Andre Fabre

Saturday's Belmont Stakes is the last of nine top-level events on the weekend and the final of the six highly anticipated Grade I contests scheduled for a bumper card at Saratoga, short, medium and long on both the turf and the main track. A top-quality field of seven is set to face the starter in the GI Hill 'n' Dale Metropolitan Handicap, for which 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Nysos (Nyquist) is the 9-5 morning-line favorite and 126-pound topweight in the 'Win and You're In' qualifier for the GI Breeders'...

A total of 22 entries remain at the latest forfeit stage in Sunday's G1 Prix du Jockey Club, among them Andre Fabre's Komorebi. Owned by Godolphin, the bay was second to Rayif (Sea The Moon) in the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains on May 10. The colt, by Pinatubo, would be the fifth winner of the iconic race for his 80-year-old trainer who previously celebrated victories with Peintre Celebre (1997), Lope De Vega (2010), Intello (2013), and New Bay in 2015. "He ran a really nice race and he will...

Ballydoyle's Precise (Starspangledbanner) will face 18 peers in Sunday's G1 Betfred 1000 Guineas at Newmarket, with Ryan Moore set to partner the Moyglare Stud Stakes and Fillies' Mile winner for the first time. She is drawn two for the mile Classic, with one of her chief rivals Venetian Sun (Starman) next door in stall one furthest away from the stands' rail. Tony Bloom and Ian McAleavy's Prix Morny winner is one of two in the race for Karl Burke, with her regular rider Clifford Lee maintaining the partnership. Burke's other runner...

Andre Fabre has snapped up champion jockey Oisin Murphy to ride My Highness (Ghaiyyath) in the Betfred 1,000 Guineas on Sunday. Fabre, who last won the fillies' Classic in 2014 with Miss France, moved quickly once he knew Murphy would be available. The Godolphin-owned My Highness won three of her four outings as a juvenile, including a Group 2 at Deauville. She was beaten in the Prix Imprudence earlier this month, but Fabre was not too concerned by that and can point to the fact Miss France also suffered defeat...

Last year's G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe hero Daryz (Sea The Stars) is set to face five rivals in Sunday's G1 Prix Ganay World Pool by PMU at ParisLongchamp after declarations for the 10 1/2-furlong contest were confirmed Friday morning. The Aga Khan Studs homebred is in fine fettle ahead of his seasonal debut according to Francis Graffard, who has ambitious plans for the four-year-old further down the line. "He's in fantastic shape and looks amazing," the trainer reported earlier this week. "I started working him some time ago...

Veteran trainer Andre Fabre last won ParisLongchamp's G3 Prix de Fontainebleau with Persian King in 2019 and he notched a record-extending 11th edition after Godolphin's Poulains and Jockey Club entry Komorebi (Pinatubo) gained revenge for his G3 Prix La Rochette defeat by Nighttime (Wootton Bassett) in Sunday's renewal. "He's a fighter and I'm delighted," declared Fabre. "He's just like his sire in that he's not a morning glory, but a nice trier. He doesn't show very much in the mornings, just that he's nice. He hasn't grown much, but has...

Andre Fabre nominee Segall (Sottsass) had failed in three starts since attaining TDN Rising Star status at Saint-Cloud in June, but bounced back from a reversal in last month's Listed Prix Maurice Caillault to secure the trainer's record-extending tenth renewal in Sunday's G3 Prix La Force at ParisLongchamp. Patiently ridden at the tail of the six-runner field for most of the nine-furlong contest, the 89-10 chance inched ever closer in the home straight and weaved a charmed passage between rivals inside the final furlong to deny fellow Rising Star and...

Ghaiyyath is still awaiting a major winner in Britain and Ireland but he is compiling an interesting record in other parts of the world, including Australia, and to his G1 VRC Derby winner Observer was added Saturday's G2 Tulloch Stakes winner Storm Leopard. Most exciting of Ghaiyyath's second European crop last year was Godolphin's My Highness, who went unbeaten through four starts for Andre Fabre, culminating in an impressive victory in the G2 Sumbe Prix du Calvados last August.  Notably, amid a flurry of French Classic entries for the Fabre...

By Alan Carasso & Adam Houghton Sunday's Longines Hong Kong International Races meeting at Sha Tin Racecourse attracted each of its four defending champions from 2024, and when the dust had settled on the event, three of those four--Romantic Warrior (Acclamation), Ka Ying Rising (Shamexpress) and Voyage Bubble (Deep Field)--successfully repeated, each spectacularly in their own way. The fourth of them, Giavellotto (Mastercraftsman), was forced to settle for a gallant second to G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe third Sosie (Sea The Stars). "To see a horse in Romantic Warrior...

The connections of the half-dozen European raiders among a field of 11 for Sunday's HK$26-million Longines Hong Kong Vase (2400m) will have been mostly pleased with the outcome of the barrier draw, which was held in the state-of-the-art parade ring at Sha Tin Racecourse Thursday morning. Resolute Racing and Baron Philip Von Ullman's Goliath (Adlerflug) makes a second trip across to Hong Kong in the space of eight months, having finished a disappointing ninth to Tastiera (Jpn) (Satono Crown {Jpn}) at a fairly short price in the G1 FWD QE...

A name has recently appeared among the ranks of trainers in France which is both familiar and new at the same time. Lavinia Fabre, the daughter of Andre and Elisabeth Fabre, wasted little time in securing her first winner with just her second runner at Saint-Cloud on October 16, but her stint as a sole trainer will be short-lived as the 36-year-old has plans to embark on a partnership with her renowned father later this year. To a degree, Fabre's official arrival on the racing scene was entirely predictable. Both...

Conditions were desperate at Deauville on Wednesday and while there won't be any prizes handed out for time performances Prince Faisal's homebred filly Sindalah (Dubawi) shaped with promise on her winning debut. Allowed her own way in front under Maxime Guyon in the mile debutantes race for fillies, the Andre Fabre-trained half-sister to the international heavyweight Mishriff (Make Believe) held on to prevail by a head from Flash Girl (The Grey Gatsby). A descendant of the Prix de Diane heroine and stellar broodmare Rafha, the winner returned at 4-1. The Aga Khan Studs...