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A maiden entering Saturday's G3 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Salsabil Stakes at Navan, Shapoor Mistry's Thundering On (Frankel) relished the step up to middle distances to stake her Classic claims. As a daughter of the owner-breeder's Pretty Polly heroine Thundering Nights (Night Of Thunder), the rise to this extended 10-furlong trip was ideal and once Joey Sheridan pressed the button approaching the final furlong the outcome was not in doubt. At the line, the Oaks entry had 3 1/4 lengths to spare over the Donnacha O'Brien-trained Emmeleia (Camelot) as the fillies...

Following the example of stablemate Charles Darwin in the preceding race at Navan on Saturday, Scandinavia (Justify) kept to the script when making a winning return in the Listed Vintage Crop Stakes. Sent off the 11-10 favourite for the 14-furlong contest used by Ballydoyle for many years for their star stayers such as Kyprios, Order Of St George and Yeats, last year's St Leger and Goodwood Cup hero waited behind the leading duo early. Sent forward by Ryan Moore to gain the edge approaching the furlong pole, the leading player...

Off the track since taking the Norfolk at Royal Ascot, Ballydoyle's Charles Darwin (No Nay Never) returned to continue the winning sequence in Saturday's Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Committed Stakes at Navan. Asked to head the field by Ryan Moore under a five-pound penalty, the 4-11 favourite was a sitting duck throughout the near-six-furlong contest but answered every call to register a 1 1/4-length verdict over the Curragh maiden winner Silk Braid (Invincible Army) from the Ger Lyons stable. "It was good to get him started. He's a bull...

Saturday's two-year-old maiden at Navan boasted Charles Darwin, Camille Pissarro, River Tiber and Aesop's Fables as it's last four winners and the latest renewal taken by Tribeca (Blue Point) will be worth further study. "He's a nice horse. He's still babyish, he's still green and I don't know how quick he is yet," trainer Robson De Aguiar said. "He's an end-of-April foal and he has a lot to improve. A big, strong horse and I'd say he has a bright future. He has a very good mentality for a Blue...

Japanese and American champion Forever Young will target either the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park on dirt in September or the G1 Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown on turf that same month, according to connections. Depending on which path the son of Real Steel takes, his long-term goal is either an attempt to win the GI Breeders' Cup Classic for a second time and become the second dual winner after Tiznow, or take in the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in early October. No Japanese horse...

Saturday, Navan, Ireland, post time: 15:40, IRISH STALLION FARMS EBF SALSABIL STAKES-G3, €42,000, 3yo, f, 10f 40y Field: Bloom (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), Camino Vino (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), Chasing Paradise (Ire) (Churchill {Ire}), Emmeleia (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), Ice Dancer (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), Minerva (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), Thundering On (GB) (Frankel {GB}). TDN Analysis: Aidan O'Brien trainees Ice Dancer and Minerva both have Group 3 placings to their name, with Ryan Moore opting for the former, who was last seen hitting the board in October's G3 Staffordstown Stud Stakes....

3.05 Navan, Listed, 4yo/up, 14fT SCANDINAVIA (Justify) is the day's big news as he returns for Ballydoyle in a race used for several of their leading stayers such as Kyprios, Order Of St George and Yeats. Last year's St Leger and Goodwood Cup hero meets the Leger fifth Carmers (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), Fiona Carmichael's Queen's Vase winner who remains unexposed over these staying trips.   1.55 Navan, Mdn, 2yo, 5f 180yT WEST OF EDEN (IRE) (No Nay Never) is the chosen representative from Ballydoyle in a maiden that has...

The initial one-dozen entries for the Goffs Punchestown Sale, set for the winner's enclosure after racing on Thursday, April 30, were released on Friday. The sale features 12 lots, 10 of them four- and five-year-old winners, nine of them won on debut. Six of the nine debut winners are geldings, including Aladin Du Rheu (Choeur Du Nord), Chanson Du Jury (Jukebox Jury) and Monjeu De Chaillac (Jeu St Eloi). Of the trio of fillies to win at first asking, All Noise is by Maxios, while Music Maker is by Mahler...

HKJC Horse Race Betting Limited will participate in France's "World Pool by PMU", a partnership launched by its overseas partner Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU), starting with the Prix Ganay World Pool by PMU race on April 26. The initiative further enhances the World Pool branding, created by The Hong Kong Jockey Club (the Club), in continuing to provide racing fans with strong international liquidity. The Club has maintained a close partnership with PMU over the years. Since 2019, the Club and PMU have worked together to offer Win and Place...

You'd have to say the Ka Ying Rising camp is feeling fairly confident, if the reports coming out of Sha Tin are anything to go by two days out from FWD Champions Day. A winner of 19 straight starts, a record for a Hong Kong-trained horse, the son of Shamexpress is coming into the G1 Chairman's Sprint Prize with everything in his favour. Not only is the reigning Hong Kong Horse of the Year aiming for a title defence in Sunday's 1200-metre contest, but connections feel he can get the...

Sandown's "Wild Card" Fillies' Novice Stakes has such a glowing history when it comes to the Oaks that it even guarantees automatic entry to the Epsom Classic and that is where Felicitas (Teofilo) is heading after becoming a TDN Rising Star, Presented by Hagyard. Despite having beaten an interesting yardstick in Allaire (Study Of Man) on debut at Lingfield in December, TBT Racing's 150,000gns Tattersalls October Book 1 purchase drifted to 11-1 for the 10-furlong contest but showed those odds all wrong once Kieran Shoemark committed passing the two pole....

Tricky in the preliminaries but as professional as it gets in the race itself, Shadwell's key three-year-old Raaheeb (Sea The Stars) stamped his class on Friday's G3 Sandown Classic Trial. Smartly away unlike Ballydoyle's 4-6 market-leader Action (Frankel), Baaeed's full-brother who earned TDN Rising Star status on his Ascot debut in September travelled strongly off the early pace under Rossa Ryan and when committed approaching two out had first run on his peers. Staying on powerfully to the line, the 5-1 second favourite who like his other full-sibling Hukum hails...