Legendary Irish trainer Dermot Weld filled one final lacuna on his extensive resume – a Breeders’ Cup victory – when Tarnawa roared from off the pace to capture the $3.68 million Turf (G1). The Aga […]
Saturday’s Champions Day card at Ascot was a tough slog for the favorites, with upsets in five of the six races contested on soft going. The overriding themes were landmark wins for connections and a […]
For the third straight year, Magical looms large on Champions Day at Ascot, and trainer Aidan O’Brien is once again considering Saturday’s festival as a possible stepping stone to the Breeders’ Cup. The blockbuster card, […]
The Coolmore partners, supersire Galileo, trainer Aidan O’Brien, and his jockey son Donnacha celebrated a Champions Day double at a boggy Ascot on Saturday. Star filly Magical justified favoritism in the signature event, the Champion […]
Ladies’ Day at Ascot properly belongs to the Royal meeting, but given the preponderance of distaff power in Saturday’s Champion S. (G1), one could be forgiven for wanting to transfer the designation. Five of the […]
While Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) upsetter Waldgeist and dethroned champion Enable are pondering their future, Breeders’ Cup implications from the rest of Sunday’s banner card at ParisLongchamp are likewise in flux. Villa Marina […]
While all eyes are on Enable in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1), Sunday’s ParisLongchamp card is brimming with five other Group 1s. Four are Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” races, and the […]
With a seven-strong posse in Saturday’s Derby (G1), trainer Aidan O’Brien had a terrific chance of earning a record-tying seventh victory in the Epsom classic. Those probabilities increased as four of his runners were involved […]
Training legend Aidan O’Brien sends out a quartet led by favorite Pink Dogwood in Friday’s Oaks (G1) at Epsom, but all-time great Frankel counters with a three-strong posse of daughters – Mehdaayih, Anapurna, and Frankellina […]
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