Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup
Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup “Trawlerman” There have been plenty of stars in the Staying division and each of them have had that one season where they were simply unbeatable. For Trawlerman, that season has come in 2025. Whilst many will point to the fact that this performance on Saturday was perhaps below his […]
Qipco British Champions Day 2025
QIPCO british Champions Day 2025 The Flat season has reached its climax and we head to Ascot for Qipco British Champions Day this Saturday to celebrate another fantastic season. All of the sectional times, stride data and performance metrics from Ascot will be available through Total Performance Data this weekend. Here are some of the […]
DragonBet Persian War Novices Hurdle
DragonBet Persian War Novices’ Hurdle (G2) “Sticktotheplan takes the Persian War” Olly Murphy and the Not One But Two partners were immediately rewarded for their Summer acquisition of Sticktotheplan, a 5-year-old son of Great Pretender, as he ran out a 4 length winner of the Grade 2 Persian War Novices’ hurdle on the opening day […]
Gran Premio Selección (G1)
Gran Premio Selección (G1) Palermo 11th October 2025 This was a 3rd Grade 1 success for the Jose Cristobal Blanco trained Charm, who galloped her way to a relatively comfortable success in the Gran Premio Selección at Palermo on Saturday. Having already won the Gran Premio Estrellas and the Gran Premio de Potrancas at San […]
Race2Win Foundation Hyderabad Deccan Derby (G1)
Race2Win Foundation Hyderabad Deccan Derby (G1) “Mountain Jewel shines in Hyderabad” The well supported Mountain Jewel landed the G1 Deccan Derby at Hyderabad on Sunday for trainer Prasanna Kumar. Sent off at an SP of 6/1, she appeared to be well drawn in stall 1, but a slow start, which saw her take the longest […]
Yarmouth 6th October – Blue Nazare
Yarmouth 6th October “Blue Nazare” What looked to be a relatively quiet Monday afternoon at Yarmouth was lit up by Blue Nazare, who won the Fillies’ Novice Stakes for Charlie Appleby and William Buick in the Godolphin blue. She is a daughter of Dubawi out of Silent Wave, who was also a winner on her […]
Juddmonte Spinster Stakes (G1)
Juddmonte Spinster Stakes (G1) “The Drinks are on Gin Gin” The Spinster Stakes was largely billed around the battle between Thorpedo Anna and Nitrogen, but instead it was the Brendan Walsh trained Gin Gin who took an enormous step forward to land a first Grade 1 success. We will come to the beaten favourites in […]
American Pharoah Stakes Present by DK Horse (G1)
American Pharoah Stakes Present by DK Horse (G1) “Intrepido” This year’s American Pharoah Stakes was billed as a match between the Bob Baffert trained pair, Desert Gate and Kristofferson and they were sent off with SPs of 2.38 and 2.63 respectively. However, whilst they looked likely to dominate the race at halfway, Jeff Mullins and […]
Champagne Stakes – Belmont at the Big A
Champagne Stakes (G1) “Napoleon Solo conquers the Champagne Stakes” Napoleon Solo made it 2 wins from 2 starts for Chad Summers as he made every yard to win the Champagne Stakes at Aqueduct on Saturday afternoon. He had been a very comfortable winner of a Saratoga maiden over 6 furlongs at the start of August, […]
Darley Alcibiades Stakes
Darley Alcibiades Stakes “Tommy Jo gets the Alcibiades in the Stewards’ Rooms” Racing can be a game of very fine margins and having seen Time to Dream lose her unbeaten record in the Jessamine Stakes 30 minutes earlier, Todd Pletcher could have been forgiven for thinking it wasn’t going to be his day when Tommy […]