It is hard to imagine the HKJC World Pool Lennox Stakes without Kinross and Ralph Beckett’s evergreen stalwart is back in search of a third victory at the Qatar Goodwood Festival. The popular eight-year-old has been a standing dish in this contest on the Sussex Downs, taking home the first prize in 2021 and 2023. […]
Royal Ascot scorer Humidity will attempt to turn up the heat on his rivals when he puts both his unbeaten record and growing reputation on the line in the Coral Vintage Stakes at Goodwood on Tuesday. Andrew Balding’s son of Ulysses excelled from the front when winning the Chesham Stakes and although the form of […]
King George hero Calandagan appears far from certain to line up in the Juddmonte International at York next month, with trainer Francis-Henri Graffard suggesting he could keep his powder dry for major targets on foreign soil later in the year. Fresh from securing a belated first Group One victory in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, […]
Former jockey Norman Williamson led the tributes to Edward O’Grady, who died on Sunday at the age of 75, hailing him “a remarkable trainer and a remarkable man”. Williamson rode a whole host of big-race winners for O’Grady, including his last Cheltenham Festival success in the saddle aboard Back In Front in the 2003 Supreme […]
Edward O’Grady, one of the greats of Irish National Hunt racing, died on Sunday evening at the age of 75, his family has announced. O’Grady trained a whole host of top-class horses over the course of his long and illustrious career and for a long time was the leading Irish trainer at the Cheltenham Festival […]
Latest News and Features Monday Musings: Wokism Make Me King crowned Pomfret hero Coppull on course for Richmond test Spencer happy to play waiting game with ‘exciting’ Gold Digger Appleby targets winning farewell for Desert Flower Tornado goes down a storm in Munich Naas triumph has Sky Majesty camp thinking big Dubai Future to renew […]
The globetrotting Make Me King made the most of having his sights lowered in the Sky Bet Pomfret Stakes at Pontefract. Formerly trained by Andre Fabre before being snapped up by Wathnan Racing and joining Hamad Al Jehani, the five-year-old has since been campaigned in Qatar, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and France, with his sole previous […]
Clive Cox is relishing the opportunity to unleash Coventry Stakes third Coppull in the Markel Richmond Stakes, as he seeks a third success in the Qatar Goodwood Festival contest. The Lambourn handler landed back-to-back victories of the Group Two event with Supremacy and Golden Horde respectively in 2019 and 2020 and has bided his time […]
Albany Stakes sixth Gold Digger might not be seen again this season, having suffered a setback following her promising run at Royal Ascot. An impressive winner at Yarmouth on debut, Richard Spencer’s exciting daughter of Starman was not disgraced when beaten just over four lengths at the Royal meeting and that form looks strong, with […]
Charlie Appleby is keen to find his 1000 Guineas heroine Desert Flower a suitable opportunity to go out on a high ahead of her planned retirement at the end of the season. The Moulton Paddocks handler enjoyed a Classic double at Newmarket in early May, with Desert Flower’s success preceded by victory for Ruling Court […]
Tornado Alert claimed German Group One glory for Saeed bin Suroor and Oisin Murphy with a clear-cut success in the Grosser Dallmayr-Preis in Munich. Although without a victory in three previous starts this season, the Too Darn Hot colt had performed admirably in finishing fourth in the 2000 Guineas and sixth in the Derby, before […]
Sky Majesty could be given a second chance in Group One company before the season is out following her Listed success at Naas on Wednesday. The three-year-old daughter of Blue Point won both a Group Three and a Group Two as a juvenile and was not too far away from the action when eighth in […]
Gold Cup third Dubai Future will bid to provide trainer Saeed bin Suroor with a fourth victory in the Al Shaqab Goodwood Cup on Tuesday. Previously successful with Kayf Tara (1999), Schiaparelli (2009) and Cavalryman (2014), the veteran trainer will this year saddle a nine-year-old who has split his time between England and Middle East […]
Latest News and Features Graffard ‘never had any doubts’, as Calandagan shows his true colours Balding: We’ll work back from the Arc with Kalpana Calandagan rules supreme for France in King George Two Tribes tops the charts in Classic battle for International prize Royal Champion too good for Almaqam in York Stakes Cheshire Dancer surprises […]
If there was any doubt about Calandagan’s resolution in a battle, then his King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes tussle with Kalpana firmly answered the question. Narrowly beaten in four top-level contests since scoring at Royal Ascot last summer, some had looked at the four-year-old’s thirst for victory as a reason why the talented […]
