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Arqana and Arqana Racing Club will, for the second year, feature among the sponsors at this week's July festival in Newmarket. Arqana sponsors the G2 Arqana July S. for 2-year-olds as part of the promotion for its August Yearling Sale. The G2 Arqana Racing Club Princess Of Wales's S. promotes the company's racing club, which later this year will launch a new syndicate, Ecurie Triptych. Ecurie Triptych will include four horses, to be bought at this year's Arqana yearling and horses-in-training sales, and to be placed with trainers Francis Graffard...

The Peter O'Sullevan Charitable Trust will support the new outdoor arena at the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art at Palace House in Newmarket. The arena will host at least two daily displays of former racehorses training, giving visitors an insight into retraining a racehorse and showcasing their abilities beyond their racing careers. The arena, which is the final part of the National Heritage Centre to be constructed, will also host events throughout the year. Chris Garibaldi, Director of the National Horseracing Museum, said, "We could not be...

Phonsie O'Brien, the youngest and last-living brother of famed trainer Vincent O'Brien, died peacefully at his home in Tipperary, Ireland on Tuesday aged 86, according to published reports. Phonsie O'Brien was the youngest of seven children, and Vincent O'Brien the eldest. Phonsie O'Brien held a training license himself in addition to assisting in the success of his legendary brother, and he will be remembered as the only trainer to send out four consecutive winners of the Galway Plate. O'Brien also enjoyed plenty of success as an amateur rider and a...

Last month's G2 Queen Mary S. winner Lady Aurelia (Scat Daddy) has thrived since returning to America and could work on the turf at Keeneland in the next 10 days, according to trainer Wesley Ward. The 2-year-old filly, one of the most impressive winners at Royal Ascot, is set to return to Europe for the G1 Prix Morny in France Aug. 21. "She is doing beautiful and we're hoping to take her to Keeneland in the next 10 days to work her on the grass," the conditioner said. "They don't...

Tattersalls' midsummer highlight begins today with the three-day July Sale, which offers a selection of broodmares and fillies as well as horses in training. It's an auction with draws together people from all around the world, many combining the chance to add a young jewel to a broodmare band with a week of fantastic racing, stallion parades and parties, while it also attracts buyers from the National Hunt world looking to convert a staying Flat performer into the next Champion Hurdler. Close to nine million gns was traded last year...

Australian Bloodstock Stable's 2014 G1 Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}), the winner of his two outings this year since returning to the care of trainer Andreas Wohler in Germany, is set to return to Group 1 company for his next outing in the G1 Grosser Preis von Berlin Aug. 14. Protectionist won the Melbourne Cup for Wohler but was subsequently transferred to local trainer Kris Lees to continue his career Down Under after the Melbourne Cup. The now-6-year-old entire, however, didn't thrive under the Australian conditions, failing to...

Six-time champion jockey Kieren Fallon, who on Monday announced his retirement from the saddle as well as revealing a three-year battle with depression, is set to begin a "three to four week" stint in hospital as a step towards combating his depression. Dr Adrian McGoldrick, the man to whom Fallon turned to announce the news and reasons for his retirement, said, "The next step in his treatment is that he'll be going to hospital, and after that we'll just be guided by the consultants and specialists. As yet, we haven't...

Thursday marks the start of three days of first-class racing action on Newmarket's July Course, culminating in Saturday's G1 Darley July Cup.  In addition to the regular races of the meeting this year is one of the oddities of the racing calendar, but also one with a more redoubtable history than any other contest on British turf. As Newmarket celebrates its 350th anniversary this year, as important among the Group 1 races and heritage handicaps is the Newmarket Town Plate, which will be run for the 347th time in 2016....

Mick Flanagan, of Townley Hall Bloodstock, has decided to step down from his role as advisor to Merriebelle Stable, he announced Monday. "I will be forever grateful to Charlie Noell and John Moores of Merriebelle Stable as they gave me a run when nobody else would," the Irishman told the TDN. "I am delighted to have purchased both Sydney's Gr 1 Champion S. winner, Vanbrugh, for the outfit along with the Group 2-winning Lonsdale Cup winner, Pale Mimosa, who has returned back to the farm in Ireland in foal to...

Tapit's legions of fans in the U.S. may be surprised that this remarkable stallion, who appears to be well on his way towards a third consecutive sires' championship, is still awaiting his first black-type winner in Europe. This omission, I should add, owes quite a lot to the fact that Tapit hasn't had a lot of representatives in Britain, Ireland and France. On the other hand, the profile of another champion American stallion--Kitten's Joy--is soaring in Europe, thanks to some fine performances by his 3-year-old sons. Taareef wasn't beaten far...

If there is something poignantly unsurprising about his exit from the stage, slipping away into the shadows just as he seemed to be mastering a new script, then the least Kieren Fallon deserves is that we remember the way he once presented himself so boldly in the starkest of spotlights. For he now requires all the fortitude and indomitability we so admired, in his pomp, to meet far graver challenges beyond the sight of all, and the comprehension of most. From the outside, his recent vacillations may have suggested mere...

Arqana has catalogued 128 yearlings for its V.2 Yearling Sale Aug. 17. The sale is a proven source of quality, precocious racehorses often for inexpensive prices. A prime example is the Keith Dalgleish trained Middleham Park Racing owned filly Clem Fandango (Fr) (Elzaam {Aus}). Puchased last year by Federico Barberini for only €11,000, the 2-year-old has won and placed in all four outings to date including when third to 'TDN Rising Star' Lady Aurelia (Scat Daddy) in the G2 Queen Mary S. at Royal Ascot. This year's catalogue is available...