Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Synchronised is becoming increasingly likely to take his chance in the Grand National at Aintree on Saturday week. Trainer Jonjo O’Neill is waiting for owner J P McManus to decide whether to let the nine-year-old be among his team for the world’s most famous steeplechase. But… Read More »
Outsider Hero of Order sprung an upset in Sunday’s $US1 million ($A960,846) Grade Two Louisiana Derby at the Fair Grounds and earned a piece of American racing history. Until he won at 109-1 no horse with odds of 99-1 or higher had ever finished better than third in the race…. Read More »
Monterosso led home a Godolphin one-two in the Dubai World Cup at Meydan on Saturday when he swept past his stablemate, Capponi, to win the world’s richest race. The five-year-old, ridden by Mickael Barzalona, advanced from a prominent position to win Saturday’s US10 million ($A9.6 million) race in which he… Read More »
Opinion Poll won the Dubai Gold Cup, which was rerun on Saturday after a horse owned by the stables of Dubai ruler Sheik Mohammed was injured in the first race in the United Arab Emirates. The winner also came from Mohammed’s Godolphin stables, giving him a third victory on the… Read More »
Monterosso won the world’s richest horse race, the Dubai World Cup, on Saturday with former Australian champion and hot favourite So You Think a disappointing fourth. The result also gave victory to the brainchild behind the race, Monterosso’s owner Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum’s Godolphin Operation. The winner – third last year… Read More »
The Dubai Gold Cup race was halted on Saturday after a horse owned by the stables of Dubai ruler Sheik Mohammed went down injured. Godolphin’s Fox Hunt was 300 metres into the 3200-metre race when it tumbled to the ground, throwing jockey Silvestre De Sousa. The horse briefly tried to… Read More »
Daddy Long Legs has won the $US2 million ($A1.93 million) UAE Derby, holding off a late charge from Yang Tse Kiang to give trainer Aidan O’Brien at least one victory on Saturday. Australian entry Helmet, trained by Peter Snowden, came out of the gates first and held the lead over… Read More »
Grand National pre-post favourite Prince De Beauchene has been ruled out of the Aintree spectacular after suffering an injury. The Willie Mullins-trained nine-year-old shot to the head of the betting for the world’s most famous steeplechase following a brilliant performance in the Bobbyjo Chase at Fairyhouse in February. But following… Read More »
Official Rating Horse Weight Age Trainer 126 SO YOU THINK (NZ) 57.0 5 yrs A O’Brien 122 GAME ON DUDE (USA) 57.0 5 yrs B Baffert 122 CAPPONI (IRE) 57.0 5 yrs M Al Zarooni 121 MONTEROSSO (GB) 57.0 5 yrs M Al Zarooni 121 TRANSCEND (JPN) 57.0 6 yrs… Read More »
Official Rating Horse Weight Age Trainer 128 CIRRUS DES AIGLES (FR) 57.0 6 yrs C Barande Barbe 123 ST NICHOLAS ABBEY (IRE) 57.0 5 yrs A O’Brien 119 SHIMRAAN (FR) 57.0 5 yrs M Al Zarooni 119 GREEN DESTINY (IRE) 57.0 5 yrs H Brown 118 BOLD SILVANO (SAF) 57.0… Read More »
Official Rating Horse Weight Age Trainer 122 PLANTEUR (IRE) 57.0 5 yrs M Botti 122 AMBITIOUS DRAGON (NZ) 57.0 5 yrs AT Millard 121 CITYSCAPE (GB) 57.0 6 yrs R Charlton 120 CALIFORNIA MEMORY (USA) 57.0 6 yrs T Cruz 120 PRESVIS (GB) 57.0 8 yrs L Cumani 118 RIO… Read More »
Official Rating Horse Weight Age Trainer 125 ROCKET MAN (AUS) 57.0 6 yrs P Shaw 118 LUCKY NINE (IRE) 57.0 5 yrs C Fownes 117 THE FACTOR (USA) 57.0 4 yrs B Baffert 117 KRYPTON FACTOR (GB) 57.0 4 yrs F Nass 115 GIANT RYAN (USA) 57.0 6 yrs B… Read More »
Official Rating Horse Weight Age Trainer 117 JOY AND FUN (NZ) 57.0 8 yrs D Cruz 117 REGALLY READY (USA) 57.0 5 yrs S Asmussen 115 PROHIBIT (GB) 57.0 7 yrs R Cowell 115 SOLE POWER (GB) 57.0 5 yrs E Lynam 115 BETTER BE THE ONE (AUS) 57.0 5… Read More »
Official Rating Horse Weight Age Trainer 119 HELMET (AUS) 59.5 3 yrs P Snowden 108 BOBY DI JOB (BRZ) 59.5 3 yrs M de Kock 107 BALADA SALE (ARG) 57.5 3 yrs P Bary 117 DADDY LONG LEGS (USA) 55.0 3 yrs A O’Brien 115 WROTE (IRE) 55.0 3 yrs… Read More »
Official Rating Horse Weight Age Trainer 116 OPINION POLL (IRE) 57.0 6 yrs M Al Zarooni 115 MIKHAIL GLINKA (IRE) 57.0 5 yrs H Brown 115 FOX HUNT (IRE) 57.0 5 yrs M Al Zarooni 115 KASBAH BLISS (FR) 57.0 10 yrs F Doumen 113 JOSHUA TREE (IRE) 57.0 5… Read More »
Official Rating Horse Weight Age Trainer 117 AFRICAN STORY (GB) 57.0 5 yrs S bin Suroor 116 DO IT ALL (USA) 57.0 5 yrs S bin Suroor 116 VISCOUNT NELSON (USA) 57.0 5 yrs M de Kock 115 SHAMALGAN (FR) 57.0 5 yrs X Nakkachdji 113 WESTERN ARISTOCRAT (USA) 57.0… Read More »
Official Rating Horse Weight Age Trainer 123 NIESHAN (FR) 57.0 6 yrs E Lemartinel 122 SERAPHIN DU PAON (FR) 57.0 6 yrs E Oertel 118 TIMADIT AL MELS (FR) 57.0 5 yrs S Rajhi 115 TM FRED TEXAS (US) 57.0 5 yrs R Martino 112 SAHIB DU CLOS (FR) 57.0… Read More »
$10 million Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline (UAE-I, Race 9, 1:40 p.m. EDT), 3 & up, 10 furlongs (Tapeta). Males carry 126 pounds, females 121 pounds. PP. Horse, Jockey, Trainer 1. Master of Hounds (KY), C. Soumillon, M. de Kock 2. Eishin Flash (Jpn), C. Lemaire, H. Fujiwara… Read More »
Frankel could make his first public reappearance in a racecourse gallop at Newbury next month. Trainer Henry Cecil is to ask officials at the Berkshire track for permission to give his stable superstar a spin at their two-day meeting on April 20 and 21. Cecil has already pencilled in the… Read More »
Meydan. What an amazing, incredible place. What an equine paradise. I’m currently looking out over Meydan from the media centre, which is located on the fifth floor right on the finish line, and I’m still amazed by the sight before me. The last two days Dubai has been shrouded in… Read More »
