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Colm Quinn BMW Athlone and Galway will be a new title sponsor for the Tuesday card at Galway's racing festival, which is staged July 25 through 31. The new partnership deal, which runs for three years, has prize money valued at nearly €500,000 in total, and encompasses three races, including the feature Colm Quinn BMW Mile Handicap. "We are delighted to welcome Colm Quinn BMW as the title sponsor of Tuesday evening of the Summer Festival on July 26," said Galway Racecourse General Manager Michael Moloney. "Colm Quinn BMW has...

Tickets are on sale for the second Newmarket Open Weekend, which has been expanded to two days, Sept. 17 and 18. Tickets range from £14.40 to £30. Last year's event raised £50,000 for three local charities, and this year's beneficiaries will be the Racing Welfare Housing Project and the Newmarket Day Centre. Saturday's events will include public access to Warren Hill gallops; a first look at the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art; a tour and talk at Tattersalls; guided tours of the Jockey Club rooms; and racing...

    Jemayel (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}), who ran seventh in last month's Listed Prix Finlande on seasonal return at Chantilly, upset the odds to prevail in Monday's G1 Pour Moi Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary, re-routed from its usual Longchamp slot, at Deauville. Well away from the inside gate to race under a tight grip in fifth sporting cheekpieces here, the 23-2 chance made a beeline for the inside strip passing the quarter-mile marker and was driven out once making her bid at the eighth pole to hold the late thrust...

1st-DVL, €25,000, Mdn, 5-16, 2yo, 5fT, 1:00.84, gd. +RAJELINE (FR) (f, 2, Rajsaman {Fr}--Tengeline {Fr}, by Cardoun {Fr}), a €20,000 OSLATE yearling, broke in the second rank and stalked the pace racing a shade keenly through the early stages of this unveiling. Pushed along just inside the two pole, the 77-5 chance was angled wide to deliver her challenge approaching the final furlong and ran on strongly under whipless rousting to prevail by a short neck from So Hoity Toity (GB) (Harbour Watch {Ire}). Rajeline becomes the first winner for...

Godolphin's Charming Thought (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), winner of the G1 Middle Park S. in 2014, is working towards a comeback and holds an entry in the G1 Darley July Cup at Newmarket July 9. The 4-year-old, who won three of his four outings as a juvenile, has not been seen since winning the Middle Park, having missed all of last season due to injury. "Charming Thought is back cantering away. He has done well, physically, and he looks like a sprinter," said trainer Charlie Appleby. "We have not put...

It must be extremely irritating for those still hoping to win the damned thing to hear so many curmudgeons mistaking a wide open G1 Investec Derby for a mediocre one. Often, of course, you only get the kind of stand-out favourite people seem to be craving precisely when his peers are not up to standard. If anything, the fact that so many colts are clustering together on the Epsom road will place an exceptional premium on those assets--speed, stamina, agility--that make the great race such a reliable platform for future...

7.30 Windsor, Mdn, £4,500, 3yo/up, f/m, 8f 67yT SNOW PIXIE (Flower Alley) is a half-sister to the remarkable six-times Group 1 winner Snow Fairy (Ire) (Intikhab), who took Cristina Patino's Anamoine Limited and trainer Ed Dunlop on such a memorable journey through the English and Irish Oaks and on to Japan and Hong Kong. Representing the same owner and trainer, the unraced dark bay encounters another notable debutante in George Strawbridge's I Am (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), a John Gosden-trained half-sister to the 2010 G2 Cherry Hinton S. winner Memory (Ire)...

Khalid Abdullah's Time Test (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), widely considered a Group 1-winner in the making last year after winning Royal Ascot's G3 Tercentenary S., could get another shot at a top-level score in the Tattersalls Gold Cup at The Curragh May 22. The bay, who was only fourth in the G1 Juddmonte International in August but rebounded to win the G2 Joel S. in September, has not been seen since finishing 10th in the GI Breeders' Cup Mile Oct. 31. "Time Test is in good form," confirmed trainer Roger Charlton....

Highclere Thoroughbred Racing's Foundation (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) is bound for the G1 Prix du Jockey Club June 5 on the back of his third-place finish behind stablemate Wings Of Desire (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) in the G2 Dante S. at York May 12. In that contest, last year's G2 Royal Lodge S. winner was trapped in the lane and, once getting out late, made up ground to hit the board. "He ran a great race," said Highclere Chairman Harry Herbert. "Unfortunately, [jockey] William [Buick] wasn't able to extricate himself when he...

Monday sees Cologne play host to the G2 Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen (German 2000 Guineas), which is always finely balanced between staying at home or going overseas depending on the strength of the domestic defence. Heading that this year is Dr Alexandra Renz's Millowitsch (Ger) (Sehrezad {Ire}), who captured the 8 1/2-furlong G3 Dr Busch-Memorial at Krefeld last time Apr. 24. Previously successful in the €200,000 Ferdinand Leisten-Memorial at Baden-Baden and third in the G3 Baden-Badener Zukunftsrennen in September, the bay is a solid proposition in a renewal lacking a flashy protagonist. From...

Already successful in a G1 Prix de Diane trial in Saint-Cloud's G3 Prix Penelope, the unbeaten Camprock (Fr) (Myboycharlie {Ire}) bids to both maintain her perfect run and also book a ticket to that June 19 Chantilly Classic in Monday's G1 Pour Moi Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary at Deauville. Having beaten the subsequent listed scorer Besotted (Ire) (Dutch Art {GB}) in the Listed Prix Rose de Mai over this trip at Saint-Cloud Mar. 12, Ecurie du Grand Chene's bay had another winner in that category in The Juliet Rose (Fr) (Monsun...

DEAUVILLE, France -- Deauville, more used to coming under the group-race spotlight in high summer, dusted off its Sunday best and emphatically dispelled any doubt as to its suitability as the temporary host of the first two French Classics of the season. There's no question that a cloudless blue sky and a horde of Parisiens enjoying the extended public holiday weekend went a long way to enhancing the feelgood factor on the first really big day of the French season but, following a blockbuster breeze-up sale at Arqana on Saturday,...