Sunday’s Prix Marcel Boussac – Criterium des Pouliches (1600m) for 2yo fillies at ParisLongchamp winner Zellie is the fifth Gr1 winner for Wootton Basset. Settled well off the early pace, Zellie came through along the inside in the home straight and finished best of all to defeat Times Square (Zarak) by 1-3/4 lengths with Oscula
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Visualisation is SW33 for No Nay Never winning the Listowel Stakes in Ireland. Visualisation was ridden into an early lead, challenged by Casanova two furlongs out but staying on strongly to score by 2-1/2 lengths over Geometrical (Dawn Approach) with Casanova (Frankel) close up third. It is the fourth win from nine starts for the
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Topgear is SW24 and the 14th Group winner for Wootton Bassett remaining unbeaten in Friday’s Gr3 Prix Eclipse (1200m) for 2yos at Chantilly. Settled in fourth place to halfway, Topgear ran to the lead 400m out and then found plenty when challenged strongly over the final 200m and did enough to defeat Best Flying (Pedro
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Mackinnon is SW21 for American Pharoah winning Monday’s Del Mar Juvenile Turf (8f) for 2yos. Content to race three wide by Juan Hernandez, Mackinnon found more in the home straight and came away to defeat Thirty Four Coupe (Run Away And Hide) by one and three-quarter lengths with Silver Surfer (Caravaggio) a nose away third.
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Desert Lord is SW134 for High Chaparral winning Friday’s Goldmarket Handicap (1200m) at Gold Coast Settled just behind the early speed in fifth place, Desert Lord was angled out into running room in the home straight and finished best of all to defeat Tramonto (Wandjina) and Totally Charmed (I Am Invincible). It is the seventh
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Royal Patronage is SW20 for Wootton Bassett winning the Gr3 Acomb Stakes (7f) for 2yos at York Royal Patronage made virtually all the running over his four rivals and stayed on strongly to defeat Imperial Fighter (The Gurkha) by 2-1/4 lengths with the favourite, Dubawi Legend (Dubawi), a further two lengths away in third. A
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Think It Over is seventh Gr1 winner for So You Think winning Saturday’s George Ryder Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill. Think It Over graduated to Gr.1 level with a hard fought success, coming from worse than midfield to the home turn and then finishing strongly between horses to edge Avilius and Dreamforce in a driving finish
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Coolmore has announced it will add Wootton Bassett to it’s Australian roster for the 2021 southern hemisphere season. “We are very excited by this opportunity to offer Australasian mare-owners a proven sire of Wootton Bassett’s calibre,” Coolmore Australia’s Tom Magnier said in a statement. “He is a magnificent dark brown horse with a fabulous head
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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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Thankful is SW14 for American Pharoah winning the Ladies Hcp (9f) at Aqueduct. Racing in second place to the home turn, Thankful drew alongside longtime leader Miss Mariss (He’s Had Enough) with a furlong to go and eased clear for a three-quarter length victory. Ujjayl (Smarty Jone) was a neck away in third. (pic: NYRA)
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