Posts tagged Workforce
Harbinger on top of the world
Jan 11th
One-run wonders are usually the bane of a handicapper’s life but there was no getting away from Harbinger being rated as the best horse to race across the globe in 2010. Read more at: http://horse-racing.bettor.com/harbinger-on-top-of-the-world/news/1337673
Harbinger showed sign of brilliance
Jan 5th
Trying to distil an entire season into one race is rather like pouring a bottle of champagne into a thimble; likely to be a waste of something good. But the performance that Harbinger poured into the two minutes 26.78 seconds it took to win the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot in [...]
Workforce named ROA Horse of the Year
Dec 3rd
Workforce was named as the Horse of the Year at the 29th edition of the ROA/sportingbet.com annual awards. The ceremony was a triumph for both Workforce, the Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner, who also took the three-year-old category and his owner, Prince Khalid Abdullah who capped a magnificent 12 months when receiving [...]
Harbinger still top of World Thoroughbred Rankings
Nov 12th
Given the natural attention that Zenyatta gained for her valiant run when beaten just a head by Blame in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Saturday it is easy to forget the winner. However, the senior handicappers from around the world have the task of dealing with the facts alone and Blame’s head [...]
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
Zenyatta draws stall eight for Breeders’ Cup Classic
Nov 2nd
Zenyatta will be breaking from stall eight as she attempts to sign off her career with the perfect finish in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Saturday. The post-position draw did not appear to work out too badly for Zenyatta but it was yet another nightmare pick for Bob Baffert’s big-race hope Lookin [...]
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 [...]
Strong European challenge for Breeders’ Cup
Oct 27th
Having set records in Santa Anita for the past two years in the Breeders’ Cup, the European challenge for this season’s meeting will be hoping to avoid they fate they met when it was held at Churchill Downs in 1998. Then the best they could muster collectively manage was a third place for Swain in [...]
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 [...]
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