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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 daughter of Frankel and multiple group winner Heartache. 1.20 Curragh, Mdn, €20,000, 2yo, f, 7fT SIGNORA (IRE) (Frankel {GB}) lines up as Ballydoyle's first string in this maiden won in 2020 by their Oaks heroine Snowfall, bidding to put her Albany flop behind her. Third...

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 a daughter of a Group 1 winner. 5.15 Newmarket, Novice, £10,000, 2yo, f, 7fT QUADRILLION (GB) (Kingman {GB}) is the second foal out of Juddmonte's G1 Fillies' Mile heroine Quadrilateral (Frankel) and a key member of Harry Charlton's two-year-old crew. From the Hasili dynasty, the homebred...

   In this series, the TDN takes a look at notable successes of European-based sires in North America. This week's column is highlighted by the victory of Sigh No More in the Boiling Springs Stakes at Monmouth. Boiling Springs Stakes To Sigh No More Heider Family Stables' Sigh No More ran out a 1 1/2-length winner of Monmouth Park's Boiling Springs Stakes at the end of last month (video). Conditioned by Brendan Walsh, the daughter of Starspangledbanner was making her second US start. Bred by Barronstown Stud out of the...

In this series, the TDN takes a look at notable successes of European-based sires in North America. This week's column is highlighted by the victory of Nitti in the San Juan Capistrano Stakes.  Make Believe Brings Up A Santa Anita Double Make Believe's Nitti captured the GIII San Juan Capistrano Stakes at Santa Anita for trainer Leonard Powell on June 15 (video). It was a first black-type win for the 4-year-old gelding who races for Innergy Racing Corp, Zephyr Racing and Sonny Pais. Bred by John Walsh, Jerry O'Brien and the...

Grade 3 winner Hollow Games (Beat Hollow) is one of 103 lots catalogued for the upcoming Tattersalls Online July Sale, which was released on Wednesday. The sale begins at 11 a.m., Tuesday July 1 and concludes beginning at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, July 2. Also placed twice at the highest level, the bay is one of three consigned by Gordon Elliott's Cullentra House Stables. Henry de Bromhead consigns the Grade 1-placed Life In The Park (Walk In The Park), a winner over both hurdles and fences and multiple black-type placed....

Juddmonte's Kalpana (Study Of Man) is among 15 fillies remaining in contention for Saturday's G1 Paddy Power Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh. She could take on Coolmore's Oaks runner-up Whirl (Wootton Bassett) and Estrange (Night Of Thunder), Cheveley Park Stud's emerging force in the fillies' middle-distance ranks.  "That's the current plan," Juddmonte's racing manager Barry Mahon said of Kalpana on Tuesday morning. "We're just waiting on the forfeits today to see what's in the race and we'll check on France [Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud] tomorrow but Plan A seems...

It has been a strangely discombobulating week in some respects. It started in Westminster last Monday with the All-Party Parliamentary Group issuing its stark warning of the triple threat to the industry posed by potential betting duty harmonisation, affordability checks and an overdue Levy reform. This came on the back of an industry update in Newmarket the previous week at which the TBA chairman Philip Newton warned of a potential catastrophic collapse in the supply chain of young Thoroughbreds in Britain. Then, stepping through the golden gates of Royal Ascot,...

Breeders Bobby and Honora Donworth on what an Irish 2,000 Guineas triumph means to the team at Roundhill Stud Relief rather than unbridled joy was the first emotion that came to proud breeders Bobby and Honora Donworth, who have opened up on what they have labelled as a 'rollercoaster' of emotion in the build-up to Field Of Gold's emphatic triumph in Saturday's Irish 2,000 Guineas.  The team at Roundhill Stud in County Limerick, one of the most esteemed nurseries of equine talent Ireland has to offer, admitted to having been...

Poor old Kingman, eh? It was his bad luck to pitch up at Banstead Manor Stud in the year that all the fuss was about Frankel's first yearlings. Much of the interest in the intervening decade has been about Frankel, too, but that hasn't stopped Kingman laying down his own markers in achievement at stud, highlighted this past weekend with a one-two in the Irish 2,000 Guineas via Field Of Gold and Cosmic Year.  They are not by any means his first star performers - Persian King first held that...

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 a daughter of multiple Group 1 winner Wild Illusion (Dubawi). 2.55 Ascot, Mdn, £15,000, 3yo, f, 9f212yT SPIRITED STYLE (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) is one of two newcomers for Godolphin in this fascinating affair and the Charlie Appleby-trained daughter of Dubawi's triple Group 1 heroine...

NEWMARKET, UK -- Galopin Des Champs, you say? He was yesterday's news. Today, and for the next few days at least, it's all about the Guineas. And what better way to start a day bursting with warmth and shiny promise from dawn than by watching the favourite for the Betfred 2,000 Guineas stride up Warren Hill not once but twice.  Field Of Gold (Ire), in partnership with John and Thady Gosden's talented apprentice Luke Catton, had two short, easy canters on Thursday morning. His main work is done, a lot...

Few breeding operations can boast two Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winners among the broodmare band but Juddmonte Farms has both Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) and Bluestocking (GB) (Camelot {GB}), with the former set for a trip to France to be covered by Siyouni (Fr) this season. Bluestocking, the champion older mare in Europe last year, will stay closer to home to visit Dubawi (Ire), while her dam Emulous (GB) (Dansili {GB}) will return to Camelot.  Among Juddmonte's newly retired mares set to visit Frankel are Whitebeam (GB) (Caravaggio), twice...