Posted by Cliff at Sep 27th, 2009 in Racing News
While four runners gathered for what looked like a showdown between the great Godolphin and Coolmore, it was the presence of Delegator, Zacinto and Aqlaam and Rip Van Winkle’s victory that won the show at the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.
Rip Van Winkle practically stole the show by giving a granite performance in the Sony-sponsored Group […]
Posted by Cliff at Sep 23rd, 2009 in Racing News
Wednesday saw the gathering of hundreds of mourners paying their last respects ar the funeral of jockey Jan Wilson.
19 year old Wilson who came from Forfar died with her fellow apprentice, 18 year old Jamie Kyne, in a suspected case of arson. It was during the early hours of September 5th that the devastating fire […]
Posted by Cliff at Sep 15th, 2009 in Overseas Racing, Racing News
A female Australian race horse’s future faced doubts on Tuesday when its trainer revealed that the horse was a hermaphrodite having internal testes and thus, high testosterone levels.
It was after she had run a more than convincing race to win easily, that four year old mare Tuscan Abbe had to undergo a hormone test. Her […]
Posted by Cliff at Sep 11th, 2009 in Racing News
After four wins in Germany, Schiaparelli managed to strike a fifth victory at the Ladbrokes St. Leger at Doncaster. With this win, he managed to give Godolphin a first domestic Group One victory for the season. This win also registered the first win for Sheikh Mohammed’s team since the Rule of Law had won the […]
Posted by Cliff at Sep 10th, 2009 in Racing News
Frankie Dettori’s win on Jimmy Styles in the William Hill (Ayr) Gold Cup brought much deserved glory to trainer Clive Cox. In fact, Dettori, his usual confident, business-like yet charismatic self, always looked to be the strongest to win the 150,000 pound sprint handicap from Barney McGrew, who ended up second.
Third place went to Knot […]
Posted by Cliff at Sep 8th, 2009 in Overseas Racing, Racing News
Though I had mentioned that Kieren Fallon would be making a comeback, unfortunately, he didn’t manage to get a ride in the Ladbrokes St. Leger this weekend. He has however been booked to ride Swop for Luca Cumani at a different race at Doncaster on Saturday.
Practically all the probable runners have chosen their riders. And […]
Posted by Cliff at Sep 5th, 2009 in Racing News
As I touched on briefly in a previous post, it has been now been disclosed that Geordieland is one of the 12 six-day acceptors of the DFS Doncaster Cup. This will be Jamie Osborne’s colt’s first appearance after ending up third at Royal Ascot.
He will be facing opponents like Godolphin’s Schiaparelli and Askar Tau under […]
Posted by Cliff at Sep 1st, 2009 in Racing News
Aidan O’Brien has given a warning that Rip Van Wrinkle will most probably not be making it to the line-up for the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, which will be run at Ascot on September 26th.
It was a late foot injury that occurred while the three year old won the Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood that […]
