It all began with a pretty innocuous suggestion. Little did Craig Bernick know at the time but his mother Carol's plan to go and try to buy some colts instead of concentrating solely on fillies at the breeding stock sales would bear fruit at Royal Ascot less than two years down the line.  But in [...]

Owner Tony O'Gorman is adamant that Britannia Stakes-bound Bobby McGee (Mayson) is a Group horse in the making and says only “strong money” would see him part with the Noel Meade-trained improver at the Goffs London Sale next week.  Bobby McGee has won his last three starts for Meade, most recently when accounting for a [...]

Trainer Michael O'Callaghan has opened up about the emotion surrounding the Goodwood success of The Harv (Ten Sovereigns), named in honour of his late friend and business partner John Fleming, who helped source the Royal Ascot-bound juvenile merely hours before his untimely death back in April.  The Harv was heavily-punted into 5-6 favouritism before making [...]

Arena Racing Company [ARC] has announced the appointment of Julian Thick as Group Delivery and Special Projects Director.  Thick has held senior roles at various Jockey Club Racecourse venues, as Chief Executive of Newbury Racecourse and a Board Director of Racecourse Media Group. Most recently, Thick has been working as a business advisor to Levy [...]

With just six horses in training in Europe, Shapoor Mistry operates on a scale that is dwarfed by the powerhouse operations – but it has proved no barrier to success for the Indian native who, off the back of a dream fortnight stacked full of important winners, could enjoy his greatest success yet when homebred [...]

Owner Paul Byrne and trainer Emmet Mullins have launched themselves head first into arguably their most exciting challenge yet with the purchase of recent G3 Gallinule Stakes runner-up Zia Zabel (Ghaiyyath), who the pair will try to make up into a National Hunt stallion.  Whether it has been eye-watering gambles or plundering some of the [...]

Aktem will bid to throw down a marker with its first-ever breeze-up sale taking place at Maisons-Laffitte on Wednesday, where 81 juveniles will go under the hammer. The sales company's Daniel Cooper has outlined hopes for the breeze-up sale to grow and revealed that there could be considerable scope for a much bigger catalogue in [...]

The Breeze-Up Consignors Association and Arqana have united to ensure there is no repeat of the unsavoury behaviour from earlier this month Brendan Holland, head of the Breeze-Up Consignors Association (BUCA), has spoken of his deep embarrassment about incidents of excessive drinking, fighting and damage caused at the recent sales in Deauville making it onto [...]

Spirits were raised at the Tattersalls Ireland Breeze-Up Sale on Friday when so many consignors who were feeling pain for the majority of the sale season enjoyed a much-needed shot in the arm on a day when when a Starman filly and St Mark's Basilica colt shared the spoils for top lot status at €360,000. [...]

Leading vendors and buyers open up ahead of the Tattersalls Ireland Breeze-Up Sale “We've three or four owners who are mad keen to get in on the action,” said Ross O'Sullivan on the eve of the Tattersalls Ireland Breeze-Up Sale.  O'Sullivan was one of many domestic trainers – Ado McGuinness, Paddy Twomey, Stephen Thorne, Michael [...]

Kia Joorabchian has poured cold water on any potential severing of ties between trainer Robson Aguiar after the Brazilian native claimed he had lost at least 10 Amo Racing-trained runners on Monday.  The Amo boss went as far as saying he was “shocked” by the trainer's comments and refuted any talk of grumblings between the [...]

DEAUVILLE, FRANCE — On the eve of Zanthos's eagerly-anticipated return in the French 1,000 Guineas, the Rockfel Stakes winner's consignor Roderic Kavanagh unleashed another show-stopping Sioux Nation filly at €1.1million to Anthony Stroud at the Arqana Breeze-Up Sale. Kavanagh turned Zanthos from a €48,000 yearling into a €1 million sensation at this sale 12 months [...]