Archive for September 4, 2010
Quality Road takes Woodward Stakes win
Sep 4th
Quality Road put himself back in the picture for the Breeders’ Cup when he won the Grade One Woodward Stakes at Saratoga. Four weeks previously Quality Road had just lost out to Blame in a tight finish to the Grade One Whitney Handicap, giving the winner 5lbs, and he was the heavy market leader this [...]
Cape Blanco wins Irish Champion Stakes
Sep 4th
As expected Aidan O’Brien won the Group One Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown, for the sixth time, but not with the horse that he was expected to do so. It was a race for the unexpected and also a reminder not to forget a horse who has won a Classic. O’Brien fielded half [...]
Markab wins Sprint Cup
Sep 4th
Markab broke the track record to win the Group One Betfred Sprint Cup at Haydock Park. Starspangledbanner, who was flying for Aidan O’Brien during the summer, was beaten for the second time in successive races as he came fifth. The Choisir colt had looked to be one of the stars of the season when he [...]
Hooray wins Sirenia Stakes
Sep 4th
It may have taken a while to get the tactics right but Hooray is now proving simplicity itself. Having tried a variety of options with the filly, when she seemed not to be fulfilling her early promise, Sir Mark Prescott decided that to take line of least resistance by just using her speed. The new [...]
Woodward Stakes preview
Sep 4th
Vince Lombardi, the legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers once said that: “If you can accept losing, you can’t win.” Four weeks ago, when Quality Road lost out in a tight finish to Blame in the Grade One Whitney Handicap at Saratoga, Todd Pletcher would probably have said that he could have done without [...]
Irish Champion Stakes preview
Sep 4th
When Rip Van Winkle won the Juddmonte International at York two weeks ago, Aidan O’Brien said: “He’s in a really good place now and he’s really on an upward curve.” As the colt had just beaten Twice Over and Byword, respectively the winners of the Eclipse and Prince of Wales’s Stakes, just how much more [...]
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