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Fame and Glory, second to Sea the Stars in last year's Irish Champion Stakes, is among five horses trainer Aidan O'Brien has to choose from for Saturday's race.
A strong argument can be made that the Irish Champion Stakes, which will have its 35th running at Leopardstown on Saturday, is the best race in the world. Since 1984, its winners have included the great stallion Sadler’s Wells, the wonder filly ...Full Story >>
TODAY 09.03.2010
A field of six goes to post for Sunday’s Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, and an intriguing clash looks assured for what is always a high-quality race. English raider Paco Boy will undoubtedly benefit from the absence of Makfi and Goldikova, ...
YESTERDAY 09.02.2010
By International Racing Bureau
Rip Van Winkle is stable jockey Johnny Murtagh’s choice of three Aidan O’Brien-trained mounts in Saturday’s Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown. The winner of the Juddmonte International at York last month, Rip Van Winkle is ...
08.31.2010
By Alan Shuback
William Hill rates defending champ Zenyatta and Preakness and Haskell winner Lookin At Lucky as 4-1 co-favorites for the Breeders’ Cup Classic as the British bookmakers opened for Cup business on Tuesday. Hill offers Whitney winner Blame at 6-1, ...
By Glenye Cain Oakford
LEXINGTON, Ky. – German Horse of the Year and leading sire Lomitas has died at age 22. The Racing Post has reported the Niniski horse was euthanized in Germany due to failing health, ending one of the most eventful equine lives in racing.
08.30.2010
By Alan Shuback
Overdose’s unbeaten record came to a crashing end at Baden-Baden on Sunday as the Budapest Bullet weakened to finish seventh as the 3-5 favorite behind the 7.80-1 Amico Fritz in the Group 2, $89,000 Godene Peitshce, Germany’s championship ...
08.29.2010
By Alan Shuback
Misty for Me handed even-money favorite Memory a resounding defeat in the Group 1, $300,000 Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday as she led throughout to take the seven-furlong race by a length from Laughing Lashes.
08.27.2010
By Alan Shuback
Memory is the odds-on favorite for Sunday’s Group 1, $300,000 Moyglare Stud Stakes, the key Curragh test for juvenile fillies in Ireland, as she steps up to seven furlongs for the first time in an attempt to win for the fourth time without ...
By Alan Shuback
The saga of Overdose continues at Baden-Baden on Sunday when the undefeated Hungarian sprinter will be tested in Germany’s premier dash, the Group 2, $89,000 Goldene Peitsche at six furlongs.
08.20.2010
By Alan Shuback
Libranno, perhaps the best of Richard Hannon’s five juvenile group-race winners this year, heads a contentious Group 1 Prix Morny at Deauville on Sunday. A six-furlong sprint worth $448,000, the Morny includes five group-race winners at this ...
By Alan Shuback
Sole Power, a 100-1 rank outsider, upset runner-up Starspangledbanner in the Group 1, $374,000 Nunthorpe Stakes at York on Friday as a second 100-1 shot, Piccadilly Filly, filled the third spot in the five-furlong dash.