Raphael Freire

Kevin Philippart de Foy has been appointed by Amo Racing to be the retained trainer at the operation's Freemason Lodge. The Belgian-born Philippart de Foy started his career in Newmarket in 2020 and has trained just shy of 200 winners on the Flat in Britain in the interim. He celebrated his best season in 2023 when his stable had 61 winners and won over £860,000 in prize-money, highlighted by the success of Inquisitively in the G3 Cornwallis Stakes. Meanwhile, Philippart de Foy's appointment will see Raphael Freire, who has been...

Kia Joorabchian has submitted an offer to buy Freemason Lodge, the long-term base of retiring trainer Sir Michael Stoute, the Amo Racing founder told the Nick Luck Daily Podcast on Tuesday. Stoute brought a training career spanning more than five decades to an end when he saddled his final runner at Yarmouth last week and Joorabchian has now confirmed his ambition to purchase the yard in Newmarket from which Stoute sent out the majority of his 16 British Classic winners. Joorabchian, whose spending spree at Book 1 of the Tattersalls...