Epsom heroine Minnie Hauk is all the rage to provide Aidan O’Brien with an eighth victory in the Juddmonte Irish Oaks on Saturday. Alexandrova (2006), Peeping Fawn (2007), Snowfall (2021) and Savethelastdance (2023) are among the Ballydoyle handler’s previous winners of the Curragh Classic and he is responsible for four of the six runners in […]
Wise Approach was much the best when sauntering to success in the Ire-Incentive – It Pays To Buy Irish Rose Bowl Stakes at Newbury. Charlie Appleby’s Mehmas colt – who cost a million guineas as a yearling – is a half-sibling to the Group-placed Golden Mind and multiple Group One winner Perfect Power, and was […]
Andy Slattery thinks Powerful Nation will take a good deal of beating as his promising three-year-old steps up in class for the Barberstown Castle Sapphire Stakes at the Curragh. The Sioux Nation colt has never finished outside of the first three in eight starts and landed a Listed race on his last outing. “He looks ready […]
Nico de Boinville is on the road to recovery following broken ribs a nasty neck injury that saw him required to wear a brace. Nicky Henderson’s stable jockey was kicked in the back after a fall at Plumpton on Easter Monday that ruled him out of the end of the season. Henderson was able to […]
Ed Bethell’s dependable stable star Regional will bid to be the toast of the yard in the Hallgarten And Novum Wines Hackwood Stakes at Newbury. The seven-year-old has hardly run a bad race across the last three seasons, and has a Group One win in the Haydock Sprint Cup to his name alongside multiple placings […]
The Bowen family are synonymous with the Unibet Summer Plate Handicap Chase at Market Rasen and this time it is Mickey attempting to get his name on the roll of honour with Courtland and Statuario. Peter Bowen, the now-retired patriarch of the famous Welsh family, won it eight times as a trainer from 1997-2022. His […]
Kevin Philippart de Foy has been in the news of late ahead of his move to the famous Freemason Lodge Stables in Newmarket, yet he is hoping to land one of the biggest prizes of the summer jumps season at Market Rasen. The Belgian has an intercontinental background given his mum was a trainer in […]
Havana Hurricane will bid to put an end to Eve Johnson Houghton’s “incredibly unlucky” record in the Weatherbys Super Sprint at Newbury on Saturday. The Havana Gold colt provided his trainer with a second victory in the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot last month, following in the hoofprints of her 2021 winner Chipotle. The […]
Latest News and Features Snellen strikes Group Three gold with gutsy Meld success Fairy Oak holds on for Leopardstown maiden success Royal Fixation handed Lowther mission at York O’Brien eager to take on Hauk again with Wemightakedlongway No hurry for Burke to set Venetian Sun target Meehan seeking stamina answers with Steventon contender Rashabar Do […]
Snellen fended off the late challenge of hot favourite Purview to win the Group Three Boylesports Meld Stakes at Leopardstown. All eyes were on the Dermot Weld-trained Purview, who was sent off the 4-6 market leader under Colin Keane after chasing home subsequent Eclipse winner Delacroix in a Derby Trial at this track back in […]
Fairy Oak confirmed the promise of her fine effort at Royal Ascot with a narrow victory in the Irish EBF Median Sires Series Maiden at Leopardstown. Second on her Navan debut in early June, Michael O’Callaghan’s filly then finished fifth behind the exciting Venetian Sun in the Albany Stakes less than a fortnight ago later. […]
Royal Fixation will aim to give her owners Opulence Thoroughbreds their first ever Group winner in the Sky Bet Lowther Stakes. The Ed Walker-trained filly won impressively on her debut at York before giving hot favourite Venetian Sun a big fright in the Duchess of Cambridge Stakes. With Karl Burke sending the winner into Group […]
Joseph O’Brien is keen to let Wemightakedlongway have another crack at red-hot Juddmonte Irish Oaks favourite Minnie Hauk at the Curragh on Saturday. The pair met in a Cork maiden last October when Wemightakedlongway showed the benefit of her previous experience, beating Minnie Hauk on her debut by two and a half lengths. Since then […]
Karl Burke is keeping his options open with Venetian Sun following her latest big-race success at Newmarket last week. The Spigot Lodge handler has not made any secret of the regard in which he holds the Starman filly and she has so far lived up to the billing, with a debut success at Carlisle followed […]
Brian Meehan is on a “finding-out mission” with Rashabar in Saturday’s BetVictor Steventon Stakes at Newbury. A shock 80-1 winner of the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot last summer, the Holy Roman Emperor colt went on to finish second in two French Group Ones before the end of his juvenile campaign and kicked off the […]
