Posts tagged Sir Michael Stoute
Frankel and Dream Ahead dead-heat for champion two-year-old
Jan 11th
There may have been seven lengths between them the only time that they met on a racecourse, but the European handicapper’s could not split them. Read more at: http://horse-racing.bettor.com/frankel-and-dream-ahead-dead-heat-for-champion-two-year-old/news/1337683
Price is right for Richard Hannon
Jan 5th
Horseracing should always be primarily about the horses but the 2010 Flat turf season was a reminder that there is no substitute for experience from the human element of the equation. Richard Hannon, Sir Michael Stoute and Henry Cecil – combined years with a trainer’s licence 119 – all took the plaudits in different ways. [...]
Goldikova and Workforce stay in training
Nov 8th
After Goldikova won her third successive Breeders’ Cup Mile, at Churchill Downs on Saturday, her trainer, Freddie Head, said: “I thought I had lived everything as a jockey but this passes everything. It’s a day you have once in your life I suppose.” Well, may be Head could be finding himself in Groundhog Day mode [...]
No decision on Workforce for Breeders’ Cup Turf
Nov 6th
The Breeders’ Cup Turf has become one of the banker races for European runners at the meeting. They have won the race 13 times in the last 20 years and the trainer with the best overall record is Sir Michael Stoute. To read the full blog: http://blogs.bettor.com/Late-decision-on-Workforce-for-Breeders-Cup-Turf-a39285
Khalid Abdullah’s Breeders’ Cup workforce looks good
Oct 27th
Records are there to be broken because the pursuit of excellence is one of the fundamentals of sport itself. But rarely can such a quest have started from such small beginnings. It is over 30 years since the green silks with the pink sash and cap that have become a constant theme of the great [...]
Zenyatta good in latest workout
Oct 23rd
Zenyatta is good. No, Zenyatta may be one of the best we have seen. John Shirreffs knows it and his worry is that the mare who goes to Churchill Downs in a fortnight to defend her unbeaten record knows it too. They say you cannot rush genius but when that genius is an athlete, human [...]
Doncaster winner on Sir Michael Stoute’s special day
Oct 22nd
The bus pass may already be in the post but the retirement date is still some way over the horizon. Sir Michael Stoute has reached a landmark with his 65th birthday but the only one that he will be interested in will be his next winner. Richard Hannon may be out of his reach in [...]
Richard’s Kid out of Breeders’ Cup Classic
Oct 20th
At a time when just about everyone else is trying to find a horse good enough to take to Churchill Downs next month for the Breeders’ Cup, one man has decided to go the other way. In fact all the way to Dubai. Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed al-Maktoum, owner of Richard’s Kid, has elected not [...]
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 [...]
Workforce wins Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe
Oct 3rd
After nearly 30 years of trying, Sir Michael Stoute finally claimed the prize that he had come so close to before when Workforce won the Group One Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp. A field of 19 meant that it was likely to be a rough race and Ryan Moore was in the mid-division, [...]
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