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3.40 Newmarket, Cond, £14,000, 2yo, 7fT DREAMFIELD (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) bids to build on an impressive eight-length winning debut at Nottingham earlier this month in this Houghton Conditions S. won for the last two years by the same John Gosden stable. Godolphin's 1.1-million gns TATOCT son of the G1 Pretty Polly S. and G1 Prix Jean Romanet heroine Izzi Top (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) meets four opponents who appear to lack the Classic credentials he currently enjoys.

The newly-merged Plus Vital - Equinome is holding a series of five free seminars around Ireland and the UK to inform breeders, trainers and owners about the range of genetic tests the company now offers to the racing and breeding industry. Professor Emmeline Hill and Associate Professor Lisa Katz addressed the crowd at the first seminar, which was held in the Keadeen Hotel in Newbridge, Co Kildare on Monday night. Bedford Lodge in Newmarket hosts a seminar on Wednesday with another at Wetherby Racecourse on Thursday night, while Horse and...

John Gosden-trained fillies So Mi Dar (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Journey (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) will both bypass this year's Breeders' Cup. Lord Lloyd-Webber's So Mi Dar shaped with a filly of great promise in the spring, winning the G3 Musidora S. on her third start in May, but missed the summer through injury. She won her comeback race, the Listed John Musker Fillies' S., Sept. 14 before finishing a strong third in the G1 Prix de l'Opera Longines Oct. 2. Gosden noted he would prefer to wait until next year...

Top sprinting filly Quiet Reflection (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) will race on as a 4-year-old in 2017, according to trainer Karl Burke. The bay won this year's G1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot and Haydock's G1 Sprint Cup either side of finishing third in the G1 Darley July Cup, and wrapped up her campaign with a seventh-place finish in the G1 Qipco British Champions Sprint S. back at Ascot Oct. 15. Explaining that below-par performance, Burke said, "It was just an end-of-season run. Our horses have not been in form. She...

Dual G1 Nunthorpe S. winner Mecca's Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), whose retirement from racing was announced on Monday by trainer Michael Dods, has been sold privately in a deal brokered by Blandford Bloodstock, according to published reports, and will be covered by Galileo (Ire) next year. The 5-year-old Mecca's Angel, a 16,000gns yearling purchase, went on to win 10 of 20 starts and just shy of $1-million in prize money. She took the last two runnings of the Nunthorpe for owner David Metcalfe and won three other group races....

The final share in Wootton Bassett (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}), the sire of Almanzor (Fr), will be auctioned on Arqana Online from Oct. 24 at 3 p.m. French time, with the auction concluding Oct. 25 at 3 p.m. Wootton Bassett was syndicated in 50 shares, of which 20 were offered to breeders and 30 retained by Haras d'Etreham, where he stands. France's champion 2-year-old himself, Wootton Bassett is currently Europe's leading second-season sire. From a first crop of just 17 foals he has sired Almanzor, who won this year's G1 Prix...

The catalogue for Goffs UK's Doncaster Autumn Horses-in-Training and Yearling Sale, set for Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, is online. Among the 140 yearlings catalogued for the opening session are lot 15, a Foxwedge (Aus) half-sister to dual group winner Finjaan (GB) (Royal Applause {GB}); lot 34, a Rock Of Gibraltar (Ire) colt who is the first foal out of a half-sister to champion Harbinger (GB) (Dansili {GB}); and lot 37, an Epaulette (Aus) half-sister to the stakes-winning Havana Beat (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}). Goffs Group Chief Executive Henry Beeby said,...

The catalogue for the Tattersalls December Foal Sale is online, with 1,135 lots slated to sell across the four-day sale Nov. 23 to 26. The lineup includes 104 foals by the current top 10 active British and Irish sires and 216 by the current top 20. There are sibling to 147 stakes winners set to be offered, including lot 950, a Frankel (GB) half-sister to G1 Investec Oaks winner Talent (GB) (New Approach {Ire}). Frankel's sire, Galileo (Ire), is represented by a lone offering, a daughter of the Group 3-winning...

1st-GOW, €15,500, Mdn, 10-18, 2yo, 8fT, 1:46.47, sf/hy. SIR JOHN LAVERY (IRE) (c, 2, Galileo {Ire}--Race for the Stars {GSW-Ire & SW-Eng, $191,842}, by Fusaichi Pegasus), who hit the board going nine furlongs at The Curragh on debut last time Oct. 10, dwelt at the break here and raced just off the pace in sixth through the early fractions. Cruising into contention on the home turn, the 8-13 favourite was shaken up to lead soon after passing the two pole and powered clear under whipless coaxing to easily account for...

As the flat season nears its end, black-type opportunities are becoming thinner on the ground and Wednesday's G3 Prix des Reservoirs at Deauville offers one of the last for the juvenile fillies, with Invincible Queen (Fr) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) looking to make her mark. Sheikh Abdulla bin Khalifa Al Thani's bay struck a chord when winning impressively on debut over this course and distance Aug. 23 before finishing fourth as the favourite in Chantilly's G3 Prix d'Aumale also over this trip Sept. 8 and sets the standard on that form....

Horse Racing Ireland has created a new Racehorse Ownership Department dedicated to the recruitment and retention of racehorse owners in Ireland. Aidan McGarry, former Racehorse Ownership Manager within Irish Thoroughbred Marketing, has been appointed Owner Relations Manager of the new HRI department, although the ownership department will retain its close links with ITM. McGarry will liaise with current owners, both domestic and international, helping to ensure that the ownership experience in Ireland is of a consistently high standard. A significant focus will be on working with racecourses to continue improving...

2.05 Gowran Park, Mdn, €15,500, 2yo, 8fT HARIPOUR (IRE) (Shamardal) is a half-brother to none other than Harzand (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}), this year's G1 English and Irish Derby hero who races from the same Dermot Weld stable. His Highness The Aga Khan's bay who is also a half-sibling of three other black-type performers including the G3 Silver Flash S. winner and G1 Moyglare Stud S. third Harasiya (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) encounters a four-strong Ballydoyle entourage of which the unraced Auckland (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) forms a notable part. A...