Posts tagged Newmarket
Kingsfort wins Ben Marshall Stakes
Oct 30th
Deep pockets and even deeper reserves of patience are a good idea for owners. Sheikh Mohammed is known for having the fiscal power but that has never made him immune the setbacks that come as part-and-parcel of racing. Having written a cheque with a fair amount zeros for Kingsfort, after he won last year’s Group [...]
Ragsah for Bosra Sham Stakes
Oct 29th
The feel-good factor surrounding the Saeed bin Suroor yard is hardly surprising. After a slow start to the season there have been seven Group One wins since July and there is also promise for the future in the juvenile division which has a 37% strike-rate for the season. A run of four seconds (one later [...]
Frankel wins Dewhurst Stakes
Oct 17th
Did it settle all the arguments? Certainly, for the present at least. The Group One Dubai Dewhurst Stakes was billed as many things, although “the greatest two-year-old race ever?” – as it was described on the front page of the Racing Post – may have owed more to hype than historical perspective. But at least [...]
Twice Over wins Champion Stakes
Oct 17th
After 133 years the Group One Emirates Airline Champion Stakes left its final imprint on the turf at Newmarket, before it is transferred to Ascot for next season. And it was given a send-off worthy of the occasion. Henry Cecil’s Twice Over was back to defend his crown and two furlongs out Tom Queally ranged [...]
Dewhurst Stakes preview
Oct 16th
Two-year-olds are supposed to be about promise but the Dubai Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket is set up to deliver something emphatic. It can be easy to be seduced by big names and forget horses who are themselves capable performers – this year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup demonstrated that emphatically when Imperial Commander gate-crashed the party – [...]
Tazeez wins Darley Stakes
Oct 15th
Patience may not make a horse run faster, but it will give a horse the chance to run as fast as he can. When Sheikh Hamdan al Maktoum paid €200,000 for the colt he would name Tazeez it did not look one of the shrewder purchases. Undetected leg problems kept the horse off the track [...]
Darley Stakes preview
Oct 15th
One victory in 18 months is hardly the most inspiring form but Tazeez can put another mark in the plus column after the Group Three Richard Hambro Darley Stakes at Newmarket. The victory that Tazeez earned, in a conditions’ race at Newbury last month, was probably not as impressive as some of the five consecutive [...]
Six left in Dewhurst Stakes
Oct 14th
The race that everyone has been looking forward to is still on. Well, everyone bar most of the other trainers in Britain. Rather like the denouement to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Frankel, Dream Ahead and Saamidd will meet in a three-way showdown for the Group One Dubai Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket with [...]
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