Gan Teorainn First To Seven Figures at Tattersalls

Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 4:02 pm |Back to: Europe, The St Mark's Basilica sale-topper from the December Foal Sale | Tattersalls By With the foal sales at Goffs and Tattersalls confined to the rear view mirror, perhaps now is the time to get a good gauge on the young sires coming through. Bragging rights belong to St Mark's Basilica (Fr), who…

The top-class breeding stock sales are coming thick and fast at the moment with the next stop on the circuit the Tattersalls December Mares Sale, which gets underway on Monday morning. Here are six lots to watch during the first two sessions of the sale. Cachet 4yo b f Aclaim - Poyle Sophie (Teofilo) Highclere Stud Lot 1799, Tuesday evening Last…

WITH a winner's purse of over £1.7 million, the Group 1 Ladbrokes Cox Plate at Moonee Valley over the weekend was a great racing highlight. For many, it is Australia's most prestigious race, while the Melbourne Cup is the most famous. The dozen starters contained many household names, but in a blanket finish it was one of the three Irish-bred…

RACEGOERS at ParisLongchamp on Sunday were treated to a classic renewal of the €350000 Prix Royal-Oak over two miles, and the final Group 1 event of the French season. The sole three-year-old in the race, Double Major (Daiwa Major), winner on Arc weekend of the Group 2 Qatar Prix Chaudenay, took the lead at the entrance to the home straight, and…

The top lot on the second day of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale was the son of HAVANA GREY consigned by Kilminfoyle House Stud, who lit up the sales ring when selling for 425000 guineas to the bid of Stroud Coleman Bloodstock's Anthony Stroud with Qatari Mohamed Al Mansour a persistent underbidder. The Whitsbury Manor Stud bred…

A colt by GHAIYYATH topped the opening day of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, one of two lots to sell for one million guineas or more. The average and median were both up on the corresponding session last year whilst the turnover was narrowly down. The GHAIYYATH half-brother to the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner…

The Saxon Warrior (JPN) 3-year-old Unowho was the fourth-stringer of Chris Waller's five-strong entry for the $100000 Super Maiden (1600m) at Warwick Farm on Monday but defied his odds to earn a possible tilt at Victoria Derby. Unowho finishes best in those famous colours! @cwallerracing pic.twitter.com/BKnFHh1U0z - SKY Racing…

Nine fillies have been left standing at the preliminary entry stage in the Group 1 Juddmonte Irish Oaks (3.45) at the Curragh on Saturday with Aidan O'Brien accounting for five of the contenders including Epsom runner-up Savethelastdance and Ribblesdale winner Warm Heart. Be Happy hasn't been seen since finishing second in an Oaks Trial at…

A wide open field of nine sophomore fillies will pursue Grade 1 glory in Saturday's 45th running of the $500000 Fasig-Tipton Belmont Oaks Invitational going 10 furlongs over the inner turf course at Belmont Park. The Fasig-Tipton Belmont Oaks Invitational, slated as Race 8 on the 12-race card, is one of four graded stakes scheduled for the…

Six days before the Derby at Epsom, the Japanese version was run the previous weekend but this year there was something that had become very familiar missing from the line-up at Tokyo - a runner sired by Deep Impact. His absence in that capacity was striking from a race which he had won himself in 2005 on the way to completing Japan's triple crown…

Tahiyra, this year's Irish 1000 Guineas victress (David Betts) By Breandán Ó hUallacháin Tahiyra (2/5f) won the Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas at The Curragh on Sunday, giving her trainer Dermot Weld a sixth victory in the fillies' Group 1 and a 27th European classic. Weld, a former Belmont Stakes-winning trainer with Go and Go in 1990, saw his…

Coming into Sunday's FWD Champions Day meeting-the spring Hong Kong International Races, if you will-two-time Horse of the Year Golden Sixty (Aus) (Medaglia d'Oro), reigning champion middle-distance horse Romantic Warrior (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) and emerging sprinter Lucky Sweynesse (NZ) (Sweynesse {Aus}) had absorbed a gut punch or two over the…

