Scottish-born jockey Jason Hart rode his 1,000th winner on Rock Of England in the Racing TV Club Day Handicap at Beverley on Thursday.
Hart, brought up in Hewick, has built up a good partnership with John and Sean Quinn in Malton and partnered Highfield Princess to four Group One wins for the yard.
Fellow Scot Mark Johnston handed him his first job but he credits Eric Alston for giving him his big breakthrough on Ridge Ranger, who won a Listed race and Group Three under Hart in 2016.
“It’s a nice milestone to get to,” Hart told Racing TV.
“I started off with Mark Johnston and had a great grounding there where you had a great work ethic instilled into you, then I moved to Declan Carroll and even more of a work ethic is instilled into you there.
“I’ve had great support from John Quinn and Eric Alston as well, Eric was the one who got me going and put me on a better class of horse.
“My agent said when I get to 100 winners this year it was 1,000 for Great Britain, but I’d actually had a few abroad so that was 1000 worldwide. I’ve a few more to go for 1000 in Britain on its own but I’m really happy.
“Highfield Princess is the best I’ve ridden but with a bit of luck Jm Jungle has a chance in the Nunthorpe next week. He’s bounced out of his Goodwood win well.”
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Jim Goldie is leaning towards Champions Day at Ascot over the Breeders’ Cup for his stable star American Affair.
The King Charles III Stakes victor was one of the most popular winners at Royal Ascot and had Goldie dreaming of a trip to America.
However, a setback in the days after Ascot put plans on hold for the five-year-old and he is still only in light work, which makes Goldie think he should target just one race.
“We’re still in pre-season mode with him, if that makes sense, we’re planning towards October time so we’ve eight to 10 weeks,” said Goldie.
“We haven’t made a final decision about America yet, but I think it’s more likely that we go to Ascot with him as I don’t want to do both as that would mean rushing him.
“Obviously the Ascot race is six furlongs and he might just be a five-furlong specialist, but if he’s not that’s another string to his bow.”
Goldie finished second in the 2012 British Champions Sprint with Hawkeyethenoo while Jack Dexter was beaten just a neck the following year, so the handler is eager to finally secure the title.
“The point about Ascot is I’ve seen it, been there and done it but not quite won it! I’ve come close a few times and we’ve had horses run well there whereas going halfway around the world, it could be too firm for him,” he said.
“The option is there next year if we need it. We know how his form is stacking up as the horse we beat easy twice this year (Jm Jungle) is now going for the Nunthorpe after winning at Goodwood.
“I do like Champions Day. Jack Dexter won the race after Frankel there but nobody remembers as everyone was still talking about Frankel!
“I had it in my head we were going to America but I wanted a prep-race and I could only see two. The Ayr Gold Cup or Ascot, and Ascot was only 10 days or so before.
“I spoke to Tadhg O’Shea who rides all over the world and he said you want to ideally get them over there in plenty of time to acclimatise, so it then became one or the other so that’s where we are. I’d think it’s Ascot but I’ll sit on the fence as long as I can.”
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Aidan O’Brien dominates the confirmations for the Sky Bet Great Voltigeur Stakes at York on Wednesday with six of the 11 entries.
His potential team is led by dual Derby winner Lambourn, who also holds a Juddmonte International entry, along with Aftermath, who has yet to run this season, Mount Kilimanjaro, Shackleton, Stay True and Thrice.
Paddy Twomey’s Carmers would be a major contender if he runs as he is unbeaten in three starts and broke the track record in the Queen’s Vase.
Pride Of Arras could return to the scene of Dante victory in May, although Ralph Beckett’s charge subsequently disappointed in the Derby at Epsom and was gelded following another lacklustre showing in the Irish equivalent.
George Scott’s Bay City Roller, winner of the Champagne Stakes last season, gets the chance to run over a trip his trainer thinks he will excel at for the first time while the Andrew Balding-trained Furthur and William Haggas’ Arabian Force, who was supplemented for the race, complete the list.
A total of 15 colts remain in the Tattersalls Acomb Stakes, that last year contained The Lion In Winter and Ruling Court.
Adrian Keatley has a very interesting contender in Rochfortbridge, a debut winner at Ayr when he beat Chesham runner-up and subsequent Listed winner Thesecretadversary.
“Taking him to Ayr was always going to help us decide whether he went for the Acomb or the Convivial Maiden,” said Keatley.
“We were delighted he put his hand up to run in something like the Acomb.
“The third horse has come out and won at Catterick easily last week as well as Fozzy Stack’s horse winning a Listed race since, so the form is rock solid.
