Composing

Trainer Aidan O'Brien is hopeful multiple Group 1 winner Precise (Starspangledbanner) will still make the starting gate for the G1 Betfred 1000 Guineas on May 3. A winner of four of her five starts, she is on the recovery trail after spiking a temperature a few weeks ago. "She's in good form, she had a temperature two or three weeks ago and we had to just back off her and slowly pick her back up," said O'Brien of his 2025 G1 Moyglare Stud Stakes and G1 Fillies Mile heroine, who...

by Tom Frary and Brian Sheerin Joseph O'Brien has nominated Group 2 scorer Green Sense (Starman) as being the best of his five-pronged attack on Saturday's Goffs Million but admitted his bid for back-to-back renewals of the lucrative prize will not be easy and labelled this year's line-up the strongest he has ever seen.  Dylan Browne McMonagle has predictably sided with Green Sense, who was so good in the Goffs Prix Robert Papin back in July and was last seen finishing third behind Power Blue in the Keeneland Phoenix Stakes....

Ryusei Sakai is savouring a second tilt at the G1 Royal Bahrain Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown on Saturday, with last year's third Shin Emperor (Siyouni) featuring among 12 horses standing their ground after Tuesday's confirmation stage. Japanese raider Shin Emperor, trained by Yoshito Yahagi, delighted connections in an early workout on Tuesday, with Sakai saying afterwards, "He worked this morning on the Curragh Racecourse with his partner horse and he felt very well, very comfortable. I was very happy with the gallop. He is a more mature and stronger horse...

We've seen ebullient yearling markets in Japan, America and France so far this year and now Britain enters the fray with what for many is a favourite sale of the year.  No matter how long it has now been Goffs UK, the sales company formerly known as Doncaster Bloodstock Sales (DBS) will always be Donny. More confusingly for those who are not aware of its history, it will always have its roots in the Scottish Borders rather than Yorkshire, but that's a story for another day. Donny is Donny, and...

Thursday, Leopardstown, post time: 18:27, SAUDI CUP SILVER FLASH STAKES-G3, €36,000, 2yo, f, 7f 57yT Field: Balantina (Ire) (Ten Sovereigns {Ire}), Brownstown (GB) (Cracksman {GB}), Composing (Ire) Wootton Bassett {GB}), Red Autumn (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), Skydance (GB) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}), Smexy (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}). TDN Verdict: Aidan O'Brien has farmed this and Composing could easily be his 15th winner after her success in a Curragh maiden that is working out well. Skydance has shaped well in two starts over shorter, with the latter being a third in...

Wednesday, Naas, Ireland, post time: 17:37, ARQANA IRISH EBF MARWELL STAKES-Listed, €30,000, 2yo, f, 5f 0y Field: Cardiff By The Sea (Ire) (St Mark's Basilica {Fr}), Duskaura (Ire) (Twilight Son {GB}), Havana Anna (GB) (Havana Grey {GB}), Ipanema Queen (Ire) (Sands Of Mali {Fr}), Lam Yai (Ire) (Lucky Vega {Ire}), Magny Cours (Ire) (Awtaad {Ire}), Solana Rose (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}), Wateen (Ire) (Profitable {Ire}). TDN Verdict: Fozzy Stack trainee Cardiff By The Sea gets a third opportunity of shedding maiden status in this open edition. She encountered Charles Darwin when...