Shimrano heads 18-horse German Derby
Shimrano, a Group 2 winner in Cologne, Germany, last month, is the probable favorite in Sunday’s $721,500 German Derby at Hamburg Racecourse
Steve AndersenJul 03, 2015
Shimrano, a Group 2 winner in Cologne, Germany, last month, is the probable favorite in Sunday’s $721,500 German Derby at Hamburg Racecourse
Lovely Day won his first Grade 1 race and his fourth stakes in Sunday’s $2,347,348 Takarazuka Kinen at Hanshin Racecourse in Japan, earning a fees-paid berth for the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland on Oct. 31.
Treve was the future-book favorite for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in Paris in October before Sunday’s $448,000 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. After she won the Group 1 race over a strong field, she became a standout favorite.
Jack Hobbs, second in the English Derby on June 6, was the dominant winner of Saturday’s $1,288,000 Irish Derby at The Curragh, giving trainer John Gosden a third classic win of the month.
A recent win in the Grade 1 Tenno Shomakes Gold Ship the favorite to win the Takarazuka Kinen for the second consecutive year when the $2,347,348 race is run on Sunday at Hanshin Racecourse in Japan.
Treve already has earned a place in racing history as the winner of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris in 2013 and 2014. On Sunday, the 5-year-old Treve will start at a racecourse a matter of miles from Longchamp when she runs in the $448,000 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud against males.
It’s a fair assumption that no Group or Grade 1 race anywhere in the world has been dominated by a trainer to the extent Aidan O’Brien has owned the Irish Derby. O’Brien won the race seven years in a row before fellow Irishman Jim Bolger won in 2013 with Trading Leather, but O’Brien was back on top last season with Australia, giving him eight wins in nine years and 10 in the last 14.
Another Royal Ascot meeting, another milestone for trainer Wesley Ward, who continues to defy the widely held notion European horses are simply better on turf than their American counterparts.
Wesley Ward did it again, taking down his biggest Royal Ascot prize yet as Undrafted won the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes on the closing-day card of the 2015 meeting.
Ervedya and Muhaarar won Group 1 races for 3-year-olds at Royal Ascot on Friday, a day in which five American-trained runners failed to finish in the top three in their respective races.