“He was given a big rating and we’re confident he can go close.
“I was quietly confident we’d be second to Fozzy’s horse but it was nice to win and we’re delighted with him.”
O’Brien could run Dorset, Italy, Montreal or Neolithic while Charlie Appleby has Distant Storm and Pacific Avenue engaged.
Ed Walker’s Do Or Do Not, who is still a maiden having placed in three Group races, Goodwood Galaxy, Hankelow and May Angel are others who have shown smart form already that could run.
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Trainer Bill Turner has died aged 78 following a serious accident earlier this week.
Turner, who was based in Sigwells in Somerset, was a former jockey and as a trainer became synonymous with the Brocklesby Stakes at Doncaster, having won the traditional first race of the Flat turf season six times.
He had been in a serious condition in hospital after reportedly fracturing his skull in a fall on Monday and his daughter, Kathy, announced his death on Thursday afternoon.
Speaking at Chepstow racecourse, she told Sky Sports Racing: “Dad passed away about an hour and a half ago.
“We got the call in the lorry, I’d made the decision to come here, the horse (Red Snapper) was to run in dad’s name in his honour, whatever had happened he would have wanted that.
“He slipped away this morning. The support from everyone in racing has been absolutely outstanding. I’ve tried to reply to as many people as I could, but I am so sorry if I haven’t replied to you or someone else. The love that man had was absolute.
“He wasn’t just my dad and my sister’s dad and Ryan’s grandfather, he was everyone’s dad and the people who he has helped in their careers saw him as a dad.
“He would have preferred to have been going flat out up the gallops but unfortunately it was a freak accident.
“I still can’t get round that this injury has done this to him, as I’ve pulled him out from such serious injuries on the gallops. Only last Sunday he was re-felting my sister’s salon roof.”
Mick’s Yer Man was Turner’s last Brocklesby winner in 2013 and that victory held special significance.
Kathy Turner added: “His best ever moment was when Ryan (While, grandson) won the Brocklesby on Mick’s Yer Man.”
In a statement British Horseracing Authority chief executive Brant Dunshea said: “Everybody at the BHA is deeply saddened by the news of Bill Turner’s death. My thoughts, along with my colleagues at the BHA and everyone involved in the sport, are with Bill’s family and friends, as well as everyone who works at the yard.
“Bill was a wonderful stalwart of our sport. He poured his heart and soul into racing, both as a jockey and then a trainer, and we will particularly miss his annual runner in the Brocklesby Stakes, which he won an impressive six times.
“We will do everything we can to support the yard during this incredibly challenging period.”
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Outfielder is on his way to France with the aim of providing American trainer Wesley Ward with a fourth victory in the Prix Morny at Deauville on Sunday week.
The Speightstown colt made a huge impression on his racecourse debut at Churchill Downs in May and looked tailor-made to add to Ward’s tally of a dozen winners at Royal Ascot.
However, he was ruled out of the the trip to Britain following a late setback and for the first time in a decade his trainer did not have a runner at the summer showpiece meeting in Berkshire.
But two months on, Ward is gunning for more Group One glory on European soil in a race he has previously won with No Nay Never (2013), Lady Aurelia (2016) and Campanelle (2020).
“Outfielder left Keeneland yesterday (Wednesday), so away we go,” he said.
“He’s flying right now, doing great and everything is wonderful. He’s had some excellent morning breezes and I’m so excited to get this guy going.
“He won bounding away on his only start. It was a little bit of a rush job to get him to Ascot and he told us he hadn’t quite recovered from his first effort to be ready for his next, but now he’s ready.”
No Nay Never, Lady Aurelia and Campanelle had all struck Royal Ascot gold before following up at Deauville and while Ward admits Outfielder lacks that high-level match practice, he feels there is some upside in the fact he will line up fresh.
“He doesn’t have quite the experience the others did because the others had two runs. They’d all run at home and run at Ascot,” the trainer added.
“This horse does have a bit better spacing in that all the others came back to America after Ascot and then had to travel again back to France, so he’s got better spacing from race to race.
“His last workout was an eye-opener at Keeneland. He worked in company with a horse called Longshoreman, who is out of Lady Pauline, who actually ran at Ascot in a race prior to the Royal meeting a few years ago and finished second.
“Longshoreman finished second on his debut at Keeneland and then bounded away by many lengths, just like Outfielder did, so when we worked them together last week I was kind of unsure what would happen, but Outfielder just ran away from him.
“He would relish fast ground, that’s for sure. It’s always a question mark at Deauville, but right now he’s doing great and we’re excited about running him.”
