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Rookie trainer Amy Murphy is excited about the prospect of training her first Grade One winner at Sandown Park on Saturday when the potentially high-class Kalashnikov runs in the G1 Tolworth Hurdle at the Surrey venue. Murphy is a dual-purpose trainer who has enjoyed success with horses including Mercian Prince and Mariah’s Legend but Kalashnikov […]
After years in the wilderness without a creditable Investec Derby challenger, Godolphin look to have a horse capable of serving it up to Aidan O’Brien’s battalion at Epsom Downs on June 3 as Saeed bin Suroor issued a positive bulletin on the well-being of the Betfred Lingfield Derby Trial Best Solution. Ridden by Pat Cosgrave […]
Jockey Adam Kirby is hopeful of a big run from Investec Derby hope Dubai Thunder who will contest the Epsom Classic on just his second career start. Winner of a Newbury maiden earlier this month by ten lengths over a mile and a quarter, the colt made a very positive impression in the way he […]
Newmarket handler Martyn Meade is hopeful that Investec Derby hope Eminent can run a mighty race in the Epsom Classic on June 3 as he steps up in distance to 12 furlongs following a sixth-placed effort in the QIPCO 2000 Guineas at Newmarket earlier this month. The son of Frankel had previously won the Craven […]
A man who always relishes the big occasion, top-class Irish jockey Pat Smullen has had his services called upon by trainers John Gosden and Roger Charlton for the Investec Derby and Oaks respectively which take place this weekend. Smullen, who tasted success in the Epsom Derby last year aboard the Dermot Weld-trained and Aga Khan-owned […]
Godolphin handler Charlie Appleby has decided re-route Prix Saint-Alary winner Sobetsu to Epsom on Friday in which she will run in the Group One Investec Oaks after connections decided to head to Surrey due to the prospect of slightly softer ground being in the filly’s favour. Appleby had originally planned to send the daughter of […]
John Gosden is hopeful that his two runners in today’s Group One Investec Oaks over a mile and a half at Epsom Downs can put in solid displays. Gosden is represented by second-favourite Enable, who is a general 9/2 chance and 9/1 shot Coronet. The former was a ready winner of the Chester Oaks under […]
The Michael Bell-trained Big Orange produced an impressive performance at Sandown on Thursday evening to land the Group Two Henry II Stakes under new jockey Frankie Dettori to set up a tilt at the Ascot Gold Cup at the Royal meeting in June. Sent straight into the lead in his usual fashion by Dettori, the […]
The Aidan O’Brien-trained Minding, one of the finest fillies in the world, and winner of the QIPCO 1000 Guineas and Investec Oaks, has sadly been ruled out a midsummer campaign by the Ballydoyle maestro after he revealed that his star filly has suffered an injury setback which will keep her out of action until the […]
Talented miler Galileo Gold, the authoritative victor of the 2016 QIPCO 2000 Guineas, has been retired by connections after Hugo Palmer’s stable-star suffered an injury sustained during his disappointing performance in the Group One Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes at Newbury this month. The four-year-old was a top-class performer who plundered a very good renewal of […]
The Aidan O’Brien-trained Winter delivered an emphatic performance in the Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas to complete her own version of the Guineas double to emulate stablemate Churchill’s 2000 Guineas double. Well-backed into 8/13 favouritism, the daughter of Galileo was always travelling powerfully in the one mile event under Ryan Moore as stablemate Hydrangea set a […]
The Aidan O’Brien-trained Churchill stormed to success in the Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh on Saturday to complete a British-Irish Guineas double under Ryan Moore. The three-year-old son of Galileo travelled powerfully under Moore in wet conditions and stayed on well in the closing stages despite edging to his right to come clear of […]