Bonfire set for Dee Stakes reappearance
Andrew Balding’s exciting three-year-old prospect Bonfire looks set to make his seasonal reappearance at Chester’s May meeting when contesting the Group 3 Addleshaw Goddard Dee Stakes at the Cheshire venue on May 11, where a positive outcome could see him line up for the Investec Derby at Epsom three weeks later, writes Elliot Slater. Currently [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2012 by Thomas | Filed Under Horse Racing
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Classy Nahrain stays in training at four
The news that Roger Varian’s smart filly Nahrain will stay in training this season as a four-year-old means that fans of the daughter of Selkirk can look forward to seeing her in many of the feature 10 furlong events of the season, with the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot looking a [...]
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Posted on April 20, 2012 by Thomas | Filed Under News
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National star Neptune lays the ghost of beloved One Man
Few people have proved more loyal supporters of the sport of National Hunt racing than the popular racehorse owner John Hales whose One Man was a superstar of the sport in the mid-1990’s but who sadly met an untimely ended as the result of a fall on the Mildmay course at Aintree in 1998. The [...]
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Posted on April 18, 2012 by Thomas | Filed Under Horse Racing, Horses, News
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Pearl may put her Guineas claims on the line at Leopardstown
The Ger Lyons-trained Lightening Pearl could make her eagerly anticipated seasonal bow on Sunday in the Group 3 Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial Stakes over seven furlongs, a contest that may well see her book her ticket for a place in the line-up for the Qipco 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on May 6 , writes Elliot [...]
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Posted on April 18, 2012 by Thomas | Filed Under Horse Racing
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Cityscape on standby to replace Frankel in Lockinge
Prince Khaled Abdullah’s Cityscape, a tremendously impressive winner on World Cup night in Dubai, last month, when slamming smart opposition to land the Group 1 Dubai Duty Free by four-and-a-half-lengths from Mutahadee, has been put on standby to take his chance in the Group 1 Lockinge Stakes. Cityscape will serve as cover for the red-hot [...]
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Posted on April 18, 2012 by Thomas | Filed Under Horse Racing, Horses
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