Enable, First Gr.1 Winner Closely Inbred to Sadler’s Wells
Both Epsom classics offered great races and exceptional performances, both by the impressive Oaks winner Enable and the mightily surging Wings of Eagles. As always they offered a number of interesting...
View ArticleBelmont Stakes Winners at Stud
The final instalment of the U. S. Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, run on Saturday, was won by the second favourite and sixth in the Kentucky Derby Tapwrit. The colt is the third son of Tapit, the...
View ArticleSenga, The Most American Winner of the French Oaks in History
A rather unexpected winner of the dramatic Prix de Diane, the French Oaks, was the filly Senga, trained by Pascal Bary and bred by Flaxman Holdings of the Niarchos family. The first Gr. 1 successful...
View ArticleEleven Royal Ascot Mares
Last week was characterised by another edition of Royal Ascot, which – as usual – brought much excellent racing experience. For me personally, one of the strongest moments was the performance of...
View ArticleRemembering Nashwan
It was no easy thing to follow English racing from behind the Iron Curtain. News arrived with terrible delays and the opportunity to watch English or other races live was something that one did not...
View Article300x Park Appeal + 3x Park Appeal Squared
The Saturday meeting at Haydock had its peak in the Lancashire Oaks, a Gr.2 race for three-year-old plus fillies & mares. The race was won by the four-year-old bay filly The Black Princess, bred by...
View ArticleSons of Rock of Gibraltar and Their Way to Better Their Sire
Sons of successful sires, even when they achieved a lot on the racecourse, face much tougher conditions at stud than their predecessors. While at the time when the best stallions covered about forty...
View ArticleThree Interesting Pedigrees of Weekend Winners
The racing weekend saw its peak in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot, in which the three-year-old daughter of Nathaniel, Enable, taught a lesson to older colts and achieved another...
View ArticleHungary and Montjeu’s great granddaughter
This column has focused on black-type winners, stallions whose progeny win black-type races or families and their achievements – again mainly on the black-type scene. Black-type races are the very top...
View ArticleHundred Stakes Winners out of Machiavellian’s Sons’ Daughters
The three-year-old chestnut Sea of Grace won the listed Dick Hern Fillies Stakes at Haydock on Sunday, her second black-type win after the last year’s triumph in the Flame of Tara Stakes. The runner up...
View ArticleStreet Cry, His Daughters and One Connection of Interest
When the six-year-old Australian superstar Winx dominated the Chelmsford Stakes on Saturday, it was her nineteenth triumph in a row. The same number of consecutive victories was achieved by another...
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Galileo, Montjeu and Giant’s Causeway’s Sisters
Camelot, photo CoolmoreThe last weekend was dominated by the Irish Champion Weekend, a meeting full of great races and exceptional horses. As usually, the results of major races brought some...
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Sons of Deep Impact, St. Leger Trial and Two Thousand of Broodmares
Tosen HomareboshiDespite achievements of stallions such as Stay Gold, Fuji Kiseki, Neo Universe, Heart’s Cry, Gold Allure, Special Week, Daiwa Major or Agnes Tachyon is without any doubt that the most...
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17 for Frankel
Frankel, photo Juddmonte FarmEBF Stallions Foundation Stakes (L, 10f) winner MONARCHS GLEN (out of Mirabilis by Lear Fan) is the 17th Blacktype winner by mighty Frankel (Galileo).
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New Blacktype Stallion by Galileo
Singe The Turf, photo Haras Rancho FatimaThe chestnut Singe The Turf, who stands at Haras Rancho Fatima, Peru, is the latest sire of blacktype winner by Galileo. His 3yo daughter Siberia won Gr.3...
View Article3rd Group winner from Frankel's second crop
Somerville Stakes (G3, 7f) winner Elarqam (out of Attraction) is the 18th BT winner by FRANKEL, 3rd from his second crop.
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First Gr.1 winner for Sepoy
photo DarleyThe James Cummings-trained Alizee won the Flight Stakes (Gr.1, 1600 m) at Randwick today to provide Darley stallion Sepoy (Elusive Quality) with his first Group 1 winner.
View Article1-2 for cross WAR FRONT x GALILEO
Middle Park St (G1) 1 -2 for colts by War Front o/o mares by Galileo as U S NAVY won and FLEET REVIEW finished second.
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Fifth blacktype winner for nick Exceed And Excel x Snippets
2yo chestnut colt Performer, winner of Saturday's Breeders Plate (L) at Randwick, became the fifth blacktype winner by Exceed and Excel out of Snippets mare.
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First Gr.1 winner for Harbinger
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Harbinger has first Gr.1 winner. The Japan based stallion is the sire of 3yo filly Deirdre, winner of today's Shuka Sho (Gr.1, 2000m), where his another...
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