The odds may have been prohibitive but it was pleasing to see Top 40 entry Bowmark regain the winning thread in a valuable novice stakes on the final day of York's Dante Festival on Friday. The John & Thady Gosden trained colt had run well when finishing a close second in the Listed Buradon Stakes at Newcastle on Good Friday. Officially rated 103, the son of Kingman's task was simplified when ...
While the three days on the Roodeye last week failed to set the pulse racing, the action on the Knavesmire at York over the last couple of days has been on a different level. Group 1 winner Inisherin got his career firmly back on track with victory in the Group 2 Duke of York Stakes on Wednesday. Ryan Moore took over in the saddle for the first time and Kevin Ryan's stable star got the better of F...
You can't keep a good man down for long with normal service resumed for Aidan O'Brien and the Ballydoyle outfit. Following the disappointing performances in the Guineas at Newmarket last weekend, Ireland's champion trainer cleaned up at Chester with 4 winners from only 6 runners, including all the Classic trials, and then did likewise at Lingfield on Saturday (2 winners from 3 runners). Twenty fou...
James Owen once again proved he is one of the best dual purpose trainers in the business with his high-class hurdler East India Dock winning the Chester Cup on the final day of their May meeting. Rated 147 over timber following a couple of Grade 2 victories before being placed in the Triumph Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March, the Golden Horn gelding took advantage of a lenient looking rat...
The Chester May meeting got underway on Wednesday with Aidan O'Brien dominating the Classic trials. Unfortunately, the Top 40 Prospects drawing a blank. While one ran well in the Chester Vase, the other two were disappointing following slow starts and immediately forfeiting favourable draws. Even allowing for their below par efforts, I must confess I struggled to get enthusiastic about Wednesday's...
Rising star Ed Bethell nominated the Listed Spring Trophy at Haydock (10th May) as a likely early season target for the progressive Paborus on page 70 of Ahead On The Flat. The four year old produced a career best on his reappearance when winning a conditions stakes at Thirsk in decisive fashion. Raised eight pounds since, the gelded son of Recoletus has won 4 of his 6 career starts and is now rat...
Charlie Appleby ran sixteen horses over the three days at Newmarket's Guineas Festival and headed back to Moulton Paddocks on Sunday with 6 winners, including the 1000 and 2000 Guineas double. Twenty four hours after Ruling Court's thrilling victory in the first colts Classic on Saturday, stablemate Desert Flower justified strong market support by providing his trainer with his first win in the 10...
The first Classic of the season, the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket, was won by the Godolphin owned Ruling Court and, in doing so, providing Charlie Appleby with his third win in the one mile event in the last four years. The Justify colt, who cost €2,300,000 at the breeze-ups, had finished third behind The Lion In Winter in the Group 3 Acomb Stakes at York last summer before winning impressively ...
The three day Guineas Festival at Newmarket got underway on Friday with Andrew Balding continuing his tremendous form with a treble, including Bellum Justum in the Group 2 Jockey Club Stakes. Zgharta set the ball rolling in the opening ten furlongs fillies' maiden with a narrow win under Hollie Doyle. Placed in her first two starts, including at the Craven meeting last month, she raced keenly earl...
Majborough got his chasing career firmly back on track with a dominate display in the Grade 1 Barberstown Castle Novice Chase. The former Triumph Hurdlle winner lost his unbeaten record over fences when a close third in the Arkle Trophy at Cheltenham in March. Despite showing a tendency to jump his left, Mark Walsh's mount outclassed his five opponents galloping them into the ground. Leading at th...
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