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Legatissimo (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) faces just 10 rivals as she bids to become only the second filly since 1990 to complete the G1 1000 Guineas-Investec Oaks double at Epsom on Friday, but has the potentially tricky stall one to overcome to do so. Ryan Moore faces the age-old dilemma on Michael Tabor’s May 3 Newmarket...
California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) pleased connections in his racecourse gallop at Ascot on Thursday but original jockey plans to have Frankie Dettori take the mount at Royal Ascot have been shelved. Although Dettori partnered Art Sherman’s star over seven furlongs of the Ascot turf it appears the Italian will be required to partner the John...
Sir Michael Stoute last enjoyed success in the G1 Investec Oaks in 1987, but in Crystal Zvezda (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) he has arguably one of his best chances in the interim and hopes are high that Freemason Lodge will be in celebratory mood on Friday evening. Sir Evelyn de Rothschild’s homebred is a half-sister to the proven...
John Gosden holds a significantly strong hand in Saturday’s G1 Investec Derby at Epsom, with Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) and Jack Hobbs (GB) (Halling) currently first and second favorites for the blue riband, but the trainer was keeping an eye on the possibly volatile weather forecast as he pondered the best option for the latter. Godolphin’s acquisition...
The final day of the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale saw the best kept till last as a fine colt by Foxwedge (Aus) (Fastnet Rock (Aus) stole the show. Offered by Eliza Park International, as agent for the Heinrich Bloodstock Unreserved Dispersal Sale, the colt, lot 2057 was knocked down to the powerful Hawkes Racing operation for...
Multiple Group 1 winner Al Kazeem (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) has picked up an injury that will keep him on the sidelines for the time being. The 7-year-old entire recently won a strong renewal of the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup at The Curragh and connections were understandably keen to target the G1 Prince Of Wales’s S. at Royal...
by Barry Weisbord Last Thursday, world traveler/trainer extrordinaire Mike de Kock got me thinking. While walking his Kentucky Derby-bound Mubtaahij toward his morning gallop at Churchill Downs, he turned to me and said, “I knew this was big, but I really had no idea how big.” He was right. We have become very gun shy,...
By Gai Waterhouse It is just over 10,500 miles from the training center at Newmarket, England to Tulloch Lodge Randwick in the inner Eastern suburbs of Sydney. I was asked by a leading English trainer why us Australian trainers don’t phone up our English peers and seek feedback on our imported horses and their previous...
About two-and-a-half hours after American Pharoah won the 2015 Kentucky Derby, a mare we own in partnership lay down and foaled a colt. Another dream began. It is a scene repeated every night in foaling barns during breeding season. On wobbly, spindly legs they stand for the first time. As they do, breeders dream. Ahmed...
Having surrendered his unbeaten record to Silverwave (Fr) (Silver Frost {Ire}) in the G3 Prix la Force here Apr. 6, Khalid Abdullah’s Epicuris (GB) (Rail Link {GB}) bids to restore his air of supremacy in Tuesday’s G2 Prix Greffulhe at Saint-Cloud. Taken on for the lead last time and tending to over-race as a result, last year’s...
QIPCO 2000 GUINEAS S.-G1, £498,750, NMT, 5-2, 3yo, c/f, 8fT, 1:37.55, gd/fm. 1–GLENEAGLES (IRE), 126, c, 3, by Galileo (Ire) 1st Dam: You’resothrilling (GSW-Eng & Ire, $224,243), by Storm Cat 2nd Dam: Mariah’s Storm, by Rahy 3rd Dam: Immense, by Roberto O-Michael Tabor, Susan Magnier & Derrick Smith; B-You’resothrilling Syndicate (Ire). T-Aidan O’Brien; J-Ryan Moore. £282,841....
Giovanni Canaletto (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), a 14-1 shot for the G1 Epsom Derby for trainer Aidan O’Brien and the Coolmore partners, has been ruled out of Thursday’s G3 Chester Vase by his conditioner after returning a dirty scope Monday. “Unfortunately, Giovanni Canaletto didn’t scope clean this morning and won’t be traveling to Chester,” O’Brien told Racing...