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Trainer Willie McCreery is confident that his single entrant, Ireland's Insinudendo, can bring Ireland its first victory in the race. This high-class 5YO, stall number seven, is a multiple Group winner and ran to a fantastic third-place finish in the Gr.1 Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot in her most recent outing. As McCreery puts it, "We were meant to come last year but ...
This Friday, the Sakhir International Racecourse will host the fourth annual £600,000 Bahrain International Trophy (1.05 pm). As a strong British challenger, Lord Glitters was a spectacular winner from dead last to first place a year ago. First, Fawzi Nass's new French hire, Dilawar, is quite exciting. Simsir re-signed with a local trainer for 2020. Dilawar's form in France is solid, with the ...
Rosie Jessop, who has been based in Bahrain for the past four years, won her first race of the 2022-23 season last Friday (the Bapco Cup race for locally-bred horses), and she plans to make it two in a row tomorrow (the Rashid Equestrian and Horseracing Club's 2,200m race, also for locally-bred horses) (REHC). The 33-year-old Jessop said, "It would be fantastic to win on consecutive weekends" in ...
The competitors in the prestigious Group Three Bahrain International Trophy, which will be held on Friday at the Rashid Equistrian and Horseracing Club (REHC) in Sakhir, have arrived in the country to finalise their preparations. Eleven horses from throughout the globe will compete in the highly publicised £600,000 contest. Owen Burrows' Alflaila, a progressive dual Gr.3 winner, will not be ...
On December 7 at Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Jockey Club announced that Jamie Kah and Jye McNeil would represent Australia in the Longines International Jockeys' Championship. On Saturday, the son of Savabeel will be ridden by the world's best jockey in the Gr.1 Singapore Gold Cup at Kranji, where he will be hoping to redeem himself following a close loss in the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth Cup. Sacred ...
After the amazing Breeders' Cup World Championships at Keeneland concluded on November 16, the 10-day Keeneland November Breeding Sock Sale began, and it saw healthy gains and vibrant worldwide involvement. During the first session on November 7th, the sale's top lot, Midnight Bisou, was hammered down to Japanese buyer Katsumi Yoshida for $5.5 million. Midnight Bisou, the 2019 champion older ...
Rich Strike, winner of the 2018 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (Gr.1), is set to make his comeback to the track later this month. After finishing fourth in the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic (Gr.1) at Keeneland, 11 1/4 lengths behind the winner Flightline, trainer Eric Reed indicated on November 16 that the 3-year-old Keen Ice would be aiming for the Clark Stakes Presented by ...
From his foal days on Jane Lyon's Summer Wind Farm in Central Kentucky to his sale as a $1 million yearling at The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton select yearling sale in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., undefeated four-time grade 1 winner Flightline has been on a steady ascent. He began to justify his price when he won his debut at Santa Anita Park in April 2021 gate-to-wire by 13 1/4 lengths. The son of ...
Shadwell's progressive Gr.3 champion Alflaila will not compete in Friday's £600,000 Gr.3 Bahrain International Trophy because of an injury sustained during normal work on Monday morning. "Alflaila was having a typical canter at the racetrack at Bahrain this morning," said trainer Owen Burrows, who was set to have his maiden runner in Bahrain. John Lake, my top lad, rode him and said he was ...
Highly Motivated, a son of perennial leading sire Into Mischief and a numerous track-record holder for Klaravich Stables, was added to Airdrie Stud's stallion list on November 15 for the 2023 breeding season for a cost of $7,500, live foal stands, and nurses. Highly Motivated, trained by four-time Eclipse Award winner Chad Brown, was purchased as a weanling at the 2018 Keeneland November ...
Trainer Rhys Radford is looking for a repeat of Great Shot's unexpected victory in the Furphy-Railway Stakes at Ascot five years ago. Comfort Me, who finished second to Western Empire in last year's Gr.1 event, is a major hope for trainer Rhys Radford to win the race for a second time. On the heels of two solid performances in the Gr.3 Eurythmic Stakes and Gr.2 Lee Steere Stakes, Comfort Me ...
Dan Morton, who trainers the odds-on favourite Alaskan God, was pleased with his draw in barrier 14 for Saturday's Gr.1 Railway Stakes at Ascot. If the two emergencies drawn inside him don't start, he will move up to post position 12. Morton would prefer that stall rather than a spot right up to the fence for Chris Parnham to ride their son of Playing God. He's a big, rangy horse who needs to be ...
