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Lambourn is to welcome a new but familiar name to its training ranks after Brian O'Rourke was granted a licence to have runners. For the last six years, O'Rourke has operated a pre-training business in the village from Old Manor Stables where Kim Bailey sent out the winners of the Grand National, Cheltenham Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle in the 1990s. A native of County Tyrone, O'Rourke spent time ...
When racing fans arrive for the 150th Kentucky Derby Day in 2024, they can expect to see a vastly different Churchill Downs racetrack but those renovations will not include a hotel. During a conference call with analysts and investors April 22, Churchill Downs Inc. CEO Bill Carstanjen said the company had decided to not move forward with a previously announced hotel for Churchill Downs ...
Returning to the scene where past glories were first conceived proved a running theme at a record-breaking edition of the Goffs UK Breeze-Up Sale, no more so than when Michael O'Callaghan capped a headlining day for Tally-Ho Stud by swooping for a £210,000 (US$292,503) Twilight Son colt. The sale's joint top lot comfortably eclipsed the amount that the upwardly mobile Kildare trainer laid out 12 ...
York will resume racing next month without spectators, but with the prize-money for its best races restored to pre-pandemic levels. The Juddmonte International, which was rated the best Flat race in the world last year by the Longines IFHA Committee, will again be worth £1 million at the track's Ebor meeting in August after being run for £275,000 last season. The Coolmore Wootton Bassett ...
From “unrideable”, smart but temperamental sprinter Lim’s Lightning has gone on to give Daniel Meagher an unbelievable ride towards a tilt at a first Gr.1 victory for the young trainer next Saturday. The 2018 Singapore juvenile champion will contest the $300,000 Gr.1 Lion City Cup (1200m) off the back of only one start (and victorious at that) at Kranji since unexpectedly returning from an ...
Second favorite Efforia captured the Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas) undefeated since his debut and extending his winning streak to four for his first Gr.1title he becomes the 19th undefeated Satsuki Sho winner following Saturnalia and Contrail in 2019 and 2020, respectively. Winning his debut start over 2,000 meters at Sapporo in August last year, the Epiphaneia colt followed with a win in ...
The A$3,500,000 Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside claimed one of Australasia's most iconic races when the colt peeled three-wide on the home turn under Tommy Berry. With a brilliant burst of acceleration, Stay Inside put the race to bed in a matter of strides. It was left to Godolphin’s top-class Street Boss (USA) colt Anamoe to mount any sort of challenge. Coming from second last, Anamoe gave ...
Darley Offers four Godolphin's Champions to Australian breeders in 2021. The move is headlined by Bivouac, Exceed And Excel’s World Champion sprinter, who will be joined by three outstanding shuttle sires: Pinatubo, Ghaiyyath, and Earthlight, every one of them a Champion. They boast 12 Gr.1 victories and join Darley Australia just 12 months after the arrival of fellow Champions Too Darn ...
Australian Racing Hall of Famer Let’s Elope, who completed the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double in 1991, has earned induction to the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame. Let’s Elope will take her place alongside fellow Melbourne Cup-winning New Zealand-bred greats of the turf including Carbine (1890), Phar Lap (1930), Rising Fast (1954), Might And Power (1997), and Ethereal (2001), at the Hall of ...
Valiant Stud owner Fergal Connolly has just the one stunning entry for Inglis Easter to be offered under the Valiant Stud banner. From the second Australian crop of Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (USA), Lot 442 is the first foal of stakes-winning Poet’s Voice (GB) mare My Country, whose next two dams are by champion sires Danehill and Shirley Heights. My Country had plenty of dash and ...
A dual Gr. I winning mare Srikandi, who was knocked down to Tom Magnier for A$2 million at the 2019 Inglis Chairman’s Sale, produced her first winner in March. Trained by Peter and Paul Snowden, 3YO Snitzel filly Heroes was a crowd favourite when resuming from a spell in the 1000m maiden at Gosford and saluted in style. Fourth and third at her only previous outings last year, Heroes was ridden ...
Global powerhouse Coolmore showed some of their might when they went to US$2.6 million for Lot 28 a colt by Darley stallion Nyquist to top The Gulfstream Sale, Fasig-Tipton's select 2YO in Training Sale. Fasig-Tipton reported 66 horses sold from 105 offered (a larger number of horses were withdrawn from the original catalogue of 186 individuals) for gross receipts of US$25,040,000. The average ...
