Following his fourth-place finish in Saturday’s Cigar Mile (G1), Mendelssohn is retiring to stud at Coolmore America. Last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) winner and reigning UAE Derby (G2) record-setter was already advertised to […]
Trainer John Gosden entered Champions Day with a quartet of favorites dubbed the “four horses of the Apocalypse,” and three prevailed on Saturday’s blockbuster card at Ascot. Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) candidate Roaring Lion showed […]
One of the spring’s most captivating debut winners, Just Wonderful subsequently failed to fire on the big stage, but the Aidan O’Brien pupil erased those memories with a sparkling display in Friday’s Rockfel (G2) at […]
Going into Saturday’s Stars and Stripes Festival at Belmont Park, the Aidan O’Brien-trained Athena found herself in the shadow of male stablemates Mendelssohn and Hunting Horn. But the colts failed to deliver when third in […]
MERCHANT NAVY just held by a short head over City Light to take the Diamond Jubilee Stakes (Eng-G1) on the final day of the 2018 Royal Ascot meet Saturday. With jockey Ryan Moore aboard, the […]
Trainer Wesley Ward has become a mainstay at Royal Ascot, but was in danger of being shut out during the 2018 stand. On Thursday, however, Breeze Easy LLC’s SHANG SHANG SHANG nosed out her male […]
Sir Michael Stoute registered his 76th Royal Ascot win on Wednesday when POET’S WORD captured the Prince of Wales’s Stakes (Eng-G1) under jockey James Doyle. In the process, the veteran horseman became the winningest trainer […]
About eight hours before Mendelssohn bids for an historic Kentucky Derby (G1) victory, master Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien made history across the pond Saturday as unbeaten Saxon Warrior handed him a record ninth score in […]
At Santa Anita on Sunday, Kentucky Derby (G1) contender Bolt d’Oro posted his first work since finishing second to likely Derby favorite Justify in the April 7 Santa Anita Derby (G1), a seven-furlong drill in […]
While it’s virtually a foregone conclusion that Ryan Moore will ride Mendelssohn in the Kentucky Derby (G1), rather than stay home for Newmarket’s 2000 Guineas (G1) on the same day, there’s an element to this […]
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