Freddie Head is considering a quick return to action for Moonlight Cloud after her “awesome” display in the Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville on Sunday. After narrowly failing to catch Black Caviar at Ascot, the four-year-old filly blitzed her rivals over six-and-a-half furlongs. She may now return to the… Read More »
Cheveley Park Stud have bought a majority share in the July Cup winner Mayson. The colt provided Richard Fahey and jockey Paul Hanagan with their first domestic Group One winner at Newmarket and will remain in the trainer’s care, as well as in the colours of David Armstrong, for the… Read More »
The Dermot Weld-trained Sapphire has taken another step towards the Melbourne Cup with an exhilarating display in the Irish Stallion Farms Stakes at Galway. Weld, who has won the Melbourne Cup twice, said the mare would run next in the Irish St Leger before a trip to Australia was considered…. Read More »
The Fugue became the sixth Group One winner for trainer John Gosden this season when she took out the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood. For the first time this year, the glory was not shared with William Buick as he had been instructed to ride the stable’s 7-4 favourite and eventual… Read More »
Moonlight Cloud will bid for back-to-back wins in the Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville on Sunday. Freddie Head’s talented filly beat Society Rock in tremendous style 12 months ago, but the Chantilly handler is concerned about soft ground for his stable star. With Goldikova now retired, Head is looking… Read More »
Luca Cumani’s Melbourne Cup team is taking shape with Quest For Peace qualifying via his win in the Group Three Glorious Stakes at Goodwood. Quest For Peace benefited from a well-judged front-running ride from Kieren Fallon to emerge to give Cumani his seventh win in the race. “It’s extraordinary. I… Read More »
Jumps jockey Ruby Walsh is set for a spell on the sidelines after a fall from the well-fancied Drive Time in the Galway Hurdle. Walsh was partnering the Willie Mullins-trained favourite in the prestigious handicap until he came to grief at one of the hurdles passing the stands with a… Read More »
Irish trainer John Oxx rectified one anomaly from a distinguished career when Saddler’s Rock won the Goodwood Cup. As Galway always coincides with Goodwood week, it would be understandable for Oxx to be pre-occupied with domestic affairs and the Group Two success was the first time he had ever made… Read More »
Excelebration could go to France in search of his second Group One win. Four times second to the mighty Frankel, the Aidan O’Brien-trained Excelebration will be entered for the Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville on Sunday week. “Excelebration has two more pieces of work to do. We’re looking at… Read More »
Frankel is reported to have come out of his Sussex Stakes romp with flying colours and is firmly on course for the Juddmonte International at York later this month. The unbeaten superstar took his winning run to 12 at Goodwood as he repeated his victory of last year in the… Read More »
On the day Team GB grabbed its first gold medals at London 2012, Olympic Glory proved a perfectly-named winner of the Vintage Stakes at Goodwood. When leading owner Julie Wood reserved four Olympic-related names three years ago, it was a pipedream that one of them would win during the Games,… Read More »
Superlatives continue to flow for Frankel following the champion’s win in the Sussex Stakes. An end to an unbeaten streak of 11 was considered so unlikely Frankel was the 1-20 favourite, even if the presence of Farhh in the four-strong field was supposed to provide him with his biggest test… Read More »
England hasn’t seen the best of Ortensia but trainer Paul Messara hopes that can change on Friday after a few days of clearing weather. The Australian mare hurt herself in the King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot and wasn’t suited by the extremely wet conditions in the July Cup, running… Read More »
Frankel’s younger brother Noble Mission and the admirable mare Chachamaidee combined to give Sir Henry Cecil a Group race double on the opening afternoon of the Goodwood carnival. All that was missing was the master trainer himself, who has been susceptible to other illness due to his ongoing treatment for… Read More »
Dermot Weld has continued his domination of the Galway festival with three winners on the first day as he bids to take training honours for the 26th time. Jane Mangan made history on one of Weld’s winners, Midnight Music, when she became the first female rider to win the 70,000… Read More »
Ongoing cancer treatment will keep Sir Henry Cecil at home when Frankel takes on just three rivals in the Sussex Stakes at at Goodwood on Wednesday. The world’s highest-rated horse will be defending his title in the Group One mile (1600m) as he bids to extend his unbeaten record to… Read More »
Paynter has followed his runner-up finish in the Belmont Stakes with a dominant victory in the Haskell Invitational, another breakout performance for the colt who has languished as Bodemeister’s lesser-known stablemate. In the hand of Rafael Bejarano, Paynter stormed into the lead entering the turn and pulled away to win… Read More »
Five St Leger entries will go on trial for Doncaster in the Gordon Stakes at Goodwood on Tuesday. They are headed by Michelangelo, who is second-favourite behind Camelot in some markets for the final Classic of the season and represents four-time winning trainer John Gosden. Michelangelo looked strong in a… Read More »
Elusive Kate has given jockey William Buick and trainer John Gosden yet another Group One win in a golden summer with victory in the Prix Rothschild at Deauville. Narrowly beaten on her belated reappearance in the Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket, Elusive Kate already had positive experiences of the Normandy course… Read More »
Lady Rothschild will let trainer John Gosden decide whether her star colt Nathaniel will lock horns with Frankel in the Juddmonte International at York. The pair met on their respective debuts in what must be one of the hottest juvenile maidens of all time back in August 2010, with Frankel… Read More »