Ward is named as a part-owner of Outfielder alongside Kia Joorabchian’s Amo Racing operation and former professional baseball player Jayson Werth, who is set to make the trip to France.
Ward, who also confirmed Amo Racing’s retained rider David Egan is set to be on board, said: “Jayson is a wonderful guy and it’s great to have a great sportsman like him be involved in such a nice horse. We’re excited about that as well.”
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Daryz is on course for next week’s Juddmonte International at York after satisfying connections in a gallop on Thursday morning.
The Sea The Stars colt is in unbeaten in four races this term having been unraced at two last year and as a Group Two winner last time out, his team feel the timing is right for him to step into the best company.
Nemone Routh, racing manager for owners the Aga Khan Studs, confirmed that Daryz sufficiently impressed trainer Francis-Henri Graffard and is set to run on Wednesday.
“I’ve spoken to the trainer and jockey because Mickael Barzalona rode him and they were very happy with his piece of work. He’d taken a step forward from his piece of work last week and they were very happy with his condition,” said Routh.
“He worked with Sibayan and Surabad, a Group Two winner and Group Three placed so good horses, and after it the plan is now to run at York if everything goes fine.
“It’s obviously a big ask from what he has been doing so far. The field is a strong one and we’re under no illusions it’s going to be a very tough race, but Francis took the view that the horse is in great form, it will be fast ground which he handles well and we’ve always rated him, so we’ll see how good he is next week.”
Daryz has yet to venture further than ParisLongchamp and Saint-Cloud and Routh admits travelling for the first time to potentially take on the likes of Eclipse victor Delacroix and Japanese runner Danon Decile presents a real test.
Eclipse winner Delacroix also featured in the International confirmations (Steven Paston/Jockey Club)
“Francis just wanted to see that the horse was on good terms with himself, which he showed us this morning, but the question mark with him is he has been learning on the job, he’s still a bit immature,” said Routh.
“It’s going to be a lot for him to travel for the first time, see everything new and then come up against such a top-class field as well. That’s the caveat with him.
“We were very impressed last time though, in a race which wasn’t run to suit him. He pulled too hard as they were crawling but then he really picked up. That was a Group Two so you feel it makes sense to run in a Group One and this came up at the right time.”
A total of nine horses have been confirmed, with Aidan O’Brien responsible for Delacroix, dual Derby hero Lambourn, who also has the Great Voltiguer as an option, and the top-class filly Whirl.
John and Thady Gosden’s Prince of Wales’s scorer Ombudsman will have the benefit of a pacemaker in the supplemented Birr Castle, with See The Fire and Anmaat also left in.
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Connections of Helvic Dream have lost their appeal against the decision of the stewards to demote their horse to second in the Galway Hurdle.
Helvic Dream and Donagh Meyler won by a head but the stewards deemed there was enough interference caused to Jack Kennedy and Ndaawi to change the finishing order.
Meade’s appeal was considered at a Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board hearing on Wednesday, with Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan outlining the decision on behalf of the Appeals Body.
She said: “The ultimate decision that we have to reach is whether the stewards erred in their decision on the day and whether we should uphold the decision or reach a different view on this.
“Having viewed all the recordings of the race and considered all of the evidence we have to come to our decision, mindful that these determinations are on the balance of probabilities. We also want to say that we can well see why an appeal has been brought in this case.
“In coming to our conclusion… we cannot be satisfied that the stewards erred in their decision to reverse the placings.
“In summary that is because interference has occurred, and it was caused by Mr Meyler. Whilst Mr Kennedy’s horse may not have obviously lost its own momentum, he was clearly significantly pressed for space so near the rail and he was not able to ride his strongest race. We must therefore dismiss the appeal.”
William Buick teamed up with John and Thady Gosden to ride a Listed race double at Salisbury through Morris Dancer and Miss Justice.
The victory of Morris Dancer in the three-runner British Stallion Studs EBF Stonehenge Stakes was more expected, but nevertheless he was sent off a 11-10 chance with A Bit Of Spirit the 5-6 favourite.
Morris Dancer had pushed Zavateri close at Goodwood in the Vintage Stakes and back down in grade had little trouble in winning by four lengths.
Buick said: “It was a quick turnaround from Goodwood where he had shown signs of inexperience.
“The way he jumped from the stalls that day, we were too far behind but he still ran a huge race.
“It’s lovely to see him back it up here today and I was really happy with what he did, he’s improving with all his racing.
“He’s learning on the job but is very straightforward, you can place him anywhere and I do think he’s improving.
“We wanted a tow into the race, it was a fair run race and you can take a bit out of it, everyone had their shot.
