Consistent sprinter Gytrash sprang a 20/1 surprise in the Group 1 Lightning Stakes (1000m) at Flemington to give Lope de Vega (pictured) his 10th winner at the highest level and he fits a proven pattern of success. Gytrash is the third Gr.1 winner from 338 live foals sired by French Champion Three-year-old and dual Gr.1
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Beauty Generation, returned to the winner’s circle, and Time Warp upset stablemate Exultant in Group 1 features at Sha Tin with both slated for potential trips to Dubai. Beauty Generation (Road To Rock), Hong Kong’s reigning Horse of the Year, snapped a four-race losing streak, rallying from off the pace to win the Queen’s Silver
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Laminitis has led to the retirement of the 2019 Kentucky Derby winner Country House. Country House has not raced since being awarded the Kentucky Derby following the disqualification of Maximum Security however, a series of issues means the son of Lookin’ At Lucky has been retired. Owner Blackwood Stables issued a statement on February 14
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English breeders Richard and Sally Aston paid €62,000 for a 1/50th share in jumps stallion No Risk At All on the final day of the Arqana February mixed bloodstock sale. The 13yo son of My Risk has commenced his eighth season at Haras de Montaigu at €7,000, having covered a book of 119 mares in
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A tendon injury has forced the retirement of Group 2 winner Yes Yes Yes who will take up stallion duties at Coolmore, where he will stand alongside his sire Rubick. Trainer Chris Waller released a statement Monday morning, confirming the news that vets had found a small lesion in a tendon in his near foreleg.
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Crocus Stakes (1400m) at Tokyo winner Lauda Sion is the first SW for Real Impact (Deep Impact). Previously third in the Group 3 Kokura Nisai Stakes, Lauda Sion has won three of his five starts to date and is a half-brother to Japan Listed placed Ambrosio (Rose Kingdom). Winner of the Group 1 George Ryder
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Good Effort became the 144th stakes winner for Shamardal when winning the Listed Cleves Stakes (6f) on the all-weather track at Lingfield on February 1. The five-year-old, bred by Rabbah Bloodtock, is 4×4 to Mr Prospector, a grandson of Grade 1 Garden City Breeders’ Cup Handicap winner Indy Five Hundred (A P Indy) and has
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Grade 3 Withers Stakes (9 fur) at Aqueduct winner Max Player is the first Graded winner from the first-crop of Honor Code (A P Indy). A half-brother to English Group 2 juvenile winner Seahenge, Max Player is 4×3 to Mr Prospector and has won two of his three starts. The champion older dirt male of
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Sweynesse (Lonhro) was represented by his first stakes winner from his first-crop when Bonita Aurelia took Saturday’s Group 3 Taranaki 2yo Classic at New Plymouth. Bred by Godolphin, Sweynesse won twice at Group 3 level in Australia and is advertised at $6,000 at Novara Park in New Zealand.
A pair of German Group 2 races and a distance change for two key French 2-year-old races were among the outcomes of the European Pattern Committee’s annual meeting at the British Horseracing Authority offices on January 23. Germany suffered most with its Meilen Trophy and Goldene Peitsche downgraded from Group 2 status, and the Group
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