Frankel

5.07 Dundalk, Mdn, 2yo, 5f (AWT) NEW YORKER (No Nay Never) was a withdrawal from his intended debut at The Curragh last week, but now lines up in the maiden that Aidan O'Brien used for past stars Caravaggio and Blackbeard. A son of the Cheveley Park Stakes heroine Fairyland (Kodiac) from the family of the multiple Group 1 winner Dream Ahead, he faces six peers on what could be a first step towards Royal Ascot.   6.15 Dundalk, Mdn, 3yo/up, 6f (AWT) HINDER (GB) (Expert Eye {GB}) is a big...

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-bred horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Sunday's Observations features a Frankel son of Bateel. 1.58 ParisLongchamp, Debutantes, 3yo, c/g, 10 1/2fT THE ODYSSEY (FR) (Frankel {GB}) is a son of Al Asayl Bloodstock's Prix Vermeille heroine Bateel (Dubawi), who is already responsible for the G2 Prix d'Harcourt winner and Prix Ganay and Grosser Dallmayr-Preis runner-up...

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-bred horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Saturday's Observations features a half-sister to Puerto Rico (Wootton Bassett). 2.20 Cork, Mdn, 2yo, f, 5fT NEVERMINDTHERAIN (IRE) (No Nay Never) is Ballydoyle's first juvenile filly to appear in 2026 and bids to become the stable's first winner in this category following Friday's near-miss with Confucius. A half-sister to...

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-bred horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Friday's Observations features the first juvenile runners from Ballydoyle. 1.22 Curragh, Mdn, 2yo, 5fT NEW YORKER (No Nay Never) is one of two by the sire from Ballydoyle in the line-up as Aidan O'Brien sends out his first juveniles in 2026. Interestingly, both him and the 1.7million gns Tattersalls...

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-bred horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Wednesday's Observations features a relative of Thunder Snow. 7.10 Kempton, Cond, 3yo, 8f (AWT) HIDDEN FORCE (GB) (Frankel {GB}) is the chosen one from Charlie Appleby's armada for this important "European Road To The Kentucky Derby" Conditions Stakes won in the last two years by the stable's future stars...

An exciting new chapter is being written at Coolmore Stud with the news that the powerful operation has been granted an ownership licence by the JRA [Japanese Racing Association], meaning it will be represented in that jurisdiction for the first time by two exceptionally-bred runners by Frankel. Four-time leading JRA trainer Mitsu Nakauchida has been entrusted with a Frankel colt out of dual Group 1-winning sprinter Marsha (Acclamation). Meanwhile, a Frankel filly out of Shadow Hunter (Arcano) has already been named Snowscape and is registered in training with Nakauchida. The...

A mistake made by the organisers of the Racing League was to underestimate just how much certain racing colours resonate with those watching the action. All of us who have followed racing over the years will have owners and trainers we like to get behind. Even when scanning down a race card in the paper each morning, certain sets of silks act as an automatic signpost as to the potential quality of the races to come.   It is very clear the regard in which Robert Sangster was held during...

Day 1 of the 2026 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale got off to a strong start, with top lots by I Am Invincible, Snitzel, Frankel, Zoustar and Extreme Choice all drawing keen interest. It didn't take long for the session to produce a seven-figure result, with Lot 59, a striking Frankel colt, selling to Coolmore for a$2 million, as buyers including Ciaron Maher Bloodstock, Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott, Glentree Thoroughbreds, and Mark Player quickly made their presence felt. At A Glance Three horses fetched seven-figure sums on Day...

Few will forget the moment that Sea The Stars entered the history books as one of the true greats when adding the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe to his list of Group 1 successes through a faultless three-year-old season. It is therefore appropriate that his son Daryz should prevail in that same race, sealing the French sires' championship for his sire, whose 20th birthday is looming.  In netting just over €3m, the Aga Khan Studs homebred Daryz was the highest earner for Sea The Stars in 2025 but he was...

Galileo and Dubawi, two titans of the sport whose fates have been so entwined for the past two decades that the marrying of their superior bloodlines to one day give us a champion sire was perhaps as inevitable as it is satisfying for us bloodstock nuts. On 12 occasions, in 2008 and then every year between 2010 and 2020, Galileo topped the end-of-year sires' table in Britain and Ireland. On four of those occasions Dubawi filled the runner-up spot, before the Darley stalwart finally enjoyed his day in the sun...

For this first of four parts of our annual Value Sires series in Europe, we will be dealing with the elite tier of stallions standing for a fee in excess of £50,000, which is approximately €57,000. The names in this bracket don't change that much, except for when a grandee retires or a young upstart bounces his way in. In 2025, we lost an increasingly prolific member of this cohort when Wootton Bassett died in Australia from pneumonia at the age of 17. The consequences of his passing will doubtless...

Right arms and legs were made to be given for the Tattersalls December Foal Sale-topping Frankel colt who, at 1.15 million gns to Coolmore Stud, became the most expensive foal sold anywhere in Europe this year.  Like two old gunslingers facing off at dawn, MV Magnier took his position at the back of the cage while his opposition and eventual underbidder, Juddmonte's Simon Mockridge, sat almost directly opposite the Coolmore posse in the seats close to the exit of the ring.  Flanked by Barry Mahon, Mockridge did not go down...