“I don’t think he’d mind a bit of juice in the ground but he gets the job done. He stayed a mile but I think he’d also be happy back at seven furlongs.”
Miss Justice’s win in the British Stallion Studs EBF Upavon Fillies’ Stakes was a bit more of a surprise as she had been busy on the all-weather and looked to have a bit to find on the figures but she was still only an 11-2 chance.
The four-year-old had to survive being caught badly short of room before the turn for home and the persistent challenge of Ralph Beckett’s Revoir but battled back to win by a head.
“She’s been a filly we’ve always liked and has a brilliant pedigree, being by Justify and out of a sister to Timepiece,” Thady Gosden told Racing TV.
“She’s been a bit unlucky this year but won well at Southwell last time out, albeit she was back in trip today.
“She got badly cut up out in the country but the jockey seemed more annoyed than her!
“It’s fantastic for her owners to win this today and we’ll just enjoy that.”
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Aidan O’Brien is giving serious consideration to running his dual Derby winner Lambourn in the Sky Bet Great Voltigeur Stakes at York next week.
The Australia colt emulated his sire by striking Classic gold at Epsom and the Curragh in June and is now ready to step up his preparations for a major autumn target.
For a long time another Classic bid in the St Leger at Doncaster seemed likely, but with stablemate Scandinavia throwing his hat into that particular ring with victory in the Goodwood Cup, Lambourn may instead be bound for Paris and a tilt at the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
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When asked whether Lambourn could step back to Group Two level on the Knavesmire, O’Brien told Sky Sports Racing: “He could, we’ve a lot of horses kind of ready for the Voltigeur, some are just about ready and some are probably not going to make it.
“Lambourn definitely could. We’ll see how he is and his next target then can be either the Leger or the Arc. I think the lads are thinking Scandinavia is going to be trained for the Leger now – if the ground was nice he would go there and Lambourn wouldn’t go there, but if it was the other way Lambourn would go there.
“Lambourn probably needs a race between now and the Leger or the Arc and it (Great Voltigeur) is a race that could suit him.
“He’s a straightforward, honest, no-nonsense horse. He does what he has to do and doesn’t do any more.”
Another Ballydoyle inmate with Arc aspirations is last year’s third Los Angeles, who made an excellent start to his campaign with successive wins at the Curragh but could finish only fifth as a hot favourite for the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Los Angeles and Ryan Moore after winning the Tattersalls Gold Cup (Niall Carson/PA)
Having since enjoyed a mid-season break, he is set to return to competitive action in the Newbridge Silverware Royal Whip Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday.
“We were thinking he could go to the Royal Whip and go and improve a lot,” O’Brien added.
“He’s had a break since Ascot and we were thinking if he went to the Curragh this weekend he could go to the Prix Foy as an Arc trial or he could go to the Irish Champion Stakes as an Arc trial.
“All those things are open, but he’s just starting back and he’ll be running with no pressure win, lose or draw (this weekend). We’d just like to get a run into him to get him ready for the autumn.
“The Arc has been his target all the time. We tightened him up a bit too much in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes and because of that he just had to have a little rest. He’s come back happy, but will progress a lot before the Arc.”
O’Brien also had news of Henri Matisse, last seen finishing third in the Sussex Stakes behind shock 150-1 winner Qirat.
O’Brien said: “He’ll go probably for the Prix du Moulin. Goodwood was a little bit of a disaster – it was really only a four-furlong dash in the second half of the race.
“It was one of those races that is hard to work out, but we were very happy with the run, Ryan (Moore) was very happy with him and we think he’s still progressing.
“We haven’t seen the best of him yet, we think.”
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Jm Jungle came through his final piece of work before next week’s Coolmore Wootton Bassett Nunthorpe Stakes at York with flying colours.
John and Sean Quinn’s five-year-old has a remarkably consistent profile for a five-furlong sprinter, and won the Dash at Epsom in June.
He has now progressed out of handicap company and won the Group Two King George Stakes at Goodwood, sparking dreams of a second Nunthorpe in four years for the Quinns, who won with Highfield Princess in 2022.
“He came out of Goodwood absolutely fine and he’s looking well,” said John Quinn.
“He did a little piece of work this (Wednesday) morning and that will be his final piece before the Nunthorpe. We’re happy with him and he’s in good shape.
“We haven’t seen a massive change in him at home this year but he’s definitely stronger. He’s an adequate work horse without being a very good one but he’s sharper.
“He’s a five-year-old gelding now, he’s a sprinter finding his mojo and improving. All he’s done for the last season and a half is improve and improve.
