Golden Ace

Deuce Again, the dam of this year's G1 Champion Hurdle heroine Golden Ace, has been added to the Goffs December NH Sale, which takes place from December 8-11. She will be offered in foal to Overbury Stud's Golden Horn, who is also the sire of Jeremy Scott's high-class mare. The 14-year-old daughter of Dubawi is owned by Meon Valley Stud and will be consigned at Goffs by Stephen Kemble Bloodstock. The Champion Hurdle marked a second consecutive Cheltenham Festival success for Golden Ace, who also won the G2 Mares Novices'...

A total of 931 lots have been catalogued for the Tattersalls July Sale, which takes place from July 8-10 and features consignments from leading owner-breeders including Godolphin, Juddmonte and Shadwell Estate Company. The full catalogue is available to view here. Potential highlights among the breeding stock catalogued include Triggers Broom (Arcano), the dam of Group 1-winning young sire Supremacy, who will be offered in foal to Chaldean by the National Stud. Listed winner Miaharris (Zoustar) will be offered in foal to City Of Troy by Baroda Stud, while black-type producer...

We're off. Well, sort of. In a manner reminiscent of the sputtering start to the Flat turf season, Seven Days returns this week but is immediately taking a short break before promising to be back in time for the Lincoln and the Brocklesby. So, for those of you still in a post-Cheltenham/St Patrick's Day slump, here's a little look back on the week that was. We'll mention Cheltenham only briefly here to reiterate the point that we may well see the 100/1 Triumph Hurdle winner Poniros (GB) back in action...

CHELTENHAM, UK -- It is a rare thing for a trainer almost to apologise for winning a race, particularly the biggest race of his career, but observers of Jeremy Scott over the years would perhaps have expected nothing less. A man of exemplary manners, he would struggle to take pleasure in triumph in the face of other people's disasters, and there was drama and dismay aplenty in the G1 Unibet Champion Hurdle, won by Scott with the plucky little mare Golden Ace (GB) (Golden Horn {GB}). "It probably wasn't the...

On the morning of Sunday, June 7, 2015, a small gathering at John Gosden's Clarehaven Stables celebrated the previous day's Derby one-two of stable-mates Golden Horn (GB) and Jack Hobbs (GB). The two colts posed either side of their trainer, with their regular riders, the late Michael Curran and Taffy Williams, proudly at their sides. Golden Horn would end the season as Horse of the Year, thanks to his subsequent triumphs in the Eclipse, Irish Champion Stakes and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Only the fillies Arabian Queen (GB) and...