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Last season's champion apprentice and dual Lester award winner Josephine Gordon has relocated from Lambourn to Newmarket, where she is now employed by Hugo Palmer. Speaking in the Sun newspaper, the trainer confirmed, “I'm going to pay her to work for me. Josephine will be riding out at Kremlin Cottage Stables every morning, in a...
Arqana will begin their 2017 sales season by offering the 10-year-old mare Blissful Beat (GB) (Beat Hollow {GB}) for sale on their on-line platform arqanaonline.com. Best known as the dam of Hugo Palmer's high class Home Of The Brave (Ire) (<a href="https://coolmore.com/en/ireland/stallion/starspangledbanner/ " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Starspangledbanner</a> {Aus}), Blissful Beat will be offered by Haras du Grand Chene in foal to...
Ever since the G1 Pegasus World Cup Invitational was announced last May, it has got people talking. Everything about it defies convention and the organisers look set to be rewarded for their boldness with an incredible inaugural running of the race on Jan. 28 featuring Arrogate (Unbridled's Song) and California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) in a...
It's not often a 2016 Classic winner would have the 2017 Cheltenham Festival as his aim but that is what could be in store for Wicklow Brave (GB) (Beat Hollow {GB}). The Willie Mullins trained gelding famously turned over the long odds-on shot Order Of St George (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the G1 Palmerstown Estate...
Darley will offer breeders the opportunity to view their full roster of Irish and British based stallions over the next week. They begin with an open day in Kildangan Stud Friday and Saturday where the Irish line up of stallions will be available for viewing between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. each day. Next week,...
French breeders will have the option of using a son of Japanese star sire Deep Impact (Jpn) (Sunday Silence) with the arrival of Martinborough (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}–Halwa Song, by Nureyev) at Haras de Grandcamp for stud duties later this month. The Northern Farm bred Group 3 winning 8-year-old was purchased through Broadhurst Agency's Laurent...
While we were celebrating Christmas, Marco Botti was celebrating his 40th birthday, but a rather more important milestone for the trainer is notching up his first decade in Newmarket. With Botti hailing from Italy and his wife and right-hand woman Lucie from the Czech Republic, it is perhaps no surprise that the couple has reached...
Acapulco (Scat Daddy), who scored her biggest win in the G2 Queen Mary S. at Royal Ascot in 2015, will be transferred to Ballydoyle maestro Aidan O'Brien from the Wesley Ward barn, Racing Post reported Monday. Her long-term goal is the G1 King's Stand S. at Royal Ascot in June. The hulking chestnut behemoth ran...
The recent talk in Britain about the perceived lurch towards speed at the expense of stamina is certainly an interesting one. Our table lists proven sires available to breeders in Britain and Ireland in 2017 whose stamina index is 9.5 furlongs and higher and who have achieved a ratio of black-type winners of 4.5% or...
Royal Ascot hopeful and 'TDN Rising Star' Blue Point (Ire) (Shamardal) will be readied to make his seasonal reappearance in the G2 Sandy Lane S. at Haydock in May upon his return from a winter break in Dubai. The 2-year-old is in line for the six-furlong contest ahead of an outing in the G1 Commonwealth...
Godolphin, the global thoroughbred breeding and horseracing stable founded by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, launched their Godolphin Fantasy Stable League Monday. An interactive online gaming competition allowing fans of Godolphin and horseracing to create their own fantasy horseracing stable and compete in competitions against friends for the chance to win a...
TDN's Daithí Harvey caught up with English trainer Eve Johnson-Houghton ahead of her Qatar Derby challenge with Scarlet Dragon (GB) (Sir Percy {GB}). TDN: It appears 2016 was your most successful year both from a winners and prizemoney perspective. Did any particular changes you made to your strategy bring about this increased success or has...
