Twelve wins and defending champion. The UAE 1000 Guineas has proven to be Saeed bin Suroor’s masterclass with Godolphin’s lead and longest serving trainer holding the record as leading trainer for the major race. This Friday, the UAE 1000 Guineas Trial will held and run over 1400m as the most valuable race on the Meydan card at AED183,650. Bin Suroor prepares the 2YO filly Deep Thoughts who is a ...
My Frankel took out the SAR $1 million Crown Prince Cup (Domestic Group 1) on the weekend and will now be on track to line up in the Kings Cup in January. On board the 5YO jockey James Doyle recorded the win in his first rides in Saudi Arabia since the Saudi Cup meet in earlier this year. Doyle first rode in Saudi Arabia in the 2013-14 season with his last winner in Saudi being during the ...
Thirty-five seasons at the top is an achievement to be rivalled. For Frankie Dettori it is all coming to an end following an announcement by the 52-year-old yesterday. After a career that has spanned close to four decades the master hoop is putting a finish time on what has seen him victorious around the globe with one final season in the saddle. Announcing yesterday he said he would be calling ...
The Saudi Cup meeting is the world’s most valuable race meet and attracts the best trainers and horses in the world. Karl Burke knows how to win major races and get the best from his horses as he sets a plan for his stables Saudi mission. When the multiple Group One winning trainer arrives in Saudi, he will have two of his stars accompanying him in Holloway Boy and Al Qareem. Holloway Boy is his ...
Second chances are very hard to come by. When 4YO colt Sisfahan lines up in the Group 3 Red Sea Turf Cup Handicap on Saudi Cup Day in February it will be a prime example. An injury suffered during training put a stop to him lining up in the feature last year, but Henk Grewe will now prepare his 2021 German Derby winner ready for this start. The injury ruled him out for most of the following ...
Nine weeks of racing at the UAE’s flagship racecourse, the Dubai World Cup Carnival will offer up some of the best talent that the world has to offer. With the Dubai World Cup at its pinnacle, stables and trainers prepare their best to represent them on the world stage. With millions in prizemoney on offer the nominations have been accepted with nearly 150 horses travelling from 16 countries. ...
The best of equine athleticism stepped out at Sha Tin for the Hong Kong International Race Day. With a card that included four Group One feature races the meet had an intense Australian flavour. It was not just the horses showcased but also the talents of some of the world’s best jockeys. A treble from the kid from Lismore, ninety minutes from Australia’s Gold Coast, who would go on to pave a ...
Godolphin’s pair of raiders in Group One winner Kementari and Group Three 4YO Vilana failed to fire in the Group Three The Gold Rush, yesterday. Kementari had been sent to run the race specifically with Jamie Kah on board finishing seventh, and Vilana, piloted by Ben Melham finished towards the end of the pack only beating home two of its rivals. Formerly the AJ Scahill Stakes, the AUD $1.5 ...
When the gates fly open on Sunday for the Group 1 Hong Kong Mile the race will be Golden Sixty’s to lose. With the superstar being given immense favouritism the market is offering a short $1.55 for the Medaglia D'Oro-Gaudeamus gelding to win his third straight Mile. Vincent Ho returns to the saddle as he has for all of his Group One victories and will be guiding his mount on the way to an eighth ...
Trainer Francis Lui came away with a race to race double at Happy Valley overnight as he prepares his champion Golden Sixty to defend the Group One Hong Kong Mile this weekend. The first of the victories came in race five with Win Win Fighter ridden by Derek Leung claiming the second leg of the Longines International Jockey’s Championship. Coming off a second placing last start after making up ...
The Inevitable may have earned a trip to Dubai after unleashing his trademark turn of foot to take his stakes tally to five in Wednesday’s Listed Jacksons Security Newmarket (1200m) at Launceston. Ridden by David Pires for Scott Brunton, the 7YO son of Dundeel ran down stablemate First Accused by half a length with a further three-quarter length back to Alpine Wolf in third. The Inevitable ...
Alcohol Free, sold for 5.4 million gns on Tattersalls earlier this week, is set to race on in Australia where the four-time Group One winner will join the training partnership of Sydney legend Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott. The 4YO daughter of No Nay Never, who raced in Europe for owner Jeff Smith and trainer Andrew Balding, was the star attraction as she entered a sales ring that was standing ...