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Team Munce eye Tatt’s Tiara triumph

Image: Gerringong (Credit: Bradley Photos) Buoyed by another fruitful weekend, Chris and Corey Munce are aiming to put the icing on their most successful season to date when mares Gerringong (Blue Point) and Poster Girl (Alabama Express) contest the Tattersall’s Tiara (Gr 1, 1400m) at Eagle Farm this Saturday. The stable’s second Ipswich Cup (Listed,... Read More

Barham keeps it in the family

Image: Joliestar (Black and Gold Cap) (Credit: Bronwen Healy Photography) Joliestar (Zoustar) is set to contest Newmarket’s July Cup (Gr 1, 1207m) next month and to try Royal Ascot again next year, after running a brave but agonising third in Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes (Gr 1, 1207m). Her breeder Chris Barham – the... Read More

‘She’s the best filly’ Precise backs up Irish Guineas win with battling Coronation success

Image: Precise (Credit: Bronwen Healy Photography) It may have been a little tougher than some had expected, but Aidan O’Brien’s star three-year-old filly Precise (Starspangledbanner) registered a second Group 1 for the season, and fourth overall, when toughing out victory in Friday’s Coronation Stakes (Gr 1, 1m) at Royal Ascot. A winner of four of... Read More

Brave Joliestar runs desperately close third as Almeraq springs surprise in Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes

Image: Almeraq (blue and white cap) (Credit: Bronwen Healy Photography) In what was yet another spectacular finish to a feature race at Royal Ascot this week, the William Haggas-trained Almeraq (Dark Angel) spoiled the international party on Saturday when he flew home to deny Japanese raider Satono Reve (Lord Kanaloa) and Chris Waller’s admirable mare... Read More

TON UP!! Tenacious Scandinavia hands Aidan O’Brien his century of Royal Ascot winners under masterful Moore

Image: Scandinavia (Credit: Bronwen Healy Photography) Ballydoyle maestro Aidan O’Brien notched up a century of winners at Royal Ascot on Thursday when Scandinavia (Justify) denied defending champion Trawlerman (Golden Horn) a second Gold Cup (Gr 1, 2m 4f) in yet another extremely engrossing contest at the prestigious meeting. Having proven himself a thorough stayer as... Read More

‘What he did there was mind-blowing’ – Global superstar Ombudsman reigns supreme with pulsating defence of Prince of Wales’s Stakes crown

Ombudsman (right) (Credit: Bronwen Healy Photography) In a display of sheer dominance and authority, the John and Thady Gosden-trained Ombudsman (Night Of Thunder) collected his second successive Prince of Wales’s Stakes (Gr 1, 1m 2f) titles on Wednesday to a rapturous reception from the Royal Ascot crowd. Having run out a brilliant two-length winner of... Read More