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Successful in the race 12 months ago when Green Triangle led home a 1-2-3-4 for the trainer, Joseph O'Brien is mob-handed in this year's Gowran Classic and is responsible for 13 of the 41 horses left standing in the valuable contest. O'Brien's team is headed by the 107-rated Hardy Warrior (Pinatubo) as he bids to land the €200,000 contest for the second year running on Monday. He said, "The Irish EBF Gowran Classic is a standout fixture in the calendar and, having won it last year with Green Triangle, we...

World Pool betting will be in action for the first time at Newmarket's July Course and on Shergar Cup Day.   The inclusion of July Cup Day (11 July) adds another International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) Top 100 Group 1 race to the list of fixtures being commingled with 27 global betting jurisdictions, while Shergar Cup Day (8 August) at Ascot is set to welcome a HKJC team for the first time.   The latest approval of World Pool races also includes a fourth day, up from three, at both Glorious...

Juddmonte has retired Oasis Dream from stud duties after 23 seasons at Banstead Manor Stud. A homebred by Green Desert out of Dancing Brave mare Hope, Oasis Dream was a champion sprinter and a producer of the highest calibre at stud, with the likes of six-time Group 1 winner Midday, champion sprinter Muhaarar, and champion juvenile Native Trail amongst his 18 top-level performers. Of those stallions still active in Britain, only Frankel and Dubawi have sired more Group 1 and Group winners. "Today marks a sad day for the stallion...

Aidan O'Brien has trimmed his team down from eight entries at the beginning of the week and will be represented by a trio of candidates, headed by G2 Futurity and Listed Dee Stakes hero Constitution River (Wootton Bassett), in Sunday's G1 Qatar Prix du Jockey Club after 16 declarations for the €1.5-million contest were confirmed on Thursday morning. Drawn out wide in stall 15, he will be chaperoned by stablemates Hawk Mountain (Wootton Bassett) and Montreal (Sea The Stars) in the 10 1/2-furlong Chantilly feature. Hawk Mountain is nearby in...

Thursday, Sandown, post time: 19:12, THE STAR SPORTS BRIGADIER GERARD STAKES-G3, £95,000, 4yo/up, 9f 209yT Field: Ombudsman (Ire) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}), Almeric (GB) (Study Of Man {Ire}), Arabian Light (Kingman), Bedouin Prince (Ire) (Ghaiyyath {Ire}), Gethin (Ire) (Ghaiyyath {Ire}), Wimbledon Hawkeye (GB) (Kameko). TDN Analysis: Not razor-sharp and burdened with a seven-pound penalty, Ombudsman could be vulnerable again here as he was 12 months ago, but there is no Almaqam in the line-up so he might just get away with it. Almeric's progession seems to have halted and he...

George Strawbridge's Water To Wine (Kingman) had impressed on debut at Newbury last month and came back from a minor setback to continue his march towards Royal Ascot on Wednesday. Sent off the 1-12 favourite for the 11-furlong novice on Kempton's Polytrack, the John and Thady Gosden-trained blueblood sauntered along on the front end under Ryan Moore and when wound up in the straight opened up to score by 11 lengths. Connections had stated beforehand that the winner would likely tackle the G2 King Edward VII Stakes next month. "He's...

Listed heroine Jennifer Jane (New Bay) will not contest the G1 Betfred Oaks on June 5, and instead be pointed toward the Italian version later that month, according to Charlie Johnston. The Russell Trew and Towbraccan runner won at Wetherby last June before running second in the Listed Star Stakes in July. After a fruitless run in the G3 Prestige Fillies' Stakes in August, she was given a break. Making her three-year-old bow in the Listed Pretty Polly Stakes at Newmarket earlier this month, she made all the running to...

   In this series, the TDN takes a look at notable successes of European-based sires in North America. This week's column is highlighted by the victory of Siyouincanada at Churchill Downs. Oh, Canada! Making his first start in the colours of breeder LNJ Foxwoods, Siyouincanada took charge from the bell and stormed home to win by 2 1/2 lengths at Churchill Downs (video). Trained by Joe Sharp, the son of Siyouni is out of the winner Polished (Kitten's Joy). Siyouincanada is the second runner and first winner for his dam,...

'The Home of the Original' is the Jockey Club's tagline for Epsom, and that original is of course the Derby, which for almost 250 years has inspired the hopes and dreams of owners and breeders across England and beyond.  To a degree, the race has become the preserve of the major owner-breeder operations: nine of the last ten runnings of the Derby have gone to horses owned by Coolmore, Godolphin or the Aga Khan Studs. Gary Robinson of Strawberry Fields Stud struck a blow for smaller breeders when producing the...

by TTR AusNZ/Kit Gow/Dane McLeod Stiff competition at all levels resulted in lifts to both the median and the clearance rate at the end of the second day of the 2026 Magic Millions Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale. Valuable pregnancies to Extreme Choice were the stars of the show, with Yulong going to A$2.05 million to secure young Hellbent mare Miss Hellfire in foal to him on her maiden cover. At A Glance Clearance across both days of the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale improved to 81% (77%), while the...

John and Thady Gosden have shaken up the Qatar Prix du Jockey Club by supplementing Craven Stakes winner Oxagon (Franke) at a cost of €72,000 on Wednesday morning. Owned by owner-breeder Prince Faisal, whose Mishriff won the race for the Gosden team in 2020, Oxagon was last seen finishing sixth in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket. Only the Aidan O'Brien-trained Flushing Meadows defected from Sunday's race at the forfeit stage on Wednesday. His Ballydoyle-trained stablemate Constitution River, who also has the option of going to Epsom, for which he is...

Thursday, Sandown, post time: 19:12, THE STAR SPORTS BRIGADIER GERARD STAKES-G3, £95,000, 4yo/up, 9f 209yT Field: Ombudsman (Ire) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}), Almeric (GB) (Study Of Man {Ire}), Arabian Light (Kingman), Bedouin Prince (Ire) (Ghaiyyath {Ire}), Gethin (Ire) (Ghaiyyath {Ire}), Wimbledon Hawkeye (GB) (Kameko). TDN Analysis: Not razor-sharp and burdened with a seven-pound penalty, Ombudsman could be vulnerable again here as he was 12 months ago, but there is no Almaqam in the line-up so he might just get away with it. Almeric's progession seems to have halted and he...