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This year’s Hong Kong International Vase promises to be one of the best 2400 metre races of the year.
The official announcement of invited runners to the 2017 Hong Kong International races (HKIR) won’t be made until next Wednesday, but early intelligence indicates the four race numbers will be strong despite the absence of runners from Australia and New Zealand, and the Hong Kong Vase (Gr 1, 2400m) may well have greater gravitas than... Read More
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Dynamited (AUS)
2 c Exceed And Excel – Shatters by Lonhro O: Godolphin T: James Cummings B: Darley W: #theraces Handicap, 1100m, Rosehill, 11 November The Godolphin-raced colt Dynamited impressed in scoring in really good style on his racecourse debut at Rosehill last Saturday. The son of Exceed And Excel (Danehill) began well from barrier five under... Read More
Kerrin McEvoy probably won the Darley Classic in the first 200 metres of the race
One of the highlights on the final day of the VRC’s Melbourne Cup Carnival was the Darley Classic (registered as VRC Stakes) (Gr 1, 1200m) – an event that jockey Kerrin McEvoy probably won in the first 200 metres of the race. With a field of high class sprinters, a quick pace throughout was expected... Read More
European Review – Part One – Two-Year-Olds
In a season when Aidan O’Brien surpassed Bobby Frankel’s record of 25 Group / Grade One winners in a calendar year, it was perhaps not the greatest surprise that the Irish champion trainer proved the dominant force on the European two-year-old scene. O’Brien saddled the winner in four of the five British Group One races... Read More
High Chaparral’s Rekindling too strong in Melbourne Cup
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I should have been overjoyed, shouldn’t I? Steve asks
So there they were. OK, they weren’t all there but I was. The owners of the first five winners on the final day of the VRC Cup carnival. Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa al Maktoum and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum who runs a small horse operation called Godolphin. Terry Henderson’s OTI Racing was among... Read More