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 »
A racehorse owned by Queen Elizabeth II that won the prestigious Gold Cup at Royal Ascot last year has tested positive for the banned substance morphine. Buckingham Palace says that early indications suggest that the five-year-old filly, Estimate, consumed the substance as a result of contaminated feed. John Warren, the… Read More »
Champion jumps jockey Tony McCoy has set a new mark for the number of winners after riding It’s A Gimme to victory at Market Rasen. McCoy joined his old boss, trainer Martin Pipe, on 4191 on Wednesday and posted the record three days later. The 19-times champion jockey cut a… Read More »
Royal Ascot winner Bracelet has fought off her Aidan O’Brien-trained stable companion Tapestry and British raider Volume to clinch the Irish Oaks at the Curragh. There was a controversial prelude to Saturday’s Group One feature when Epsom Oaks third Volume, trained by Luca Cumani, had to be re-plated after being… Read More »
South African jockey S’manga Khumalo has been announced as one of the international jockeys taking part in the Shergar Cup at Ascot next month. The 28-year-old, who is nicknamed ‘Bling’ after he dyed his hair blond, last year became the first black South African to ride the winner of the… Read More »
Taghrooda is close to disputing second-favouritism behind Telescope for the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot after her unexpected withdrawal from this weekend’s Irish Oaks. The John Gosden-trained filly was odds-on to make it a Classic double after her victory in the English Oaks, but owner Sheikh… Read More »
Champion jumps jockey Tony McCoy has equalled trainer Martin Pipe’s career tally of 4191 winners with a typically powerful display aboard On The Record at Uttoxeter. McCoy drove the favourite over the line after a tough tussle with Bangkok Pete. The 25-1 outsider pushed On the Record all the way… Read More »
French Derby winner The Grey Gatsby has been well beaten in the Grand Prix de Paris held on a rain-sodden Longchamp. The Kevin Ryan-trained colt finished sixth as Andre Fabre’s Gallante produced a shock victory in Sunday’s 2400m Group One. Favourite Prince Gibraltar, an unlucky third in the French Derby,… Read More »
Slade Power has set up a tantalising clash with Lankan Rupee by adding the July Cup to his Group One resume. The Eddie Lynam-trained horse will take on Lankan Rupee in the VRC Sprint at Flemington in November before he begins stud duties with Darley. “I’ve always spoke of him… Read More »
The Grey Gatsby faces the stiffest test of his stamina to date when he lines up in Sunday’s Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp. Kevin Ryan’s charge shone over 10-1/2 furlongs (2100m) in the Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly last month, backing up his previous mile-and-a-quarter (2000m) verdict in… Read More »
Ryan Moore’s position as British racing’s supreme Flat jockey has been reinforced with a treble at Newmarket including the Group One Falmouth Stakes on Integral. The mare made her top-level breakthrough by beating Rizeena who Moore had ridden to win the Coronation Stakes. Last year’s 1000 Guineas winner Sky Lantern… Read More »
British trainer John Gosden’s brilliant mare The Fugue has run her last race due to injury. The five-year-old broke the track record in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot only last month, beating last year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Magician and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe heroine Treve… Read More »
An all-the-way win in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Newmarket has set Cavalryman up for a possible return to Australia for the Melbourne Cup. The veteran Godolphin stayer, who finished 12th at Flemington in 2012, held on to beat Hillstar by a neck in Thursday’s Group Two Prince of… Read More »
Brown Panther is scheduled to go to France on Sunday in search of the second Group Two success of his career. Connections of the stayer, eighth in last year’s Melbourne Cup, intend to take the six-year-old to Longchamp for the Prix Maurice de Nieuil over a mile and three-quarters (2800m)…. Read More »
Globe-trotting stayer Simenon could make his first appearance over hurdles for 18 months at Tipperary on Saturday. Trainer Willie Mullins decided last season to return the gelding to the Flat after he flopped in a couple of outings in the winter of 2012. It proved an inspired move, as Simenon… Read More »
