There were happy scenes at Haydock Park as the racecourse celebrated the 70th anniversary of Britain’s greatest jockey Lester Piggott’s very first winner. It was on 18th August 1948 that Piggott, then only twelve years old, rode The Chase, trained by his father Keith, to win a selling handicap at… Read More »
The question of just who is Europe’s champion three year old filly was settled in no uncertain terms on Friday at Royal Ascot when the winners of the English, French and Irish 1,000 Guineas met in the Coronation Stakes. Alpha Centauri, the winner in Ireland, was favoured in the betting… Read More »
History was made at Royal Ascot on Wednesday as trainer Sir Michael Stoute won his 76th race at the Royal meeting, beating Sir Henry Cecil’s record, as Poet’s Word won the day’s feature race, the Prince Of Wales Stakes. Before the race all the hype surrounded the hot favourite Cracksman… Read More »
Godolphin have had multiple Group 1 and classic winners around the globe but until today they’d never witnessed those distinctive blue silks cross the line in front of the field in the Derby. Trainer Charlie Appleby put that right for them as the 2,000 Guineas third Masar overturned the Newmarket… Read More »
Trainer Aidan O’Brien was in the United States preparing Mendelssohn for his ill-fated bid for glory in the Kentucky Derby when his nineteen year old son Donnacha won the 2,000 Guineas on Saxon Warrior. However, he didn’t have to wait long to see him win a classic as the young… Read More »
The bookmakers had the Coronation Cup at Epsom as a one horse race but no one had told Silvestre De Souza and he almost created a mighty upset on board the outsider Salouen, only yielding late on to the Frankie Dettori ridden hot favourite Cracksman. Dettori never looked particularly happy… Read More »
One of last season’s sprint stars Battaash, who waltzed away with the Group 1 Prix De L’Abbaye to round off a successful three year old season, reappeared in Haydock’s Temple Stakes as a prelude to a crack at Royal Ascot’s Kings Stand Stakes. Trainer Charlie Hills appeared nervous beforehand and… Read More »
It is almost half a century since the great Nijinksy became the last horse to win the English triple crown. That horse was trained by Vincent O’Brien and was sent from the Ballydoyle stable in County Tipperary and O’Brien’s namesake Aidan O’Brien may well attempt to emulate that feat with… Read More »
It was a record breaking day at Doncaster as Aidan O’Brien’s Saxon Warrior took the Racing Post Trophy, the final Group 1 race of the UK season, and gave the trainer a world record-breaking 26th win at the very highest level this year. O’Brien thus surpassed Bobby Frankel’s record of… Read More »
Champions Day at Ascot seldom disappoints and on the day that trainer Aidan O’Brien equalled the world record for Group/Grade 1 victories in a single year when Hydrangea won the Fillies and Mares race, he somehow found himself eclipsed in the headlines by his arch rival John Gosden and crowd… Read More »
The world’s oldest classic lived up to its illustrious history at Doncaster today as a classy field was led home in a pulsating renewal by the Irish Derby winner Capri. Capri started 3/1 favourite on the back of his Derby success at the Curragh, he’d beaten Cracksman there and that… Read More »
A large crowd turned up at York today with one main aim, to see the superstar filly Enable extend her winning sequence and add another Group One to her growing tally. And the John Gosden trained daughter of Nathaniel didn’t disappoint, winning by five lengths from stable companion Coronet. With… Read More »
It was another 1-2 for super-sire Galileo in today’s Group One Juddmonte International at York with the Sir Michael Stoute trained four year old Ulysses getting the better of Aidan O’Brien’s dual 2,000 Guineas winner Churchill by two lengths. Barney Roy was a further neck back in third. In the… Read More »
John Gosden’s star three year old filly Enable won Ascot’s mid-summer showpiece, the Group One King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, in fine style today. Racing prominently throughout, she took up the running just over two furlongs out and from that point the result never looked in doubt and… Read More »
