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The team behind Deryan (FR) are hoping for more big race success with their seven-year-old, who had travelled like the winner of last year’s The Obaiya Arabian Classic presented by Lexus before tiring in the final 300m to finish fifth. Trained by Didier Guillemin in Mont de Marsan in the south-west of France, the following month Deryan and his regular partner Ioritz Mendizabal flew to Dubai for ...
From training a very small string of horses in the shadows of leafy Gowran Park racecourse in County Kilkenny, Tony Mullins has found himself in the desert environs of Riyadh where his stable star Princess Zoe (GER) contests the Longines Red Sea Turf Handicap. The Mullins family are a racing dynasty in Ireland with their roots firmly in jump racing, and while the initial expectation may have ...
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Reigning champion Melbourne rider Jamie Kah turned around a frustrating run for trainer Danny O’Brien when she produced a smart ride aboard American Angel to win against fillies and mares at The Valley on Saturday. Going into the meeting, Kah had ridden in 11 races for O’Brien in 2022 and had been in the quinella nine times. Unfortunately, only two of those had been winners. Kah took bad luck ...
Racing at Jebel Ali on Saturday afternoon is highlighted by a pair of conditions races, both attracting proven Dubai World Cup Carnival or horses with aspirations to compete at Meydan’s international jamboree. Down on Da Bayou, winner of the 1900m Gr.3 UAE Oaks at Meydan in February 2020 by almost 19 lengths was successful for the first time since on her penultimate start in a 1600m conditions ...
Friday’s third meeting of the 2022 Dubai World Cup Carnival was highlighted by the 1600m turf feature, the Gr.2 Zabeel Mile, won in great style by Real World, Danny Tudhope taking the ride in place of an unwell Frankie Dettori for Saeed bin Suroor and a third winner on the evening for Godolphin. Always travelling well, the homebred Dark Angel 5yo entire quickened to lead about 300m out and soon ...
Counttheheadlights showed himself to be the leading male Blue Diamond Stakes contender for the state's leading stable with his strong debut win at The Valley last Saturday, and now it is time for a filly from the stable to stake her own claim. Co-trainer Ciaron Maher was happy to rank last Saturday's winner as his main colt going into next month's $1.5 million feature and said that, away from ...
Jockey Ben Allen is set to resume his partnership with unbeaten mare Marabi on Saturday as he also looks to extend a formidable recent record with the Ciaron Maher and Dave Eustace yard. Allen is booked to ride Marabi as she chases her first Gr.2 in Saturday's Australia Stakes (1200m) and if successful, the mare's record will rise to six wins from as many starts, while Allen's record will swell ...
A stylish debut performance by a two-year-old filly at Randwick on Saturday marked the first Southern Hemisphere success for Haunui Farm shuttle stallion Ribchester. Godolphin's Plymstock began her career on the perfect note in the Heineken 3 Handicap (1000m), sprinting impressively from near the back of the nine-horse field to score by just under a length for jockey Tim Clark. The James ...
Racing at Al Ain on Saturday is highlighted by a 2000m conditions race for which ten have been declared, including Jugurtha De Monlau who has a lofty official rating of 105 suggesting he could be the one to beat. To be ridden by Fernando Jara, Yas Racing’s 6yo is trained by Jean-Claude Pecout and will be having just his fourth local outing having made his UAE debut on this weekend last year when ...
Veteran South Australian trainer Gordon Richards says you can write Gytrash off at your own peril. The star-sprinter, who ran third in the 2020 Everest (1200m) at Randwick, is back in work preparing for another tilt at the Gr.1 Lightning Stakes (1000m) at Flemington next month, a race he won two years ago. Richards, who trains Gytrash in partnership with Damien Moyle, although slightly ...
Multiple Group-placed mare Starelle took off on Sunday for the Gold Coast in a trip that could provide connections with a rewarding feeling of deja vu. It was just 12 months ago that trainer Danny O’Brien and owner Robert Anderson won two Gold Coast races, including the Magic Millions Open (1800m) with mare Paradee and the pair have the same plan for Starelle. Already, Starelle is on the same ...
