Moulin De La Croix was the benefactor of a walkover at Worcester as trainers registered their dissatisfaction with prizemoney by boycotting a novices’ hurdle. Twelve horses were declared for the event but as the race fell below the level set out in the Horsemen’s Group tariff by STG900 ($A1,379), 11… Read More »
Britain’s wet weather will play an important role in Australian mare Ortensia’s challenge in the July Cup at Newmarket. While trainer Paul Messara is committed to running Ortensia, the same is not so for connections of some of her major rivals. Messara said the Newmarket track was slow on Wednesday… Read More »
The globe-trotting Red Cadeaux heads a field of nine declared for the Princess of Wales’s Stakes at Newmarket on Thursday. The Ed Dunlop-trained six-year-old, placed in both the Melbourne Cup and Hong Kong Vase at the end of last year, again has the Australian race as his main objective. However,… Read More »
The Dermot Weld-trained Speaking Of Which could go to America in search of Group One glory after being denied a run in the Irish Derby. The Secretariat Stakes over a mile and a quarter (2000m) at Arlington in August is the race being considered for the colt. A dual Melbourne… Read More »
Chantal Sutherland has become the first female jockey to win the Hollywood Gold Cup, steering Game On Dude to victory in the 73-year-old race. Game On Dude beat Richard’s Kid by 1-1/2 lengths to give Sutherland and Game On Dude victory in race they lost by a nose a year… Read More »
Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I’ll Have Another has paraded between races at Hollywood Park, giving fans at his home track a chance to cheer him one last time before he heads off to stud in Japan. His bid to become racing’s first Triple Crown winner in 34 years ended… Read More »
Nathaniel has laid to rest any lingering ideas he is not a legitimate championship performer by making a scintillating return to the track in the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown. Never quite given due credit for winning what was widely considered an unsatisfactory King George last summer, the colt had suffered… Read More »
Luca Cumani could retrace the steps he first made almost 30 years ago and send Afsare across the Atlantic for next month’s Arlington Million after the gelding ended a losing streak at Sandown. Cumani has long been a pioneer of racing overseas and the victory of Tolomeo in the third… Read More »
Jockey Frankie Dettori will carry the Olympic flame when it reaches Ascot next Tuesday. Dettori will be passed the torch as it makes its way from Ascot High Street and into the racecourse for a circuit of the parade ring. “It is an honour and a privilege to be invited… Read More »
Champion Galloper So You Think has been ruled out of Saturday nights Coral Eclipse stakes in England. Aiden O’Brien’s wife Anne-Marie posted via twitter that the champ is lame and will not run on Saturday night. “So You Think was found to be lame In his stable a short time… Read More »
Camelot has been given an entry for the Great Voltigeur Stakes at York on August 22. It was widely believed the 2000 Guineas and dual Derby winner would head for the St Leger without having another run, but trainer Aidan O’Brien has given him the option of the premier trial… Read More »
Melbourne Cup winner Dunaden remains among the 17 entries for the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on July 21 along with last year’s winner Nathaniel. Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Danedream, disappointing at her most recent start, is also still a possible along with Deep… Read More »
Moonlight Cloud, who ran Black Caviar to a head in the Diamond Jubilee at Royal Ascot, has been ruled out of the July Cup by trainer Freddy Head. The French filly was the second favourite for the July Cup at Newmarket on Saturday week which will also feature Australian mare… Read More »
Champion Frankel is fine fettle ahead of his quest to stretch his 100 per cent record to 12 at Goodwood next month. The Sussex Stakes on August 1 will, as expected, be the next port of call for the four-year-old who was last seen delivering an 11-length demolition in the… Read More »
Camelot will have either one more outing or a racecourse gallop before his bid for Triple Crown glory in the St Leger at Doncaster in September. The 2000 Guineas and Epsom Derby winner kept his unbeaten record intact with a determined victory in Saturday’s Irish Derby and is now set… Read More »
Odds-on favourite Camelot won the Irish Derby on Saturday to hand trainer Aidan O’Brien his seventh successive victory, and 10th overall, in the Classic. The 1-5 favourite was always cantering under the trainer’s son Joseph, but when he was let down over a furlong out he jinked left and Johnny… Read More »
Seamie Heffernan is thrilled to have kept the ride on Aidan O’Brien’s Epsom Oaks heroine Was as she takes on her elders for the first time in Sunday’s Barclays Bank Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh. The daughter of Galileo was a surprise 20-1 winner of the mile-and-a-half Epsom… Read More »
Ortensia is recovering well after pulling up sore from her Royal Ascot assignment and will press on to next month’s July Cup. Trainer Paul Messara returned to Australia from England on Sunday after overseeing the mare’s preparation for the Group One King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot in which she… Read More »
Camelot will face just six rivals in his bid to become the 16th horse to complete the Epsom and Irish Derby double at the Curragh on Saturday night. Aidan O’Brien’s unbeaten colt, who will be ridden by the trainer’s son, Joseph, will be joined by Ballydoyle duo Astrology (Seamie Heffernan)… Read More »
Call To Battle has been ruled out of the Irish Derby with a foot abscess. The King’s Best colt, third to Mickdaam in the Chester Vase on his latest start, would have been an outsider behind hot favourite Camelot, the 2000 Guineas and English Derby hero. However, Call To Battle’s… Read More »
