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The G1 Irish St Leger winner Jukebox Jury (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) is off the mark in his secondary career having sired his first winner, Felix (Fr), over 1300m in the Czech Republic. A son of the winning Bering (GB) mare Fait Accompli (Ger), Felix was bred by Gestut Hofgut Mappen and won by four lengths on his second start for trainer Michal Lisek. He was bought as a foal at Arqana's December Sale for €16,000 from Clementine Stud by Norris/Huntingdon and subsequently resold through Stauffenberg Bloodstock to Czech agent Tomas...

2nd-HAY, £6,600, Cond, 7-15, 2yo, 6fT, 1:17.06, sf. SOUTH SEAS (IRE) (c, 2, Lope de Vega {Ire}--Let It Be Me, by Mizzen Mast), an impressive eight-length debut scorer on soft going at Windsor last time June 20, sidestepped last week's quick-ground G2 Superlative S. for this lesser spot and stalked the pace in second through halfway. Easing into a slender lead passing the two pole, the 1-5 lock easily increased his advantage from there and maintained a healthy buffer under urging inside the final furlong to score by 2 3/4...

2.40 Haydock, Cond, £6,600, 2yo, 6fT SOUTH SEAS (IRE) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) lines up in what should be a far easier task on paper than that he would have faced in Saturday's G2 Superlative S. at Newmarket had trainer Andrew Balding opted to run him on quick ground. Qatar Racing's impressive eight-length winner of a six-furlong Windsor maiden last month has soft ground again here, as he did on that occasion and there will be some disappointed people if he does not win this en route to better things....

Despite the impressive manner of his win in the Listed Prix Ridgway at Compiegne on his last start June 13, Mont Ormel was seen by many as being in over his head against representatives of the major stables here but he proved them all wrong with a clear-cut success in this Bastille Day highlight. Third on his 3-year-old bow in the Listed Prix Omnium II over a mile Mar. 20, the bay dropped to sixth in the G3 Prix de Fontainebleau over that trip at Chantilly a month later before...

Seven disciplinary cases have been identified by the British Horseracing Authority as potentially being open to challenge on the grounds of an appearance of bias.The news comes in the wake of non-trier charges against Jim Best that resulted in a four-year ban from the sport being quashed at appeal after it emerged that Matthew Lohn, chairman of the panel hearing the case, had been engaged by the BHA on other matters, giving rise to claims of an appearance of bias in favour of the governing body. A rehearing was ordered....

Breeders' Cup winner Hit It A Bomb (War Front) will not make his return to action this weekend. Aidan O'Brien's lightly-raced 3-year-old had been in line to have his first start since his win at Keeneland in October in the G2 Friarstown Stud Minstrel S. at The Curragh on Sunday. But O'Brien said,"He's good. He's in on Sunday, but he won't run. He's done very well since his break, but he'll take a day away before he runs." The War Front colt struck Grade I gold in the Juvenile Turf...

Awtaad (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}) appears likely to take his chance in the G1 Qatar Sussex S. at Glorious Goodwood on July 27. The Kevin Prendergast-trained colt beat G1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas winner Galileo Gold (GB) (Paco Boy {Ire}) to land the Tattersalls-sponsored Irish equivalent, but had to settle for third behind Hugo Palmer's runner in the G1 St James's Palace S. at Royal Ascot. The G1 Prix Jacques le Marois was also an option, but Prendergast told At The Races, "Hopefully he will run in the Sussex, there's not...

With the possibility of wet weather in October a constant worry for the organisers of QIPCO British Champions Day, Ascot's Clerk of the Course Chris Stickells has revealed that he is considering the option of running the G1 QIPCO Champion S. on a “bespoke” inner course at the Berkshire track. The addition of running rails will create an extra Flat track within the current course and outside the steeplechase course which would make give an extra 80 metres in the run to the first bend, which is thought will help...

Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) has released encouraging figures from the first six months of 2016 which show a steady growth in the number of horses in training, registered owners, runners and prize-money. The 7,024 horses in training represent a 4.5% increase on the previous year, with a near 11% increase in owner registrations pushing the number of active owners in the country up by 1% to 2,892 from 2,867. Entries were up by 3.1% and the number of individual runners by 2.6% at 4,776. Owners were rewarded with a 6.5%...

At the end of the 2015 turf season, Hayley Turner hung up her racing boots for what was thought to be the last time with a final seasonal tally of 43 wins following her shock retirement announcement the previous August. But the popular jockey, with Group/Grade 1 wins to her name aboard Dream Ahead (Darley July Cup), Margot Did (Ire) (Coolmore Nunthorpe S.) and I'm A Dreamer (Ire) (Beverly D S.) makes a surprise return to the saddle tonight with three booked rides at her home track of Newmarket. The...

Tryster (Ire) (Shamardal), the winner of nine of his 14 races for Charlie Appleby, including the G1 Jebel Hatta at Meydan, will travel to America for the first time to line up for the GI Arlington Million on Aug. 3. “He has come out of Ascot well and he deserves a crack at a decent prize in the States,” said Appleby of his 5-year-old who finished fifth behind My Dream Boat (Ire) (Lord Shanakill) on his most recent outing in the G1 Prince of Wales's S. at Royal Ascot. Tryster...

Saturday's G1 Darley Irish Oaks at The Curragh has attracted a dozen runners, with Architecture (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) heading the British challenge for the Hugo Palmer stable. Supplemented at a cost of €40,000, the June 3 G1 Epsom Oaks runner-up bids to emulate the yard's 2015 winner Covert Love (Ire) (Azamour {Ire}) and bounce back from a latest eighth behind the likely hot favourite Even Song (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) in the G2 Ribblesdale S. at Royal Ascot June 16. Sixth in that 12-furlong contest was the stable's May 14 Listed...