Posts tagged Mick Channon
Youmzain ready for Arc run
Sep 30th
The Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe has never been regarded as the soft option but this year’s race threatens to be heavy going for what could be a maximum field of 20 at Longchamp on Sunday. The ground has already taken a pounding from rain, a full card the previous day may well cut up [...]
Six left in Irish Champion Stakes
Sep 2nd
Such are the equine resources that Aidan O’Brien can call upon that he is able to withdraw a horse who would be a stable star just about anywhere else and still maintain his grip on a major prize. O’Brien has pared down his five entries for the Group One Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion Stakes at [...]
Music Show ready for Leopardstown
Sep 1st
Having already made one sweeping career change, to the point that there are many people who now only remember Mick Channon as a racehorse trainer, rather than an international footballer, there is always the suspicion that he could have made it as a comedian as well. Bravo Bravo was a horse who had had his [...]
Ryan Moore still not back yet
Aug 24th
Ryan Moore’s expected return to the saddle has been delayed once more. The champion jockey has been out of action since a fall at Windsor on August 9th. There have been various dates set for a return, which had included the Ebor meeting at York, but Moore has not felt sufficiently recovered from a wrist [...]
Soraaya wins Princess Margaret Stakes
Jul 24th
Winners often provoke memories and Soraaya certainly did. Mick Channon’s filly came from last to first for Ryan Moore to win the Group Three Princess Margaret Abu Dhabi Stakes at Ascot. She came through horses to beat Margot Did by a half-length and the two fillies paid a mighty compliment to Richard Hannon’s Memory, who [...]
Music Show wins Falmouth Stakes
Jul 7th
Music Show had finished fourth in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot last month, having finished sixth in the 1000 Guineas – when unfavourably drawn – and third in the Irish equivalent. But she finally found the way to beat them all in the Group One Etihad Airways Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket. To read the [...]
Aidan O’Brien faces trial of endurance
May 4th
Form is temporary, class is permanent is a regular incantation which is usually reserved for the losers rather than winners. Aidan O’Brien has often made a slow start to the season but that has not prevented him from being in the winner’s enclosure when the first major prizes of the season were being handed out. [...]
Derby gamblers who are in for the long haul
Dec 17th
Credit crunch, what credit crunch? Dow Jones? Never heard of the bloke. For those who cannot even see January for the fiscal pile-up that is Christmas, June 2011 is another world, but on planet horseracing thoughts of the Investec Derby in two years’ time are on the minds of those who can afford it. The [...]
Prince ready for his crowning moment
Nov 26th
For the rest of the world it may be that Monday morning feeling but for one teenager it will be a day to remember. Amateur jockey Philip Prince is set to fulfil a lifetime’s dream when he takes his first ride on the Flat at Wolverhampton’s all-weather card next week. It would be a day [...]
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