Australia, Cirrus Des Aigles and Taghrooda feature among a stellar list of 37 entries for the Champion Stakes at Ascot in October. With a total prize fund of STG1.3 million ($A2.37 million), the prestigious event is the richest mile-and-a quarter race in Europe. Cirrus Des Aigles is set for his… Read More »
Disgraced jockey Fergal Lynch has been given a one-year probationary licence to ride in Britain. Lynch, 36, admitted to stopping a horse from winning at Ripon in August 2004, supplying inside information about six of his rides, and associating with the disqualified Miles Rodgers. The former champion apprentice was fined… Read More »
Peter Chapple-Hyam has expressed his sadness after hearing of the death of Rodrigo De Triano, describing him as the best horse he has trained. The Japanese Racing Association confirmed the five-time Group One winner, raced by the late Robert Sangster, died of pneumonia, aged 25. Rodrigo De Triano stood at… Read More »
Treve has enjoyed a light work-out for the first time on turf since her bruising Royal Ascot experience. Trainer Criquette Head-Maarek was satisfied to get last season’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner back on a grass surface as the filly continues her rehabilitation from pulled muscles sustained during the… Read More »
Trainer Markus Klug believes the Grosser Preis von Baden at Baden-Baden will be the perfect Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe prep race for Sea The Moon. The September 7 event is a Group One race and was used by Danedream to perfect her challenge for the Arc in 2011. Sea… Read More »
Paul Bittar is to leave his role as chief executive of the British Horseracing Authority when his three-year term ends in the new year. The Australian was appointed in September 2011, having previously worked for Racing Victoria and New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing. Bittar will be involved in the appointment of… Read More »
Intrinsic, who missed the cut for the Wokingham at Royal Ascot, put the record straight when he sprinted to victory in the Stewards’ Cup at Goodwood. Punters threw their support behind Muthmir, backing him into 5-2 favourite in the 24-horse field, but the Robert Cowell-trained Intrinsic (6-1) got the job… Read More »
Pether’s Moon has put himself in line for a trip to Australia with victory in the Glorious Stakes at Goodwood. Another Melbourne spring contender, Cafe Society, finished third ahead of his transfer to the Gai Waterhouse stable. A handicap winner at Goodwood 12 months ago, the Richard Hannon-trained Pether’s Moon… Read More »
Kingman followed up his Royal Ascot heroics with a devastating change of gear to land the Group One Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood. The showpiece of the famed racing festival in Sussex had once again been billed as ‘the duel on the Downs’ with the odds-on favourite in a virtual… Read More »
Britain’s Professional Jockeys Association has expressed concerns over the judicial processes of the Emirates Racing Authority for its handling of the Pat Cosgrave affair. A British Horseracing Authority disciplinary panel decided not to reciprocate Cosgrave’s four-month suspension for improper riding in the Group One Jebel Hatta. His mount, Anaerobio, drifted… Read More »
Bayern has won the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park to earn an automatic berth in the Breeders’ Cup. He dominated Sunday’s 1800m race for three-year-olds, beating Albano by 7-1/4 lengths and extending trainer Bob Baffert’s record to a record seven wins. “I didn’t think he’d do anything as… Read More »
Taghrooda has dramatically firmed to win the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe following her stunning victory in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. The filly took on the older horses in the Group One race and beat Mukhadram by three lengths to become the first filly since Pawneese… Read More »
Taghrooda pipped the much-fancied Telescope in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday to claim a thrilling and historic victory. The win followed Taghrooda’s success in the Epsom Oaks and made her only the second filly to complete the Oaks-King George double in the same… Read More »
Estimate, one of the horses at the centre of the morphine controversy in England, is among 15 entries for Thursday’s Goodwood Gold Cup. Trainer Sir Michael Stoute is still allowed to make entries for the five-year-old, who is owned by the Queen, despite her failing a drugs test. She tested… Read More »
Tony Carroll is the latest trainer to have a horse test positive to morphine in England bringing the number to seven including a second horse from Sir Michael Stoute’s stable. It was confirmed earlier in the week the Stoute-trained Estimate, who is owned by The Queen, had tested positive after… Read More »
Eagle Top is not a certain starter in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot with trainer John Gosden monitoring the weather. The three-year-old was a brilliant winner of the King Edward VII Stakes at the Royal meeting last month and was a late entry for Saturday’s… Read More »
Eve Johnson Houghton is the latest trainer to come forward and reveal one of her horses has tested positive for morphine in a case which has involved The Queen. The Oxfordshire trainer has confirmed three-year-old gelding Charlie Wells failed a drugs test after winning at Chepstow on June 23. She… Read More »
A horse-feed firm has launched an investigation into the failed drugs test of Estimate, the Gold Cup winner owned by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. The winner of the prestigious Royal Ascot stayers’ crown in 2013 was one of five horses that tested positive for the banned substance morphine. The Queen’s… Read More »
A horse owned by the Queen which won one of England’s most prestigious races has failed a drugs test, Buckingham Palace says. Estimate, which lifted the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot in 2013 and came second in this year’s edition, has tested positive for morphine, a banned substance. A statement… Read More »
The Queen’s Group One winner Estimate has been named as one of five horses in Britain to test positive for morphine. The winner of the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot in 2013 and second in the same race this year, Estimate is trained by Sir Michael Stoute. The British Horseracing… Read More »
