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Steve’s Travel Diary – PART ONE
PART ONE of Steve’s occasional July travel diary which he hopes will lead him to Del Mar on 22 July which is the date and venue of Arrogate’s (Unbridled’s Song) expected return to the track. I eschewed Royal Ascot this year. For all its wonder, I’ve done it often enough. Instead I boarded a Santiago... Read More
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Royal Symphony’s Fast Sectional Times Confirm He Is A Quality Colt With A Bright Future
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Unbeaten Caravaggio May Run In The Everest
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Steve looks at Woodside Park Stud’s newest shuttler Cable Bay
The son of Invincible Spirit (Green Desert), shuttling between Woodside in Tylden and Highclere Stud in the UK, has already created quite a buzz and an extraordinary response from breeders. “It’s been phenomenal really,” says Woodside bloodstock and sales manager Matt Tillett. “Nine out of every ten phone calls I receive are inquiries about Cable... Read More
Steve ponders the week of Royal Ascot and today’s racing
Lady Aurelia (Scat Daddy) is unlikely to be here I fancy; the weights and tyranny of distance considered. She is yet to be genuinely proven at 1200 metres (her one win at the distance came in a very soft race at Deauville against four others) and she beat up on average UK sprinters in the... Read More