The Gurkha has surgery for unspecified injury
The Gurkha, one of Europe’s leading 3-year-olds, has been sidelined with an undisclosed injury, his owners announced on Twitter on Saturday.
Steve AndersenAug 13, 2016
The Gurkha, one of Europe’s leading 3-year-olds, has been sidelined with an undisclosed injury, his owners announced on Twitter on Saturday.
The lightly raced longshot Richard Pankhurst won his first group stakes in Saturday’s $194,325 Hungerford Stakes for sprinters at Newbury Racecourse in England.
Galileo Gold and Ribchester, second and third in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse on July 27, can win their first stakes away from England in Sunday's $781,000 Prix Jacques le Marois for turf milers at Deauville Racecourse in France.
Home of the Brave can win the most prestigious race of his career and his fourth stakes race when he starts favored in Saturday’s $194,325 Hungerford Stakes for sprinters at Newbury Racecourse in England.
Dutch Connection, fifth in the Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile at Keeneland last October, can win his second stakes in less than two weeks in Sunday’s $421,600 Prix Maurice de Gheest for sprinters at Deauville, France.
Qemah won her second consecutive Group 1 race, and first against older fillies and mares, in Sunday’s $334,800 Prix Rothschild at Deauville Racecourse in northwest France.
Sunday, Qemah will face older fillies and mares for the first time in the $334,800 Prix Rothschild at a straightaway mile on turf at Deauville Racecourse in northwest France.
Coolmore, trainer Aidan O'Brien, and jockey Ryan Moore won the first Group 1 of the Glorious Goodwood meeting when The Ghurka took down the Sussex Stakes on Wednesday, and the trio will be expected to win the only other Group 1 in the Goodwood menu this week, the Nassau on Saturday, with the filly Minding.
Goldream, a winner of Group 1 sprints in England and France in 2015, will have his first start since March in Friday’s $409,850 King George Stakes at five furlongs on turf at Goodwood Racecourse, a competitive race that drew 17 runners.
The Gurkha turned the tables on Galileo Gold on Wednesday at Goodwood Racecourse, beating him by a neck in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes after Galileo Gold had defeated The Gurkha in the St. James’s Palace Stakes last month at Royal Ascot.