Newmarket: Mayson upsets July Cup over heavy turf
Mayson, a 20-1 outsider, took advantage of a rain-soaked course to win his first Group 1 race in Saturday’s July Cup at Newmarket, England.
Steve AndersenJul 14, 2012
Mayson, a 20-1 outsider, took advantage of a rain-soaked course to win his first Group 1 race in Saturday’s July Cup at Newmarket, England.
The French filly Giofra scored a 10-1 upset in Friday’s Group 1 Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket, England, recording her second major stakes win of the year.
Red Cadeaux, the winner of the Group 2 Yorkshire Cup in May, will be favored to win his fourth stakes in Thursday’s Group 2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes at Newmarket, the first day of the three-day July meeting.
A Deep Impact colt out of Frizette winner Sky Diva sold for just over $3 million Tuesday to top the Japan Racing Horse Association’s select foal sale at Northern Park in Hokkaido.
A $3.1 million Deep Impact colt shone brightest Monday at the Japan Racing Horse Association’s July yearling sale in Hokkaido, Japan, where figures increased across the board.
Nathaniel made a triumphant return to the races Saturday at Sandown, holding off Farhh to capture the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes in his first start since last Oct. 15.
So You Think was to have started heavily favored Saturday in the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park in England, but he was reported lame Thursday, and word of his impending absence from the Eclipse soon gave way to a report of So You Think’s retirement. So You Think will immediately go into quarantine and soon be shipped to Australia to stand the 2012 breeding season there, announced his connections, trainer Aidan O’Brien and an ownership group headed by the Coolmore operation.
The 4-year-old Izzi Top qualified for the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf by winning the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes on Sunday at the Curragh in Ireland.
Camelot won for the fifth time without a defeat and survived his first trip over a heavy, laboring course, with his win Saturday evening in the Irish Derby at the Curragh giving trainer Aidan O’Brien his seventh straight victory in that Group 1 race.
Led by English Oaks winner Was, trainer Aidan O’Brien has a formidable trio of 3-year-old fillies by Galileo in Sunday’s Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh in Ireland.