No move to Good Friday racing in early thinking for 2014
An early framework document about the racing calendar for 2014 has drawn a wide range of responses from people across the racing industry.
Royal Ascot will have a few novices appearing one way and another over the five days or racing this week.
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Continue reading …Lady Cecil saddles first winners as Ascot sets out plans to honour Sir Henry
June 14, 2013 No Comment
The best way to honour the memory of Sir Henry Cecil is to show that it’s business as usual at his Warren Place stables.
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When hot favourite Dawn Approach finished last in the Derby the word was that he would be given a decent rest and then brought back later in the season. How quickly things can change.
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A short, simple statement on his website announced the news that racing had lost one of its true legends this morning. “It is with great sadness that Warren Place Stables confirms the passing of Sir Henry Cecil earlier this morning,” it read, before the website was taken off line.
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A first time out 2yo horse winning at 50/1 last week was more than enough for Newmarket trainer Phil McEntee to recoup the £400 she cost him and to earn a place in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot next Wednesday.
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There’s a new royal dimension to Ascot next week following a change of name for the Windsor Forest Stakes. This year it becomes the Duke of Cambridge Stakes, and marks a new member of the royals to have a race named after them.
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When trainer Gerard Butler owned up in April to using Sungate, which contains the banned anabolic steroid Stanozolol, he claimed that as many as 100 horses in Newmarket had been treated with the drug. That claim appears less fanciful this morning after veteran trainer Clive Brittain admitted to The Guardian that he too had administered [...]
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Bloodstock agents are salivating at the prospect of snapping up some well-known horses for breeding following the confirmation of rumours that Prince Khalid Abdullah is to trim back his Juddmonte Farms operation.
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Hard to credit it, but next week it’s Royal Ascot week, with five days of top quality racing. Once again there’s a substantial international challenge to the British runners building up, and the first day alone has overseas runners at the head of the market for two of the feature races.
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A later change of jockey, a flurry of support in the betting market and a win for a horse in its first run in a handicap combined to lead to a referral to the British Horseracing Authority for Planetoid and his trainer Jim Best.
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After 12 rides for half a dozen trainers over the course of a week, Frankie Dettori found himself back in the winners’ enclosure. His first success since returning from his six month drugs ban came on Asian Trader for William Haggas, and provided a first opportunity for Dettori to show he could still do a [...]
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Persuader McGrath to hang up his microphone
June 13, 2013 No CommentThe changing face of television racing commentary has taken another turn with the decision by “Aussie Jim” J A McGrath to hang up his microphone. McGrath has spent 40 years describing racing, the last 26 of them here in Britain.
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