Steeplechase rider A.P. McCoy calling it a career
The record-breaking career of steeplechase jockey A.P. McCoy will come to an end at Sandown Park outside of London on Saturday.
Steve AndersenApr 23, 2015
The record-breaking career of steeplechase jockey A.P. McCoy will come to an end at Sandown Park outside of London on Saturday.
Duramente won the first stakes of his career in Sunday’s $1,700,824 Japanese 2000 Guineas at Nakayama Racecourse, giving international jockey Mirco Demuro his first Grade 1 win in Japan since he began riding regularly in the country last month.
The unbeaten stakes winners Kitasan Black and Satono Crown, and the 2014 champion 2-year-old colt Danon Platina, are among 15 colts in Sunday’s $1,700,824 Japanese 2000 Guineas at Nakayama Racecourse.
California Chrome is on schedule for a European debut in the $522,550 Lockinge Stakes at Newbury Racecourse in England on May 16, trainer Art Sherman said Thursday.
The prep-race season for 2015 classic races in the U.S. is over, but overseas, it is in full swing. At Newmarket in England on Wednesday, there were two such races, following a race in France on Tuesday and one last Sunday in Ireland, with more preps to come Thursday and Saturday this week.
Let’s Go Donki led throughout Sunday’s $1,533,842 Japanese 1000 Guineas for 3-year-old fillies at Hanshin Racecourse, the first leg of the year-long Japanese Triple Crown.
Many Clouds, the 163-pound second highweight, gave jockey Leighton Aspell his second consecutive win in the $1,469,200 Grand National steeplechase at 4 7/16ths miles at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England on Saturday.
Three fillies – Cat Coin, Queens Ring, and Rouge Buck – risk unbeaten records in Sunday’s $1,533,842 Japanese 1000 Guineas for 3-year-old fillies at Hanshin Racecourse. Prerace expectations suggest that one of them will remain unbeaten after the Grade 1 race at about a mile on a right-handed turf course.
Adelaide, the winner of the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes at Arlington Park last summer and the Group 1 Cox Plate in Australia last October, is among 13 runners in Saturday’s $3,076,000 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Australia.
All winter, Shutthefrontdoor was kept out of action in steeplechase races in England by design.