Elaine Burke

Karl Burke trainee Half Sovereign (Ten Sovereigns) had bagged four of six prior starts and was rewarded for earlier groundwork with a first black-type success in Monday's G3 Prix Miesque at Chantilly. "She was very good as we weren't convinced she wants really soft ground, although she's got a bit of form with give in it," said Burke. "I don't know what the strength of the race was, but she did it nicely. We couldn't believe at the time we got her for that [12,000gns] price, to be honest. We...

Newsells Park Stud resident A'Ali (Ire) (Society Rock {Ire} became Europe's latest first-crop sire to get off the mark when his Karl Burke-trained daughter Ali Shuffle (GB) shed maiden status at the first attempt tackling five furlongs in Monday's Flat Is Back On Racing TV EBF Fillies' Restricted Novice Stakes at Redcar. 1st-Redcar, £6,850, Nov, 4-7, 2yo, f, 5fT, :59.12, gd. ALI SHUFFLE (GB) (f, 2, A'Ali {Ire}--Always Dreaming {GB}, by Oasis Dream {GB}) broke well and raced in a prominent third from the outset of this debut. Looming large...

Ballyhane Stud were able to tick an important box for their first-crop sire Soldier's Call (GB) on Saturday as his daughter Dawn Charger (Ire) captured Chantilly's G3 Prix Eclipse. Runner-up in ParisLongchamp's G3 Prix d'Arenberg over five furlongs last month, Saif Mohammad Alketbi and Elaine Burke's €40,000 Tatts Ireland September graduate travelled easily for Pierre-Louis Jamin close to the early pace. In front before two out, the 9-2 shot had first run on the strong-staying Laulne (Fr) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) and found the line a neck ahead of that rival to...

Nick Bradley Racing and Elaine Burke's Marshman (GB) (Harry Angel {Ire}--White Rosa {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}) had twice knocked on the door as a juvenile last year and delivered a first black-type triumph, tackling his third such contest, in Monday's G3 Prix Sigy at Chantilly. The Karl Burke trainee debuted with a six-furlong maiden win at Ayr in July, doubling up with an 8 1/2-length rout at Thirsk one month later, before running second in York's Aug. 19 G2 Gimcrack S. and a below-par fifth in Newmarket's Sept. 24 G1...

There was a shock in the opening Listed Chesham S. on Royal Ascot Saturday, as the race's only newcomer Holloway Boy (GB) (Ulysses {Ire}) came through to land the spoils at 40-1. Anchored in rear early by Danny Tudhope, the Karl Burke-trained chestnut stayed on strongly to overhaul the 80-1 shot Pearling Path (Fr) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) in the last 50 yards and gain a length success, with Lakota Sioux (Ire) (Sioux Nation) 1 1/2 lengths away in third. The 11-8 favourite Alfred Munnings (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) was a...

Former Kildangan Stud resident Jungle Cat (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}) became the latest freshman off the mark when the Karl Burke-trained newcomer Miss Jungle Cat (GB), a 60,000gns Tattersalls Somerville yearling, pounced late to snag Saturday's Betway EBF Novice S. going a shade over five furlongs at Musselburgh. In fourth and under pressure at halfway, the 16-5 chance refused to wilt at the business end and kept on relentlessly under a continued drive to deny Explicit (Ire) (Expert Eye {GB}) by 1 1/4 lengths inside the final 100 yards. Miss Jungle...