May 3, 20232 yr Author Alan King says there is a "strong possibility" that we could see Trueshan over hurdles in the autumn.
May 5, 20232 yr Author Tom Marquand may be in danger of missing the first two Classics of the season after being injured on the way to post at Newmarket on Friday.
May 11, 20232 yr Author A field of 6 have been Declared for the G2 Huxley Stakes on Friday over 1m2f. - Point Lonsdale 7/4 - Foxes Tale 5/1 - Mujtaba 5/1 - Poker Face 5/1 - Layfayette 8/1 - Royal Champion 10/1
May 11, 20232 yr Author Saturday's card at Lingfield Park will be staged on the all-weather track and not the turf track. The Oaks and Derby trial will be run over 1m4f as opposed to the 1m3f.
May 12, 20232 yr Author Three-time champion jockey Silvestre de Sousa has been suspended for 10 months after pleading guilty to a betting charge. De Sousa, who has raced in Hong Kong since September, is banned until 12 March 2024. His Brazilian compatriot Vagner Borges has been handed a 12-month ban for the same offence. The Hong Kong Jockey Club said Borges "had an interest in a bet" on his mount Young Brilliant in a race on 26 April.
May 13, 20232 yr Author Black Poppy wins the Pertemps Network Swinton Handicap Hurdle at Haydock Park.
May 16, 20232 yr Author Martin Smith has become the first Newmarket trainer to quit the sport in 2023 after rising costs forced him to hand in his licence last week.
May 17, 20232 yr Author Anthea Leigh, raceday clerk of the course, said: “Unfortunately Creative Force sustained an unrecoverable leg injury.”
May 18, 20232 yr Author The market for the Grade 1 Grande Course Des Haies D'Auteuil: Auteuil 3m2f - Klassical Dream 7/2 - Theleme 7/2 - Hewick 9/2 - Flooring Porter 6/1 - Asterion Forlonge 8/1 - Hermes Baie 8/1 - Kilcruit 10/1 - Feronily 12/1 - Haut En Couleurs 14/1
May 20, 20232 yr Author Theleme thwarted a strong challenge from Ireland to land the French Champion Hurdle at Auteuil for trainer Arnaud Chaille-Chaille and rider Gaetan Masure. The Racing TV Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil has proved a happy hunting ground for challengers from Ireland and Britain in the past but Theleme led home a one-two for the home team on this occasion as he denied last year's winner Hermes Baie in second. Klassical Dream, one of four runners in the race for trainer Willie Mullins, who was looking for his sixth win in the race, fared best of the challengers in third, with the Shark Hanlon-trained Hewick in fourth
May 20, 20232 yr Author Frankie Dettori's retirement tour continued to be a roaring success at York's Dante meeting with Group wins in the Musidora and Middleton for John and Thady Gosden and the legendary rider has been backed for more big-race success at Newbury on Saturday. Dettori struck on Soul Sister and Free Wind on the Knavesmire and can continue a superb week for the Gosdens when he partners Laurel for the first time in the day's feature Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes (3.35).
May 20, 20232 yr Author Modern Games came with a sustained surge to land the Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes despite runner-up Chindit biting winning jockey William Buick in the closing stages. Chindit had charged through to lead under jockey Pat Dobbs with two furlongs remaining, but Modern Games swept through towards the rail to challenge him as the race reached its climax. As Buick gained the upper hand, Chindit stretched out his head and bared his teeth, catching the champion jockey. “He got my hand – I definitely noticed it,” Buick said, with ITV Racing presenter Oli Bell saying he could see blood on the jockey’s hand. “They had a real tussle but this horse is a real superstar.
May 20, 20232 yr Author Love Wars produced an extraordinary victory on her racecourse debut at Thirsk, overcoming a disastrous start and showing a blistering turn of foot to win despite trading at odds of 999-1 in-running on the Betfair Exchange. The John Quinn-trained juvenile violently swerved left at the start and momentarily stopped to a standstill in a dramatic beginning to the 5f maiden fillies' stakes, but jockey Jason Hart was able to salvage her chance and nudge her along to a position in rear.
May 20, 20232 yr Author Star filly Nashwa, winner of the Group 1 Prix de Diane and the Nassau Stakes last season, will start her four-year-old career in the Group 2 Prix Corrida at Saint-Cloud on Sunday week. As well as her two wins at the highest level, Nashwa finished third in the Oaks at Epsom, a narrow second in the Prix de l'Opera on Arc day and fourth at the Breeders' Cup last year, and could test her mettle against the opposite sex at the highest level this season.
May 20, 20232 yr Author Melbourne in November is on the mind of breeder and part-owner Gerry Byrne after his four-year-old Yashin caused a 14-1 surprise in the Group 3 Saval Beg Levmoss Stakes under Shane Foley. In a race run at a muddling gallop, odds-on favourite Emily Dickinson was there to be shot at turning in, but was unable to see it out and faded to finish sixth. Foley brought Yashin with a sustained run on the outer and got up on the line to see off the Joseph O'Brien-trained Point King by a short head. And who knows, they might meet again in the Melbourne Cup in six months' time.
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