Eternal Pearl secures Champions Day ticket with Newmarket win

At The Races expert Declan Rix can't overlook Above The Curve at double-digit odds in Saturday's Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot, live on Sky Sports Racing. One of the more open-looking races on Saturday's card, Free Wind headlines the betting for Frankie Dettori and the John & Thady Gosden team. But there's a wealth of opposition who have…

Sky Sports Racing presenter John Hunt is back with six selections across Saturday's Qipco Champions Day card, all live on Sky Sports Racing... We say goodbye to Frankie Dettori as he sets sail for the USA and theoretically, his best chance will be Kinross in the Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes (1.50). However, I'm not quite so sure Kinross is…

So impressive when winning the Group Two Dahlia Stakes at Newmarket in the spring, George Boughey's star mare subsequently struck Group One gold in the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh. The five-year-old was out of luck when dropped back from 10 furlongs to a mile in last month's Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket, but looked set to double her…

With Baaeed and Adayar trained by William Haggas and Charlie Appleby, respectively, today's card, particularly this race, worth £737230 to the winner, will most likely decide which of those two becomes champion trainer. With a perfect ten wins from ten races, Baaeed is one of the best horses to come along in years, and with the last six of those…

BAAEED is the star attraction on British Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday afternoon and he can end on a high with victory in the Group One QIPCO Champion Stakes (British Champions Middle Distance) (4pm). But at cramped odds he is not really a betting proposition but his Willie Haggas' stable-mate SEA LA ROSA certainly is in the Group One QIPCO…

Newsboy fancies Baaeed to take star billing at Ascot as the unbeaten four-year-old bids to bow out in the Champion Stakes with an 11th straight win Ascot hosts the six-race Qipco Champions Day meeting on Saturday October 15 BAAEED tops the bill as a glittering cast list assembles for the £4million QIPCO British Champions Day seasonal finale at…

Sky Sports Racing's Alex Hammond highlights her fancies on Qipco British Champions Day at Ascot including the French raider Sweet Lady. Another flat season reaches its climax on Saturday on Qipco British Champions Day at Ascot. The day was first run in its current guise in 2011 and the new concept was rewarded with Frankel romps in its inaugural…

Verry Elleegant (right): runs in the Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot Francis Graffard might feel he is due a change of luck after recent events but his chief hope for Verry Elleegant's challenge in the Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes (2.40) at Ascot on Saturday is that she can show European audiences her true…

Who will rise to the challenge at Ascot on Saturday? Andy Stephens shares his best bets and suggests potentially underestimated runners to keep in mind. 1.25 Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup (Group 2) THE TIP: ELDAR ELDAROV at a general 5-2 No three-year-old has won this race since it was first run in 2011 but that masks the fact that…

The seven-year-old was runner-up to King Of Change in the 2019 running of the Qipco Champions Day Group One and went one better 12 months later. He could finish only fourth behind the brilliant Baaeed when defending his crown last year, but Graffard is looking forward to seeing his stable stalwart return to Berkshire after finishing second to…

Trainer William Haggas won the Group One contest with Baaeed 12 months ago, but with his unbeaten superstar set to bow out in the Champion Stakes that headlines the Qipco British Champions Day card, there is an opening for a member of the Somerville Lodge squad in the one-mile event that takes place 40 minutes earlier. Maljoom looks the ideal…

Mimikyu: one of five joint-favourites with Ladbrokes for the Fillies & Mares Stakes following the defection of stablemate Free Wind Baaeed, the highest-rated horse in Europe, remains on course for Qipco British Champions Day at Ascot on October 15 following the latest acceptance stage, but Fillies & Mares Stakes favourite Free Wind was a notable…

The four-year-old, who is unbeaten in a ten-race career, will retire to stud after he contests the £1.3 million race over 1m2f, ten years after Frankel bowed out with victory in the 2012 QIPCO Champion Stakes with a record of 14 wins out of 14. After today's scratching stage for the QIPCO Champion Stakes, the Shadwell Estate Company-owned Baaeed is…

Commissioning was similarly convincing on Newmarket's Rowley Mile in Friday's Rockfel (G2). The John and Thady Gosden trainee bounded to a 2 3/4-length decision and earned a berth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1). Commissioning went off as the 7-2 second choice on the step up in class. The 5-2 favorite, Olivia Maralda, set the…

Eternal Pearl booked her place in Charlie Appleby's Qipco British Champions Day squad after finishing with a flourish to extend her winning streak to four in the Princess Royal Al Basti Equiworld, Dubai Stakes at Newmarket. Beaten on each of her first three starts in the spring, the Frankel filly belatedly got off the mark when justifying cramped…

Eternal Pearl booked her place in Charlie Appleby's Qipco British Champions Day squad after finishing with a flourish to extend her winning streak to four in the Princess Royal Al Basti Equiworld, Dubai Stakes at Newmarket. Beaten on each of her first three starts in the spring, the Frankel filly belatedly got off the mark when justifying cramped…

Sea Silk Road (left) and Eternal Pearl clash again at Newmarket on Friday The weights favour Sea Silk Road as she aims to confirm Goodwood placings with Eternal Pearl, but Charlie Appleby believes his filly could prove a different proposition in this intriguing rematch. Sea Silk Road beat Eternal Pearl by half a length in a 1m2f Listed race at…

William Haggas came within less than a length of a Group One double on Sunday, but ultimately both Hamish and Lilac Road had to settle for second best. Hamish gave star stayer Kyprios a real run for his money the Irish St Leger at the Curragh, travelling strongly before being outstayed by the odds-on favourite close home. Lilac Road, meanwhile,…

William Haggas came within less than a length of a Group One double on Sunday, but ultimately both Hamish and Lilac Road had to settle for second best. Hamish gave star stayer Kyprios a real run for his money the Irish St Leger at the Curragh, travelling strongly before being outstayed by the odds-on favourite close home. Lilac Road, meanwhile,…

Hamish gave star stayer Kyprios a real run for his money the Irish St Leger at the Curragh, travelling strongly before being outstayed by the odds-on favourite close home. Lilac Road, meanwhile, failed by just a head to reel in Sweet Lady in the Prix Vermeille and will have one more chance of gaining a so far elusive top-level success before she…

Fans' Favourites is a weekly feature in the Racing Post Weekender in which we talk to those closest to racing's most popular horses and find out why they tug on our heartstrings. This week's subject: Wonderful Tonight Several months may have passed since Wonderful Tonight suffered a career-ending injury while in her pomp but the affection in which…

Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 9:49 am |Back to: Top News Europe Eshaada and Albaflora provide Muhaarar a Group 1 one-two | racingfotos.com By Saturday's G1 QIPCO British Champions Fillies & Mares S. was all about Snowfall (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) beforehand, but in the end it proved as a showcase for Shadwell's Muhaarar (GB) whose…

ADDEYBB can win the QIPCO Champion Stakes (British Champions Middle Distance) (3.50pm) on British Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday afternoon. Willie Haggas' globetrotting seven-year-old can cause another upset and land the Group One feature at the Berkshire track for a second successive year. Juddmonte International Stakes hero Mishriff and Cazoo…