong to beat last year’s Breeders cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Audarya. In addition to her… Read More »
The 2021 Royal Ascot meeting benefitted from a relaxation in COVID rules which mean that 12,000 people could attend. They were treated to a business-as-usual start to the meeting as the ever-popular Frankie Dettori landed the Queen Anne Stakes, the opening race, on Palace Pier. As they approached the final… Read More »
Newmarket’s ‘Gold’ autumn season stepped up a gear in style on Saturday with a card containing two Group One two year old races, a Group Two race for the same age group and one of the season’s premier Heritage Handicaps the bet365 Cambridgeshire. All three Group races went abroad, Jessica… Read More »
Sir Michael Stoute’s Crystal Ocean was ranked the world’s best horse on official ratings prior to today’s Juddmonte International at York but he had to settle for second place in the end when narrowly denied in a thrilling fashion by the Aidan O’Brien trained three year old Japan. A strong… Read More »
It was a case of Allez France at Ascot today as Watch Me, trained by Francis Graffard and ridden by Pierre-Charles Boudot, upset the hot favourite Hermosa to land the Group One feature race of the day. Watch Me had been considered an unlucky loser in the Poule d’Essai Du… Read More »
It’s nearly 23 years since Frankie Dettori went through the card at Ascot and recorded his famous ‘Magnificent Seven’ but bookies still haven’t forgotten the bashing they took that day and they were trembling once again as Dettori took the opening four races on Gold Cup day, including the big… Read More »
Sir Michael Stoute has long been revered as a trainer who has no equal at improving older horses. It seems the trainer is himself improving with age and, having ended a long drought in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot last year with Poet’s Word, he didn’t have… Read More »
Three Group One races on the first day of Royal Ascot started the meeting off in style and it was mixed fortunes for backers with Lord Glitters, an outsider, taking the Queen Anne Stakes to get the meeting off to a great start for the bookies. But the punters hit… Read More »
Only three trainers could boast seven Derby winners on their CVs prior to 2019 and all of them hailed from a by-gone age. The three, Robert Robson, John Porter and Fred Darling were joined on that illustrious roll by Aidan O’Brien today as his Anthony Van Dyck, ridden by long… Read More »
