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Profitable (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and My Dream Boat (Ire) (Lord Shanakill), who provided trainer Clive Cox with a Group 1 double at Royal Ascot, could be in action at York's Ebor meeting next week. Profitable looks likely to line up for the G1 Nunthorpe S. over five furlongs, the trip over which he won the G1 King's Stand S. at the Royal meeting. "Profitable is in excellent form and I have been very pleased with him," said Cox. "The Nunthorpe is looking like a race to savour and we...

Call it a non-event if you must. To some of us, it didn't matter that he started at odds nearly as microscopic as the bank rate; nor even that his only credible rival failed to match the laudable boldness of his connections. To some of us, Caravaggio (Scat Daddy) is fast becoming the highlight of the European summer. As his namesake might have told us, after all, even a masterpiece will often go through an ambiguous stage, between the first, inspired outlines of conception and the depth of shading that...

After a warm-up win that barely hinted at her inherent ability in the Listed Preis Dusseldorf over 10 1/2 furlongs June 25, Serienholde whose family is rich with domestic Classic performers stepped up to provide trainer Andreas Wohler with a fourth renewal of this prestigious prize and a third in succession in the able hands of Eduardo Pedroza. Runner-up to Dhaba (Ger) (Areion {Ger}) in Baden-Baden's G3 Preis der Winterkonigin over a mile in October, the bay was breaking her maiden over the same distance at Dortmund June 4 before...

Five-time Group 1-winning sprinter Lankan Rupee (Aus) (Redoute's Choice {Aus}), not seen in action since suffering a ligament injury when third in last October's G2 Schillaci S., is back in the Caulfield stable of trainer Mick Price and is being prepared for a 7-year-old campaign this spring. "He has been bouncing around the stable like a 2-year-old, which is really pleasing," Price told Racing.com. "There is always some doubt whether older horses still want to do it when they come back from a long break with injury, but all the...

3rd-CUR, €18,000, Mdn, 8-7, 2yo, 8fT, 1:39.62, g/f. UTAH (IRE) (c, 2, Galileo {Ire}--Healing Music {Fr}, by Bering {GB}), who was sixth on debut behind stablemate and TDN Rising Star Douglas Macarthur (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) over a mile at Leopardstown July 21, was in front after the first furlong. Turning the screw approaching the final two furlongs, the €260,000 GOFORB yearling who is a full-brother to the G1 Epsom Derby runner-up At First Sight (Ire), G1SP-Eng, MGSP-Ire, GSP-Aus, $776,277, had 2 1/4 lengths to spare over stablemate The Anvil (Ire)...

Anything other than a clear-cut victory for Susan Magnier's unbeaten Caravaggio here would have been a disappointment and it was ultimately textbook stuff as Seamie Heffernan steered him to an easy verdict over his maiden stablemate Courage Under Fire. Having scared off any meaningful opposition from elsewhere with a mixture of fearsome reputation and form in the book, having won a decent renewal of the G2 Coventry S. at Royal Ascot June 14, the grey faced the weakest assembly of runners for this important staging post seen in some time....

Proving that his latest third to Twilight Son (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}) in the G1 Diamond Jubilee S. at Royal Ascot June 18 was no fluke, Signs of Blessing made all and stayed out of trouble to record a career-best in a race that unfortunately saw the fatal fall of the Hong Kong raider Gold-Fun (Ire) (Le Vie dei Colori {GB}) late on. After a delay caused by Jimmy Two Times breaking through the stalls, the bay received a masterful ride from the front and Stephane Pasquier judged it perfectly as...

Terre (Fr) (Motivator {GB}), the 2-year-old full-sister to dual G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine Treve (Fr), will make her racecourse debut within the next month, according to trainer Criquette Head-Maarek. Terre was a €1.2-million buyback by the Head family's Haras du Quesnay at last year's Arqana August yearling sale. That operation also bred and campaigned Treve before selling her privately to Al Shaqab Racing after her four-length romp in the 2013 G1 Prix de Diane. Head-Maarek said of Terre, "She's coming on. She's a nice filly. I like...

The Classic season of Galileo Gold (GB) (Paco Boy {Ire}) could be further enhanced by a trip to Deauville with connections weighing up a crack at the G1 Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville a week today. Hugo Palmer's stable star made a dazzling start to his season when winning the G1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas at Newmarket before finishing second to Awtaad (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}). Further top-flight success came his was at Royal Ascot when taking the G1 St James's Palace S. b a length and a quarter from...

Brazil may be the focus of the sporting world for the next few weeks but one Brazilian who continues to make headlines in Europe is Silvestre de Sousa, who led the Rest of the World team to victory in the tenth running of the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup at Ascot. Champion jockey in Britain last season and once again at the top of the table in 2016, de Sousa was joined by Japanese jockey Kenichi Ikezoe and South Africa's Gavin Lerena, both of whom were having their first taste...

The Norwegian-trained Quarterback (Ger) (American Post {GB}-Quebra {Ger}, by Surumu {Ger}) landed the feature race at Klampenborg on Saturday when swooping late up the stands' rail for victory in the G3 Chess Racing Scandinavian Open Championship. The winner of the listed Scandic Norsk Derby for trainer Rune Haugen last season, the 4-year-old came into the race having finished third to Hurricane Red (Ire) (Hurricane Run {Ire}) in the G3 Subaru Oslo Cup on July 14. Last of the 12 runners as the field turned into the home straight, jockey Jan-Erik...

So full of promise when scoring with authority on his sole juvenile start over seven furlongs at Doncaster in October, Royal Artillery was too green and under-cooked when staying on late to be fourth on his next outing in Sandown's Listed Heron S. over a mile May 26. He may have been undone by soft ground when finishing fifth in first-time cheekpieces in the G3 Tercentenary S. over 10 furlongs at Royal Ascot last time June 16 and so entered this initial encounter with the older horses still unexposed and...