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The Dewhurst Stakes 2023 trends, ahead of Saturday's big Newmarket juvenile race, will tell us if there are any horses that might be able to upset the hot favourite City Of Troy, as trainer Aidan O'Brien looks to win the UK's best 2 year-old race for an eighth time. ��Time: 2:00pm��Date: Saturday 14th Oct 2023��Racecourse: Newmarket (7f)��: Winner:…

Timeform's Tony McFadden highlights three talking points for the first day of Royal Ascot. First published on Sunday Can Asadna confirm big impression in more competitive environment? Few juveniles have created such a big impression on debut as Asadna, who may not have beaten much in a six-furlong novice at Ripon last month but did so by 12 lengths…

Ballydoyle maestro Aidan O'Brien has trained a remarkable 81 Royal Ascot winners and is closing in on Sir Michael Stoute's record of 82 victories at the Royal meeting. This year it looks like O'Brien has a typically strong hand heading over to Berkshire for the five-day meeting, kicking off on Tuesday June 20, all live on Sky Sports Racing. We have…

Oisin Murphy is confident Hi Royal can put up another good showing as the Newmarket second takes on 10 rivals in Saturday's Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas. The Kevin Ryan-trained colt outran odds of 125-1 to chase home Chaldean for the silver medal in the 2000 Guineas earlier this month and will now bid to confirm form over the supplemented Royal…

Oisin Murphy is confident Hi Royal can put up another good showing as the Newmarket second takes on 10 rivals in Saturday's Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas. The Kevin Ryan-trained Hi Royal outran odds of 125-1 to chase home Chaldean for the silver medal in the 2000 Guineas earlier this month and will now bid to confirm form over the supplemented…

Oisin Murphy is confident Hi Royal can put up another good showing as the Newmarket second takes on 10 rivals in Saturday's Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas. The Kevin Ryan-trained colt outran odds of 125-1 to chase home Chaldean for the silver medal in the 2000 Guineas earlier this month and will now bid to confirm form over the supplemented Royal…

Use our 2023 Irish 2000 Guineas trends to find the best profiles based on past winners of the race. It's a Group One Curragh prize that trainer Aidan O'Brien has won a remarkable eleven times and will be well represented again this Saturday. We've had the English Guineas earlier this month but this weekend the focus switches to the Ireland for…

3.40 Newmarket 1m (Rowley) Qipco 1000 Guineas Stakes (Group 1) The fillies' Guineas is the second of the season's five Classics and is the first aimed solely at female three-year-old horses (the other is the Oaks which is run at the Derby meeting at Epsom) This renewal is run over a one-mile track, just like the male equivalent, the 2000 Guineas,…

First run back in 1814, the 1000 Guineas is a Group One flat race run over 1m just for 3 year-old fillies. The contest is one of the five English Classics and staged at Newmarket racecourse in late April or early May each year. It's the second of the five English Classics with the 2000 Guineas run the day before being the first, while winners of…

There has apparently been at least one alleged possible sighting of the Loch Ness Monster this year. Though as something which may, or may not, have been Nessie was caught on webcam footage rather than being reported by an eyewitness, a recent change to the rules means that it can't be logged as an entry in the'Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings…

The first Classic of the season, the Qipco 2000 Guineas, takes place on Saturday at Newmarket. We've taken a look at previous trends to try to help pick the winner. It takes a class horse to win the 2000 Guineas and in the last ten years, eight winners have been officially rated 110 or higher. Night Of Thunder and Poetic Flare, who were both rated…

The first two classics of the flat racing season are the 1000 and 2000 Guineas. They take place at the home of British flat-racing, Newmarket, on the Rowley Mile course during the last weekend in April or, more commonly, the first weekend in May. Raced over a mile, the 1000 Guineas is restricted to three-year-old fillies. It takes place on Sunday,…

The 2023 Flat season is underway and about to kick into top gear with the first of the Classics - the Qipco 2000 Guineas and 1000 Guineas - looming on the horizon on the first weekend in May, before the Betfred Derby and Oaks at Epsom a month later. Before that, though, we have the three-day Craven meeting at Newmarket to get stuck into, where we…

Father Gianfranco Dettori (13-time champion jockey in Italy; won 2000 Guineas on Bolkonski 1975, Wollow 1976) Apprenticed to Luca Cumani, Newmarket 1987-89 First winner Rif, Turin, November 16, 1986 First winner in Britain Lizzy Hare, Goodwood, June 9, 1987 Lost claim Versailles Road, Beverley, July 18, 1989 First Group winner Legal Case (1989…

Reference Point, High Chaparral, Motivator, Authorized, Camelot. All won the Vertem Futurity Trophy at two and the Derby at three between 1986 and 2011, but the fab five haven't been joined by another horse in the last decade. Perhaps the-times-they-are-a-changin'? The Doncaster race has become more of a pointer towards the 2000 Guineas in recent…

The final Group-1 contest of the season, the Vertem Futurity Trophy, takes place at Doncaster on Saturday. Recent winners include Magna Grecia, Saxon Warrior and Kameko. All three went on to win the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket the following spring. An additional five winners later claimed the Derby at Epsom. The Aidan O'Brien-trained Camelot was the…

Nijinsky remains the last colt to have won the Triple Crown - a feat he accomplished with Piggott aboard in the 2000 Guineas, Derby and St Leger. Nijinsky outclassed his 2000 Guineas rivals in the paddock and on the racecourse, sweeping through most impressively to beat the top-class Yellow God by two and a half lengths. For the first and only time…

He got off the mark on his racecourse debut in a seven-furlong maiden at the Irish Derby meeting at The Curragh last year, getting home by a whisker in in one of the most exciting finishes of the entire 2021 season. Ger Lyons' colt stepped forward from that on his second and final run last season when he landed the Group 2 KPMG Champions Juvenile…

for all the Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas runners and riders, form, Timeform ratings and commments plus the very latest betting Native Trail can cement a Classic season that can so far hardly have gone better for Charlie Appleby with victory in the Tattersalls-sponsored Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh on Saturday. The Oasis Dream colt was a hot…

The 2000 Guineas runner-up Native Trail will bid to go one better in the Irish equivalent race this weekend at the Curragh. The first Irish classic of the season takes place at the Kildare venue, with strong fields likely to assemble for the 2000 Guineas (on Saturday) and 1000 Guineas (Sunday). Native Trail was only just beaten by his stablemate…

Nobody has trained more 2000 Guineas winners than Aidan O'Brien. It is 24 years since he won the colts' Classic for the first time with King Of Kings, and he has won it nine times since, including three times in the last five years and four times in the last seven. Interestingly, Aidan O'Brien has fielded more than one runner in the 2000 Guineas in…

When Joseph O'Brien won his first Classic as a trainer - the 2018 Irish Derby with Latrobe - the next four home were all trained by his father Aidan. It had been a similar story two years earlier when Joseph's first Group 1 success as a trainer came in the Moyglare Stud Stakes in which Intricately was chased home by a pair of Ballydoyle fillies.…

The 2000 Guineas is the premier Classic race for three-year-old colts over a mile. The race is open to fillies but their participation is rare - the last one to run in it was 59 years ago. Held on the Rowley Mile course at Newmarket, the 2000 Guineas is the first race in the British Champion Series and is sponsored by Qatari investment company…

Churchill (Galileo - Meow (Storm Cat)) Trainer: Aidan O'Brien Sky Bet Odds: 6/4 favourite Churchill bids to become the third son of Galileo to win the QIPCO 2000 Guineas on Saturday and there are distinct similarities in his pedigree to the previous two. Frankel and Gleneagles are the two Galileo colts that have previously won the Guineas and for…