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Group 1-winning juvenile and Classic hero Camille Pissarro will stand at Coolmore Stud in Fethard, Ireland for the 2026 breeding season, following in the footsteps of his late sire, Wootton Bassett. Bred by James Cloney, Camille Pissarro was bought by MV Magnier and White Birch Farm for 1,250,000gns at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. A half-brother to the G1 Commonwealth Cup-winning sire Golden Horde (Lethal Force), he ran seven times as a two-year-old and saved his best performance for last when emulating Wootton Bassett with his victory...

QIPCO British Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday is set to feature four of the top ten horses in the world, with Ombudsman (Night Of Thunder), Field Of Gold (Kingman), Delacroix (Dubawi) and Calandagan (Gleneagles) headlining the confirmations for the five Group 1 races made on Monday. The £1.3m QIPCO Champion Stakes looks like being one of the races of the year, with the world's top-rated horse, Ombudsman, leading 15 confirmations for the 10-furlong contest. The Godolphin-owned four-year-old's ongoing rivalry with Coolmore's Delacroix will be settled at Ascot on Saturday...

European champion two-year-old Shadow Of Light (Lope De Vega) has been retired from racing and will take up stud duties at Kildangan Stud in Ireland next year. A stud fee will be announced at a later date. Trained by Charlie Appleby for Godolphin, Shadow Of Light joins the Darley roster as a dual Group 1 winner, having become only the third two-year-old since the Pattern began to win both the Middle Park Stakes and Dewhurst Stakes. Beaten just once in five starts that season, when filling the runner-up spot in...

NEWMARKET, UK - Mick Murphy has dedicated his lifetime's craft towards producing a horse good enough to win a Group 1 and, when his Longways Stables graduate Gewan (Night Of Thunder) crossed the line in front in Saturday's Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket, he and his wife Sarah were nowhere near the hubbub and celebration that rang out around the racecourse. Instead, Murphy was back at Park Paddocks searching for his next big-name star ahead of the Book 2 session of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. It is almost a year...

High-class filly Barnavara, last seen winning the G1 Prix de l'Opera at ParisLongchamp, is set to go under the hammer at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. She will be consigned by Baroda Stud and will feature as part of the fourth edition of the Sceptre Sessions, which will be held on Monday, December 1 and Tuesday, December 2. Trained by Jessica Harrington for Alpha Racing, Barnavara has gone from strength to strength since gaining her first black-type victory in June's Listed Kooyonga Stakes at Navan. The daughter of Calyx has...

Darius Racing and Michael Motschmann's G3 Zufunfts-Rennen victor Gostam (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}), Germany's highest-rated juvenile, lined up as the 2-5 favourite for Sunday's G3 Wettstar Preis des Winterfavoriten at Cologne and justified cramped odds with a scintillating five-length triumph in the one-mile contest. He becomes the third winner of Germany's premier juvenile event for conditioner Andreas Wohler, who struck with Darius Racing's subsequent G1 Deutsches Derby hero Isfahan (Lord Of England) in 2015 and with the Gestut Fahrhof-bred Langtang (Campanologist) in 2016. "His mind isn't fully developed, but he's a...

Sunday, Cologne, Germany, post time: 15:35, WETTSTAR.DE - PREIS DES WINTERFAVORITEN-G3, €155,000, 2yo, 8fT Field: Dalyan (Fr) (Romanised {Ire}), Gostam (Ger) (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}), Guevara (Ger) (Alson {Ger}), Lommi (Ire) (Churchill {Ire}), Next Emerald (Ger) (Best Solution {Ire}), Nitaro (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), Somi (Ire) (Magna Grecia {Ire}), Spezialist (Ger) (Protectionist {Ger}). TDN Analysis: Last month's G3 Zukunfts-Rennen victor Gostam puts his perfect two-for-two record on the line and sets a lofty standard in Germany's premier juvenile contest. His opposition includes Listed Junioren-Preis third Dalyan and the once-raced Somi, who...

   In this series, the TDN takes a look at notable successes of European-based sires in North America. This column is highlighted by the victory of Silawi at Woodbine. Dubawi Gelding Claims The Canadian International Wathnan Racing's Silawi (Dubawi) earned his first top-tier win in the Canadian International Stakes at Woodbine on October 4 (video). Bred by Wertheimer and Frere, he is trained by Hamad Al Jehani. Sold for €380,000 out of the Arqana Arc Sale in 2023, the five-year-old gelding is also a winner of the G3 Winter Hill...

Night Of Thunder colt Gewan ignited another Classic dream for his owner Yuesheng Zhang, who has already won the Irish Oaks with Magical Lagoon (Galileo) and came close to 2,000 Guineas glory with Lucky Vega (Lope De Vega), who is now a stallion under his dual-hemisphere Yulong operation. Zhang already has a significant racing and breeding operation in Australia, where his runners include the multiple Group 1 winner Via Sistina (Fastnet Rock) - bought from Tattersalls for 2.7 million gns two years ago - and where he has an 11-strong...

The Coolmore partners' G1 Fillies' Mile heroine Precise (Starspangledbanner) has been awarded a mark of 113p by Timeform for her Newmarket heroics. She leads the rankings for her age and sex, with Aidan O'Brien stablemate and G1 Cheveley Park Stakes winner True Love (No Nay Never) is second at 111. G1 Prix Morny victress Venetian Sun (Starman) is third for Karl Burke at 110p, while another O'Brien runner, G1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Diamond Necklace (St Mark's Basilica) is fourth at 109p. Group winner and G1 Moyglare Stud Stakes second...

Left out of most equations following his fourth in the Champagne, Yuesheng Zhang's Gewan (Night Of Thunder) bounced back in style on unseasonably quick ground to cause a 25-1 upset in Saturday's G1 Darley Dewhurst Stakes. Always in the front line under James Doyle, the Andrew Balding-trained grey who had earlier won the Acomb at York drifted over to the stand's rail but maintained his momentum to deny Ballydoyle's well-backed 7-4 favourite Gstaad (Starspangledbanner) by 3/4 of a length. Godolphin's Distant Storm (Night Of Thunder) was 1 1/2 lengths away in...

The Group 1-placed G3 Prix des Chenes hero Misunderstood (Hello Youmzain) (lot 372) is one of the highlights of Arqana's Autumn Sale catalogue which was revealed on Saturday. The sale is responsible for top-level graduates under both codes, and in addition to Misunderstood, will also offer group winners Midak (Footstepsinthesand) (lot 374) and Roshvar (Siyouni) (lot 375). Among the stores and NH yearlings are siblings to Grade 1 winners St Donats (Saint Des Saints) (lot 534); Jade De Grugy (Doctor Dino) (lot 540), Ches Demonmirail (Doctor Dino) (lot 603); Stormy...