Alabama Stakes
Alabama Stakes Presented By Keeneland Sales – Grade 1 Saratoga – 22nd August 2026 I can’t really make any excuses for Counting Stars’ defeat in the Alabama Stakes at Saratoga on Saturday afternoon. She had every chance from the front of a steadily run race and simply couldn’t repel the closing efforts of MY GUN’S […]
Pacific Classic Stakes
Pacific Classic Stakes (G1) Del Mar – 22nd August 2026 “He deserves to be a single figure price for the Keeneland showpiece and is one of the main players to be considered after such an impressive display in the California sunshine”. From the very moment that the stalls opened, Knightsbridge looked like he was going […]
Coolmore City Of Troy Nunthorpe Stakes
Coolmore City Of Troy Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) York – 21st August 2026 “I am struggling to think of a horse who could stay with him over the opening couple of furlongs and if he is in front at the end of the opening quarter of a mile, it seems very unlikely that anything will be […]
Legends Global Yorkshire Oaks
Legends Global Yorkshire Oaks (G1) York – 20th August 2026 “Whilst the manner of her two wins in Group 1 company this year have been very different, the result and the level of performance have been the same. She is a truly top-class mare”. I wrote about Kalpana when she won the King George at […]
Juddmonte International Stakes
Juddmonte International Stakes (G1) York – 19th August 2026 “It may not have been the result that the market expected, but the Juddmonte International was still won by a highly progressive 3-year-old, who finished his race in the manner of a horse who belongs at this level”. Sherlock Holmes would say that “in some cases […]
Christophe Clement Turf Stakes
Christophe Clement Turf Stakes – Grade 1 Saratoga – 15th August 2026 SURVIE has had a very interesting career so far, but she looks to have found her optimal conditions in the US in the last few weeks and having won the G2 Glens Falls Stakes just a fortnight ago, she has now added the […]
Kings Plate
The 167th King’s Plate Stakes Woodbine – 15th August 2026 “Having taken the first leg of the Canadian Triple Crown Series, it would take a very brave punter to want to take on this filly in the next leg if she lines up in the Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie in September” I […]
Hungerford Stakes
Visit Malta Hungerford Stakes (G2) Newbury – 15th August 2026 “He’s a very good horse and he received a very good ride from Hector Crouch, but I can raise just enough doubts from the data and the form to make me say that I would like to see him do this again before I think […]
Westminster 136th Grosser Preis von Berlin (G1)
Westminster 136th Grosser Preis von Berlin (G1) Hoppegarten – 9th August 2026 Sir Mark Prescott and Luke Morris were successful in this race with Alpinista in 2021 when she beat the subsequent Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe winner Torquator Tasso at the start of a series of six Group 1 wins that culminated in her […]
Whitney Stakes
Whitney Stakes – Grade 1 Saratoga – 8th August 2026 “In the Whitney Stakes, Sovereignty got his absolutely ideal race conditions and in this type of scenario, he is a truly exceptional thoroughbred” Sovereignty is back and back in a big way. I’ll be the first to admit when I may have made a mistake […]