Trained by Michael Miller, Romance In Rome had finished third on debut before finishing second next time out and duly went one better at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday. Under Sporting Post-sponsored Tristan Godden, Romance In Rome was well away in the 1000m Maiden Juvenile Plate and went out to make the running. Asked the question 200m from…

Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 2:52 pm |Back to: Europe, Trevor Stewart | Tattersalls By What you want to hear from a major owner-breeder like Trevor Stewart, the man who has set up a mini empire off the back of buying wondermare Cassandra Go back in 1997, is that there there is a nuanced approach to breeding and, with the right blend of skill and…

By Emma Berry and Brian Sheerin KILDARE, Ireland-The victory of Blackbeard (Ire) in Saturday's G1 Juddmonte Middle Park S. was really just gilding the lily of his sensational juvenile season which has also given a tremendous boost to his yearling sister, who topped the opening day of the Goffs Orby Sale at €2.6 million. From a start to proceedings…

Having come from behind on Aesop's Fables (Ire) in the Futurity half an hour earlier, Ryan Moore was ripping it up from the front on Meditate (Ire) (No Nay Never) as the Belle of Ballydoyle brought up a notable pattern-race double for her sire and a 13th renewal of the G2 Alpha Centauri Debutante S. Out of action since her success in the June 17 G3…

The Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas field boasts several well-pedigreed entrants that are related to other filles and mares that shone in this Classic, including Tuesday (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), whose older full-sister Empress Josephine (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) secured the 2021 edition and her Aidan O'Brien stablemate Lullaby (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), whose…

Native Trail looks set to return to the scene of his most impressive juvenile success this Saturday after featuring among 11 possible runners for the Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas (3.20) following Tuesday's forfeit stage. A sublime winner of last year's Goffs Vincent O'Brien National Stakes, Godolphin's champion two-year-old of 2021 went down…

Such was the impression Expert Eye made in winning the Vintage Stakes at Goodwood impressively that he started odds-on for the Dewhurst Stakes only to disappoint badly. But he bounced back at Royal Ascot the following season with another clear-cut victory, in the Jersey Stakes, outclassed Group 3 rivals again in the City of York Stakes later that…

Having set a new world record for the number of individual two-year-old winners posted by a first-season sire last year, all eyes will be on how Mehmas's first three-year-olds fare in 2021. On the evidence of Keeper Of Time, who defied odds of 80-1 when winning the Group 3 Ballylinch Stud Priory Belle 1000 Guineas Trial Stakes at Leopardstown on…

If Accidental Agent does not manage to regain his Queen Anne Stakes crown, connections will no doubt be hoping his rival Mohaather lands the mile Group 1 instead. Accidental Agent is trained by Eve Johnson Houghton for her mother Gaie, who bred and has raced the six-year-old son of Delegator since he was a vendor buyback at just 8000gns at Book 2…

The 2006 Japan Cup was a chance at redemption for Deep Impact, whose previous exploits on the racetrack made him akin to the Secretariat of Japanese horse racing. A trip to France had not gone according to plan, and he was returning home to rebuild his reputation. In the Japan Cup, he delivered an emphatic two-length victory, and now, 13 years…

One of racing's greatest rivalries met for the last time at the Irish Champion Stakes on Saturday, ending in a thrilling head-to-head showdown as Roaring Lion edged out Saxon Warrior and claimed victory. It was the pair's sixth meeting - with Roaring Lion the favorite to win the 10-furlong feature on day one of Longines Irish Champions…

Point favourite Aces takes home the last race of the day. Russian Realm and Shanghai Glory come second and third. Aces 5/1 Shanghai Glory 11/2 Al Qahwa 7/1 Brian The Snail 6/1 Watchable 7/1 Teruntum Star 11/1 Ashpan Sam 11/1 Reputation 12/1 Boy In The Bar 12/1 Quench Dolly 20/1 George Dryden 25/1 Holiday Magic 25/1 Manshood 25/1 Russian Realm…

Saxon Warrior favorite for Derby Victory could make him worth'probably £40-£50M' Derby most prestigious race of English Classics There will be a race within a race at Saturday's Epsom Derby and one of them could be worth up to £50 million ($66.6M). The Derby, first staged in 1780, is the pinnacle of European Flat racing and comes with a hefty dose…