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Serpentine brings up Derby/Oaks double for Galileo and O’Brien
Just over an hour after Galileo’s (Sadler’s Wells) daughter Love took out the Oaks (Gr 1, 1m 4f), the stallion became the first since his own father in 2001 to sire the winner of the Classic double, as his son Serpentine ran away with the Derby (Gr 1, 1m 4f) at Epsom yesterday. In one... Read More
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Rich Enuff lands first stakes winner
Woodside Park Stud’s first season sire Rich Enuff (Written Tycoon) joined a select group by producing a stakes winner from his first crop when Plutocrat took out the Tattersall’s Club Stakes (Listed, 1400m) at Eagle Farm yesterday. Rich Enuff joined Night Of Thunder (Dubawi), Pride Of Dubai (Street Cry), Headwater (Exceed And Excel), I’m All... Read More
Madam Rouge expected to race on next season after Stradbroke placing
Zoustar mare unlikely to back up in Dane Ripper at Eagle Farm Stradbroke Handicap (Gr 1, 1400m) runner-up Madam Rouge (Zoustar) is a doubtful starter in Saturday’s Dane Ripper Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m) with connections confident the rising five-year-old has bigger things in store next season. The Chris Waller-trained Madam Rouge, a dual stakes-winning daughter... Read More
Irish racing returns with a taste of Australia
You may not hear Advance Australia Fair at Leopardstown tonight – although there is an Order Of Australia listed on the card – but there is set to be a true Australian flavour to the second Irish card back post Covid-19. Russian Emperor (Galileo), the third foal out of four-time Australian Group 1 winner Atlantic... Read More
Kameko dethrones Pinatubo in 2000 Guineas
The winning run of sensational colt Pinatubo (Shamardal) has ended after last year’s Vertem Futurity Trophy (Gr 1, 1m) winner Kameko (Kitten’s Joy) took out the 2,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1m) in front of an empty Rowley Mile grandstand at Newmarket yesterday. Trained by Andrew Balding and ridden by Oisin Murphy, Kameko settled behind Arizona... Read More
Victorian spring carnival dates to remain unchanged in 2020
Racing Victoria has rejected a proposal to make sweeping changes to the 2020 spring carnival. In a Melbourne Racing Club-backed move, plans were tabled to shift the Caulfield Cup (Gr 1, 2400m) from a traditional mid-October date to a late November timeslot. The proposal would have upended decades of thoroughbred racing tradition by running the... Read More