After finishing second in the Japan Cup Dirt in 2012 and 2013, Hokko Tarumae won the renamed $1,665,172 Champions Cup on dirt at Chukyo Racecourse in Nagoya on Sunday.
Imperative, the former claimer who won the $1.5 million Charles Town Classic in West Virginia in April, is the lone foreign runner in Sunday’s $1,665,172 Champions Cup on dirt at Chukyo Racecourse in Nagoya, Japan.
The 2015 Royal Ascot meeting will feature a new Group 1 race for 3-year-olds sprinters, the racecourse announced earlier this week.
The brilliant 3-year-old miler Kingman has been named the Cartier Horse of the Year for 2014, it was announced Tuesday.
Protectionist, a 7-1 shot ridden by Ryan Moore, won Tuesday’s $5,241,600 Melbourne Cup in Australia, part of a winning exacta of European shippers in the field of 22.
Admire Rakti, the winner of the Group 1 Caulfield Cup on Oct. 18, is a lukewarm 4-1 choice to win Tuesday’s $5,241,600 Melbourne Cup against 23 rivals at Flemington Racecourse.
Fawkner, a Group 1 winner on Oct. 11, can solidify his claims for the Melbourne Cup on Nov. 4 in Saturday’s $2,638,500 Cox Plate at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Australia.
Noble Mission ensured that Ascot's flat-season finale had a truly emotional finish as he beat Al Kazeem by a neck in a thrilling edition of the QIPCO Champion Stakes on Saturday.
Charm Spirit completed a wonderful spell for the Head family with a brave victory in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.
Admire Rakti won the biggest race of his career in Saturday’s $2,634,000 Caulfield Cup in Australia and immediately vaulted to the top of future-book lists for the Melbourne Cup on Nov. 4.
