Nine races will be run and won at Ascot on Saturday night, headlined of course by Enable taking on three Aidan O’Brien runners in a very intriguing edition of the King George Vl & Queen Elizabeth (2400m).
Jockey and horse will be chasing a slice of history when Frankie Dettori partners Enable in the prestigious King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot. Enable will be bidding to become the first horse to win the Group One race three times, while Dettori can join Lester Piggot… Read More »
The nightmare of Red Verdon’s two failed Melbourne Cup campaigns is all but forgotten as the English stayer rides a wave of resurgent northern hemisphere form. Red Verdon contested the Caulfield Cup in 2018 and 2019, finishing unplaced both times. He was robbed of a chance to show his true… Read More »
Benbatl, runner-up in the last of champion mare Winx’s four WS Cox Plate wins, is expected to return to action later in the UK summer. The six-year-old has demonstrated his versatility late in life by proving just as effective on dirt when winning a Group Two at Meydan before finishing… Read More »
Ed Vaughan, who helped prepare the 2013 Melbourne Cup winner Fiorente for an Australian career, will quit training later in the season. The UK trainer cited economic concerns as the driving force behind the decision to relinquish his licence. “I haven’t just woken up and decided to do this. It’s… Read More »
Plans for owners to be allowed back on track in Ireland from next week have been put on hold following the Irish government’s announcement it is delaying the next phase of its lockdown-lifting roadmap. Horse Racing Ireland had intended to allow two owners per horse at tracks from Monday, with… Read More »
Del Mar has cancelled racing for the weekend after 15 jockeys tested positive for COVID-19. All the track’s riders and personnel who work in the jockeys’ room were tested by San Diego County public health officials at the request of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. Of the 15 positive tests,… Read More »
John Moore drew a blank during the final day of the Hong Kong racing season as the legendary trainer prepares to continue his career in his native Australia. Moore had five runners for his Hong Kong swan song, but all finished unplaced. He is set to train in partnership with… Read More »
Ricky Yui, best known as the trainer of former star sprinter Sacred Kingdom, has claimed his first premiership title in Hong Kong. Yui secured champion trainer honours at the final meeting of the local season at Happy Valley on Wednesday and while thrilled to achieve a career goal, he took… Read More »
Two-time Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert has been suspended for 15 days by Oaklawn Park stewards and two of his horses were disqualified in Arkansas after testing positive for a banned substance. The stewards said in a ruling that the Hall of Fame trainer’s suspension will run from August 1… Read More »
Nine races will be run and won at Happy Valley on Wednesday night, with this meeting concluding the Hong Kong racing season. Race One: 9 Great Smart Race Two: 4 Overscubscribed Race Three: 5 Amazing Race Four: 2 Party Together Race Five: 6 Kinda Cool Race Six: 9 Loriz Race… Read More »
Cieren Fallon’s breakthrough Group One winner provided the opening chapter on a weekend which put jockeys young and old in the spotlight. Fallon, son of six-time champion Kieren, outdid his famous father by winning one of the few top-level races which evaded him in his remarkable career – as Roger… Read More »
Australian Zac Purton has wrapped up his fourth Hong Kong jockeys’ premiership and third in succession. There is one meeting remaining in the 2019-20 season in Hong Kong but Purton has an unassailable lead at the top of the premiership standings, leading Joao Moreira by seven wins. Moreira will sit… Read More »
Godolphin colt Pinatubo got back on the winning trail with a stylish victory in the Group One Prix Jean Prat at Deauville. Charlie Appleby’s stable star was crowned last season’s champion two-year-old after an unbeaten six-race campaign – and was unsurprisingly all the rage for last month’s 2000 Guineas. Pinatubo… Read More »
Cieren Fallon claimed a landmark first Group One success aboard Oxted in the Darley July Cup at Newmarket. Fallon, son of former champion Kieren, was the leading apprentice last season and was making his breakthrough at the highest level aboard the Roger Teal-trained victor. He made a bold move over… Read More »
Eleven races will be run and won at Sha Tin on Sunday, with the feature race being the Sha Tin Mile Trophy, a Class One event over 1600m. Race One: 2 Nitro Express Race Two: 5 Mighty Valor Race Three: 3 Circuit Hassler Race Four: 8 General’s Delight Race Five:… Read More »
The July Festival at Newmarket concludes on Saturday night with a bumper eight race meeting, highlighted of course by the Group l July Cup (1200m).
Hot favourite Terebellum could finish only third as her stablemate Nazeef stole the show in the Group One Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket. Having gone down narrowly to Circus Maximus in a pulsating renewal of the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot last month, the John Gosden-trained Terebellum was all the… Read More »
Royal Ascot winners Hello Youmzain and Golden Horde head a classy field of 13 for the Darley July Cup at Newmarket. Traditionally seen as the big midsummer sprinting target, Saturday’s renewal looks well up to scratch. Kevin Ryan’s Hello Youmzain was backing up his victory in last season’s Haydock Sprint… Read More »
Trainer Clive Cox believes Golden Horde will be lining up in “a proper Group One” for the Darley July Cup at Newmarket. The three-year-old will clash with older horses for the first time in Saturday’s six-furlong feature, after making a victorious return to action in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal… Read More »
