No Speak Alexander is the first Gr1 winner for Shalaa winning Saturday’s Matron Stakes at Leopardstown. Settled in third place to the home turn as Shale set the pace, No Speak Alexander gradually asserted her superiority over Shale to strike the front a furlong out with Mother Earth and Pearls Galore looking to come through
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Mouillage is SW17 and 4th in the last seven days for Toronado winning Friday’s Prix Millkom (1600m) for 3yos at La Teste. Settled in third as Izlaz set the early pace, Mouillage was ridden along to challenge into the home straight and went on to defeat the fast finishing Leopards Park (Siyouni) by a quarter
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Sunday’s Deauville Group 3 winner Garrus is the 28th Group winner for Acclamation and another example of a growing pedigree combination his sire enjoys. The first stakes winner in the first three generations of his female pedigree which further back includes Group 1 winner Danehill Dancer, the Max Morris-bred Garrus (pic: Twitter) is out of
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Mintd is SW8 for Olympic Glory winning Saturday’s Gr3 Mint Julep Stakes (8.5f) for females at Churchill Downs. Mintd enjoyed an economical run smothered away along the inside before angling out around the home turn then finished best to defeat the favourite Juliet Foxtrot (Dansili) by half a length. Previously Listed placed in Ireland, Mintd
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So You Think was the busiest stallion in Australia in 2020. Figures released by the Australian Stud Book show that the Coolmore stallion covered the largest book of mares in the season with 261 mares at a fee of A$38,500, up from the 234 mares he covered at the same for in 2019. The current
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Good Listener is first-crop winner 39 for Mehmas winning at Windsor on Monday. The victory takes Mehmas past the previous best for a European first-season sire since 2000 of 38 set by Iffraaj in 2010 Mehmas currently has four stakes winners and we looked at his background back in August. Read here.
Acklam Express is first-crop SW4 for Mehmas after winning the Roses Stakes (5f) at York. Running for the fourth time, Acklam Express came out on top to defeat Queen Of Rio (Prince Of Lir) by a nose with Nomadic Empire (Kodiac) a head away third. It is the third win for Acklam Express which cost
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Minzaal is first-crop SW3 for Mehmas after winning the Gr2 Gimcrack Stakes (6f) at York. Back in the pack through the first half, Minzaal came through smoothly after halfway to press for the lead then stayed on well to defeat Devilwala (Kodiac) by two lengths with Mystery Smiles (Mehmas) close up third. It is the
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It’s a fair bet that, in the future, there will be many statistics carrying an asterisk alongside them in the surreal year that is 2020. Regardless of what will transpire around the world for the rest of this crazy year, the performance of first-season sire Mehmas is certainly shaping with promise. Wednesday’s winning debut by
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Katara is SW159 for Deep Impact after comfortably winning Saturday’s Chalice Stakes (12f) at Newmarket. Waited with midfield by Oisin Murphy, Katara was delivered to challenge two furlongs out and ran on strongly up the hill to defeat Expressionism (Galileo) by four-lengths with Cosmic Princess (Kingman) filling third place. Bred and raced by Al Shaqab,
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