Baaeed has had the misfortune throughout his career to suffer constant comparisons to Juddmonte’s superstar of yesteryear, Frankel. Like the former champion Baaeed arrived at York in his four year old season an unbeaten winner of multiple Group 1 races over a mile. At the Knavesmire both faced the step… Read More »
Frankie Dettori had come in for some strong criticism following his ride on popular stayer Stradivarius in the Ascot Gold Cup but within 24 hours he’d transformed himself, as only Dettori can, into the hero of the hour by guiding favourite INSPIRAL to victory in the feature race on Friday’s… Read More »
It was ten years since the last Australian horse won at Royal Ascot, and what a day that was with the mighty Black Caviar holding on in dramatic fashion for a thrilling and historic win. But for many today was well worth waiting for because Nature Strip never looked like… Read More »
Aidan O’Brien’s record-breaking 41st British classic winner was also one of his closest finishes as his filly Tuesday edged out the favourite, the John and Thady Gosden trained Emily Upjohn. The race, won by a short head at the finish, may have been decided right at the start as Emily… Read More »
The first classic of the season in the UK saw the relentless Charlie Appleby bandwagon continue to roll as he saddled the first two home, Coroebus and Native Trail, in the Newmarket showpiece, the QIPCO 2,000 Guineas. Appleby had hinted last autumn that he thought Coroebus might be even better… Read More »
The Group 2 Jockey Club Stakes had a one-horse look to it with hot favourite Yibir bringing strong credentials on the back of a Breeders Cup Turf win last term along with a runners-up spot on his 2022 debut in the Sheema Classic. But races aren’t run on the form… Read More »
There is something about the Grand National at Aintree, Liverpool, that seems to mystically produce a heart-warming story year after year. Last year we had the win of Rachael Blackmore, the first lady jockey to win the race and hers was just the latest in a very long line of… Read More »
Melbourne Cup winning trainer Joseph O’Brien recently announced his intention to concentrate on his flat racing string but he showed he is still able to turn them out at the top level over the jumps, sending Fakir D’Oudairies to win his second consecutive Marsh Chase at Aintree’s Grand National meeting…. Read More »
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 »
