Tag: Europe
Pair Of 800k Colts Bought By Godolphin As Tattersalls Craven Continues
Just past the halfway mark during Wednesday’s session, lot 147, a son of Blue Point (Ire), was knocked down to Anthony Stroud for 800,000gns at Park Paddocks. Consigned by Station Yard, the bay colt is out of Platinum Coast (Speightstown), herself a half-sister to multiple graded winner Istanford (Istan) and will race for Godolphin. Bred…
‘I’ve Left My Mark In The Weighing Room’ – Paddy Brennan Retires
Fergal O’Brien and Colin Tizzard were among those to pay tribute to Paddy Brennan, the Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning rider who retired at the age of 43 after partnering Manothepeople (Ire) (Mahler {GB}) to victory at Prestbury Park on Wednesday. Brennan recorded over 1,500 winners in a career as a National Hunt jockey spanning more than…
Godolphin Pays One Million Guineas For Galileo Colt At Tattersalls
The third juvenile to make 525,000gns or more at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale was a colt by the late, great Galileo (Ire) (lot 112), who changed hands for 1 million gns on the bid of Anthony Stroud for Godolphin. Part of the Glending Stables draft, the Coolmore-bred bay–and only representative of his sire in…
Havana Grey Filly Snapped Up For 525k By Godolphin At Tattersalls
Less than 10 lots into the second session of the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale, lot 98 quickly equaled Tuesday’s top price of 525,000gns, going, once again, to Anthony Stroud on behalf of Godolphin. Consigned, just like Tuesday’s New Bay (GB) colt topper, by Katie Walsh’s Greenhills Farm, the Havana Grey (GB) filly is a full-sister…
Cathal Beale To Continue As INS CEO For Another Three-Year Term
Cathal Beale, the current CEO of the Irish National Stud (INS), will serve in the role for another three years, the Board of the INS announced on Wednesday. “The Board of the Irish National Stud is pleased to announce that our chief executive, Cathal Beale, has accepted an offer of a contract extension for a…
Gallopers Aplenty as Classic Hopefuls Swerve Trials
NEWMARKET, UK — The action on the Rowley Mile on Wednesday wasn’t restricted to the seven scheduled races on the card, with a host of potential Classic runners taking part in racecourse gallops just before the first race of the day. The headline act was the Karl Burke-trained Fallen Angel (GB) (Too Darn Hot {GB}),…
Pretty Crystal Leads Dubawi One-Two In The Nell Gwyn
One of the more exposed fillies in the line-up for Wednesday’s G3 Lanwades Stud Nell Gwyn S. at Newmarket, Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum’s Pretty Crystal (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}–Pretty Baby {Ire}, by Orpen) emerged on top of a battle with Dubawi’s other runner Dance Sequence (GB). Sent off at 18-1, the homebred whose five juvenile…
Ottoman Fleet Registers Second Earl Of Sefton Success On European Return
Godolphin’s Ottoman Fleet (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}–Innevera {Fr}, by Motivator {GB}) had won one of five overseas starts since annexing last term’s G3 bet365 Earl Of Sefton S. at Newmarket and made a winning European return with back-to-back victories in Wednesday’s latest renewal of the nine-furlong test. The gelded 5-year-old backed up last term’s…
Appleby Honing Classic Team as Arabian Crown has Racecourse Gallop
NEWMARKET, UK — Charlie Appleby, who takes aim at a fourth victory in the Bet365 Craven S. on Thursday with Native Approach (GB) (Too Darn Hot {GB}), took advantage of the Rowley Mile early on Wednesday morning to give one of his Derby prospects, Arabian Crown (Fr) (Dubawi {Ire}), a racecourse gallop. The winner of…