“We keep seeing it and he’s another example that there’s very little between those top handicap sprinters and the Group horses.
“We’re delighted with him and looking forward to York.”
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Anmaat appears unlikely to line up in next week’s Juddmonte International, despite the fact connections are “desperate to run him” on the Knavesmire.
Last season’s Champion Stakes hero has only been seen twice this season, pushing Los Angeles close in the Tattersalls Gold Cup in Ireland before finishing best of the rest behind Ombudsman in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Having since sidestepped the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown, trainer Owen Burrows and owners Shadwell are keen to run him at York, but underfoot conditions could again scupper his participation.
“We’re desperate to run him, but he won’t be there if it’s very fast ground and it doesn’t sound like there’s a lot of rain around,” said Shadwell’s racing manager Angus Gold.
“I was going to talk to Owen before confirmations. He says the horse is bouncing and he really wants to run him, but we’ve got the autumn ahead of us and at some stage the weather must turn.
“I fear we may not be there next week.”
Should Anmaat miss York, his next option appears to be be the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown next month ahead of the planned defence of his Champion Stakes crown at Ascot in October.
Definitely on course for York, however, is Delacroix, with Aidan O’Brien still gobsmacked by the manner of his Sandown victory, where he reeled in Ombudsman from a seemingly impossible position.
“It was the most amazing thing I ever saw, I think. He could not win at the two-furlong marker, everything had gone sideways on him, and when Ryan (Moore) got him out he still had too much ground to make up,” the Ballydoyle trainer told Sky Sports Racing.
“I think his times suggested no horse has ever covered the last two furlongs in an Eclipse the way he did and he won with his ears pricked.
“In the Derby he got taken out at the top of the hill and Ryan said it was race over straight away. We found it very easy to put a line through it, we thought a mile and a quarter was his distance and he’d two lovely runs before the Derby over a mile and a quarter.”
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William Haggas fears Champions Day at Ascot on October 18 will come too soon for Economics, with winter targets in the Middle East now more likely.
Last year’s Dante and Irish Champion Stakes winner was being readied for a Royal Ascot return but met with a setback.
It has been a slow recovery for the four-year-old, and Haggas is almost on the verge of admitting defeat in him running in Europe this year.
“He had an injury in the run up to Ascot and he’s not going to make Ireland, I’ve taken him out of Ireland but I’ve left him in the Champion Stakes,” Haggas told Sky Sports Racing.
“I suspect he might not even be ready to run his best by then, so somewhere in the Middle East in the winter could be his first port of call.
“I’m delighted to say his sporting owner has confirmed he’s going to stay in training next year and I hope we’ll get a clear run with him then.
“It’s been a sensationally frustrating time for us with him.”
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Prix du Jockey Club winner Camille Pissarro has been retired due to an injury sustained while running in the Coral-Eclipse.
Trained by Aidan O’Brien, the Wootton Bassett colt also won at the highest level as a juvenile when taking the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere by a neck from Rashabar.
Third to stablemate Henri Matisse in the French 2000 Guineas, the step up in trip suited him in the French Derby and stud plans will be announced shortly.
O’Brien told Coolmore: “Camille Pissarro pulled a shoe at Sandown and was quite sore afterwards.
“We had him X-rayed, and a fissure fracture was found in his fetlock. The decision was then made to retire him.
“Camille Pissarro was an extremely classy colt; he had speed and class. He won the Lagardere on Arc weekend last year at two, and then he showed everyone how good he was in the French Derby. He was very classy.”
John Gosden has issued an upbeat bulletin on Field Of Gold after the dual Group One winner picked up an injury in his Sussex Stakes defeat at Goodwood.
The colt’s co-trainer is hopeful he will run again this season, with an autumn comeback in mind.
“The good news is he’s come sound. There was considerable filling there, but that itself has diminished now,” he told the Nick Luck Daily podcast.
“We’re gingerly finding our way forward again with some trotting and we may possibly be able to do an easy canter next week.
“It’s one step at a time, it was certainly a significant enough injury, it’s looking like it was a bad wrench of the joint. The filling the next morning was considerable and he was quite lame on it, but fortunately two sets of X-rays and an ultrasound scan have come back clean.
“We put it down to him wrenching a joint in the race as it was noticeable that he didn’t quite level off properly, he was lugging right which means he was trying to keep the weight off it.
“We’ll see what we have in store for him in the future, we won’t be rushing back to any races right now.”
He added: “Very much so, that (autumn) would be the aim. He’s got a great mind on him and from that point of view he’s a pleasure to train.”
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