Sean Cronin

Trawlerman Leads Home Gosden Stable Exacta in York's Lonsdale Cup

Royal Ascot's G1 Gold Cup hero Trawlerman (Golden Horn) went postward as the odds-on favourite for Thursday's G2 Weatherbys Lonsdale Cup Stakes at York and, towing home fellow Clarehaven representative Sweet William (Sea The Stars), emulated his John and Thady Gosden-trained former stablemate Stradivarius by winning the two-mile York marathon as a seven-year-old. “The three-year-old [...]

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Song Of The Clyde Delivers Third Straight Harry's Half Million For Clive Cox

Clive Cox's love affair with York's Harry's Half Million By Goffs showed no signs of abating after Middleham Park Racing's Song Of The Clyde (Sergei Prokofiev) delivered a third straight edition of the valuable contest for the trainer. “Harry Beeby was a good friend of mine, it's such a good incentive and even better to [...]

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Pinatubo Filly Zalina Impresses in Deauville Debut

2nd-Deauville, €27,400, Mdn, 8-19, unraced 2yo, f, 8fT, 1:44.46, g/s. ZALINA (FR) (f, 2, Pinatubo {Ire}–Lady Baker, by Pioneerof The Nile) broke well and asserted for control after the initial strides of this unveiling. Holding sway thereafter, the 37-5 chance was bustled along turning for home and kept on powerfully under continued urging inside the [...]

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Bow Echo Dazzles With TDN Rising Star Display at Newbury

Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum's homebred 2-year-old colt Bow Echo (Night Of Thunder), who hails from the family of Dubawi, went postward as the 2-1 joint-favourite for Friday's TPT Fire Supports St Michaels Hospice EBF Maiden Stakes at Newbury and returned with a TDN Rising Star rosette after delivering a mightily impressive wide-margin triumph in [...]

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Godolphin's Dance To The Music Sets the Tempo in Newmarket Feature

Godolphin homebred Dance To The Music (Dubawi) notched a one-length debut triumph at Newmarket's Rowley Mile track in May and maintained her unbeaten record with a battling display in Saturday's G3 Newsells Park Stud Sweet Solera Stakes at the town's summer venue. Stalking the pace in second through halfway, the 11-4 chance was shaken up [...]

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Arqana Millionaire Zanthos Impresses With TDN Rising Star Display in Newmarket Debut

KHK Racing's Zanthos (Sioux Nation) hit the €1-million mark at May's Arqana Breeze-Up sale and recovered some of that initial outlay with a taking debut success in Saturday's Tattersalls £40,000 EBF Newcomers' Maiden Fillies' Stakes at Newmarket. In command throughout the seven-furlong newcomers' test, the 4-5 favourite was rowed along with 1 1/2 furlongs remaining [...]

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Ebbesloh Homebred Nicoreni Annexes Fifth Preis der Diana for Peter Schiergen

Gestut Ebbesloh's G3 Preis der Winterkonigin victrix Nicoreni (Brametot) finished second in both prior starts this term and she put her head in front where it mattered most and provided trainer Peter Schiergen with a fifth renewal of Sunday's G1 167th Henkel-Preis der Diana (German Oaks) at Dusseldorf. “It always feels good to win such [...]

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Prix de Diane Third Cankoura Bounces Back in Style to Annex Deauville's Prix de Psyche

Francis Graffard trainee Cankoura (Persian King) was last seen running third in June's G1 Prix de Diane and bounced back in style to register a first pattern-race triumph for her second-crop sire in Sunday's G3 Sky Sports Racing Prix de Psyche at Deauville. “On the formline, she was the hot favourite and probably should have [...]

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Aidan O'Brien Trainee Isaac Newton Sheds Maiden Status at Goodwood

6th-Goodwood, £75,000, Mdn, 8-2, 2yo, c/g, 7fT, 1:26.63, g/s. ISAAC NEWTON (IRE) (c, 2, Camelot {GB}–Etive {SW-Ger & MSP-Fr, $126,693}, by Elusive Quality), a nose shy of stablemate New Zealand (Frankel) when a July 19 debut runner-up over this trip at the Curragh last time, raced in a midfield seventh through halfway here. Urged closer [...]

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Waardah Outbattles Danielle in Thrilling Lillie Langtry Duel

Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum's Waardah (Postponed), a G1 Yorkshire Oaks entry, notched a black-type breakthrough at Goodwood in June and revisited the Sussex Downs venue to claim a career high with a battling victory in Saturday's 14-furlong G2 Qatar Lillie Langtry Stakes. “Callum [Rodriguez] said Waardah switched off great and, in hindsight, he probably got [...]

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Seagulls Eleven Makes All for Thoroughbred Triumph at Goodwood

Friday's G3 Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes at Goodwood was shorn of the Godolphin duo Opera Ballo and Spectacular View, and it was the former's Listed Sir Henry Cecil Stakes vanquished Seagulls Eleven (Galileo) who stepped forward to claim a stakes breakthrough in his eighth attempt at black-type level. “I have just about recovered from his dad [...]

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Frankel's Oxagon Powers to TDN Rising Stardom With Imperious Sandown Display

John and Thady Gosden trainee Oxagon (Frankel) shaped with a deal of promise when fifth in a hot winner-producing Newmarket maiden earlier this month and delivered a stunning performance in his second start to earn a TDN Rising Star rosette in Wednesday evening's Chasemore Farm EBF Novice Stakes at Sandown. He becomes the 44th Rising [...]

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