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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 ...
Annabel Neasham believes Laws Of Indices is the perfect horse to represent Australia when he takes on the mighty Golden Sixty in the Gr.1 Hong Kong Mile Chris Waller-trained Comin’ Through, unplaced four years ago in the same race, was the last Australian horse to attempt the Mile. Former Irish-trained Laws Of Indices, a Gr.1 winner in France in last year’s Prix Jean Prat, joined Sydney-based ...
After a stellar 2YO campaign in which he won the Gr.1 Golden Rose in Sydney in September and finished a good fifth in The Everest in October, star 3YO Jacquinot has returned to work to begin preparation for two major Gr.1 Melbourne features in February. The victory at the Golden Rose Stakes by Jacquinot spurred a deal worth an estimated US$15 million between the NSW breeder Widden Stud and Qatar ...
On November 29 in England, at the age of 21, Ouija Board passed away, a report in Thoroughbred Daily News states. She was a two-time champion grass mare in North America. Ouija Board, a son of Cape Cross and a daughter of Welsh Pageant's Selection Board, won ten races, nine of which were stakes, and brought in a total of $6,312,552. She took first place in both the 2004 VO5 Breeders' Cup Filly ...
