THE upwardly mobile Addeybb heads a strong entry for the £350,000 Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on May 19. The race is run over the straight mile and has retained 25 contenders following yesterday’s scratchings deadline. The race is the showpiece of Newbury’s Flat season and one of the world’s top 100 Group One races …[Read More]
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Feb 2018
Famous racehorse owners and winners
by JACK ROSE OWNING a horse can be a lucrative business, provided you invest in the right horse and know which trainer will get the best out of your horse. Many footballers invest their earnings in horses in the hope that they can increase their wealth, and while some have been successful, others have suffered …[Read More]
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Sep 2017
Al Wukair could spring surprise on British Champions Day
by JOHN ANDERSON THE Flat season is coming to an end but not before British Champions Day at Ascot, where the leading horses in each division will compete against each other one last time before they are put away for the winter and given a break. Here are three horses who could finish their campaign …[Read More]
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Jul 2017
Six to follow at Glorious Goodwood 2017
TWO festivals for the price of one this week with both Galway and Glorious Goodwood 2017 kicking off on Tuesday. Goodwood may not start off quite so Glorious with the ground currently on the slow side of good but the weather generally looks fine for the five days of equine excellence. The obvious highlight is …[Read More]
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Jul 2017
2017 Melbourne Cup: The holy grail for British trainers
THE Melbourne Cup is the holy grail for so many British trainers. The “race that stops a nation” has never been won by a UK trainer despite the best efforts of several down the years. Ireland have already won it twice courtesy of Dermot Weld with Vintage Crop and Media Puzzle while France have also …[Read More]
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Jul 2017
Decorated Knight the value in 2017 Coral-Eclipse
IT’S simmering nicely into a typically fitting renewal but the 2017 Coral-Eclipse at Sandown has a really open feel to it this year. The clash of the age groups should reveal plenty about the strength – or lack of it – of this season’s crop of three-year-olds. The jury is still out on that especially …[Read More]
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Jun 2017
Barney Roy targets more Group One glory in Sussex Stakes
by JOHN SINCLAIR Barney Roy produced one of the upsets of Royal Ascot when he beat Churchill in the St James’s Palace Stakes last week. The three year old gained revenge for his defeat in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket earlier in the campaign as he impressed in the one-mile contest at the Berkshire racecourse. …[Read More]
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Jun 2017
Jack Hobbs heads Prince of Wales’s Stakes betting
JACK Hobbs, pictured, is among 17 horses left in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot. John Gosden’s five-year-old has hardly raced since his three-year-old campaign when he won the Irish Derby. But he showed he was as good as ever when winning at Meydan in the Dubai Sheema Classic. John Gosden also has …[Read More]
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May 2017
Memory Lane: Fleet: 1967 1000 Guineas winner
by GRAHAM OLIVER Noel Murless saddled six winners of the 1000 Guineas: Fleet was number three, winning in 1967. She was a bay filly by the unraced Never Say Die stallion Immortality. Her dam, Review, was by Panorama, who had won the Coventry and Champagne Stakes during a seven-race unbeaten two-year-old career. Besides Fleet, Review …[Read More]
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Apr 2017
Memory Lane: Tudor Minstrel
by GRAHAM OLIVER WHO was the greatest 2000 Guineas winner ever? Was it Tudor Minstrel, was it Brigadier Gerard, or was it Frankel? Of course, we will never know, but we can surmise. This short piece is about making the case for Tudor Minstrel… Foaled in 1944, Tudor Minstrel was a brown colt by the …[Read More]
