Sandown: Dick Turpin and Music Show starting year
Two Group 1-winning milers, Dick Turpin and Music Show, are set to make their 4-year-old debut in the Group 2 Sandown Mile on Saturday.
Marcus HershApr 21, 2011
Two Group 1-winning milers, Dick Turpin and Music Show, are set to make their 4-year-old debut in the Group 2 Sandown Mile on Saturday.
A record 10 American-based runners have been nominated to the Group 1 races at Royal Ascot from June 14-18, and some of the runners will have prep races as soon as Saturday.
The two-time stakes winner Sadamu Patek is expected to be favored in Sunday’s Group 1 Japanese 2000 Guineas, the Satsuki Sho.
Wootton Bassett, unraced since winning the Group 1 Prix Jean Luc-Lagardere in France last fall, will not start in the English 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on April 30 after trainer Richard Fahey said on Tuesday that the colt was too far behind in his training.
There very well could be a European representative in this year's Kentucky Derby. Master of Hounds is being strongly considered for the race, according Monday to an Irish-based spokesman for Coolmore Stud's John Magnier, who owns Master of Hounds. Master of Hounds, a son of Kingmambo, is trained by Aidan O'Brien and was second in the UAE Derby in his lone start this year.
Frankel, the joint champion 2-year-old male in Europe last year, stretched his unbeaten streak to five in Saturday’s Group 3 Greenham Stakes at Newbury Racecourse in England, confirming his status as a heavy favorite for the English 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on April 30.
Frankel, considered one of the finest 2-year-olds to race in England in recent years and the favorite for the 2000 Guineas on April 30, will make his 3-year-old debut as a prohibitive favorite in Saturday’s Group 3 Greenham Stakes at Newbury, England.
Barefoot Lady, a 14-1 outsider making her first start of 2011, caught 9-4 favorite Sing Softly in the final strides to win Wednesday’s Group 3 Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket, a prep race for the English 1000 Guineas on the same course on May 1.
Black Caviar, the top-rated horse in the world according to the World Thoroughbred Rankings, earned an automatic berth in the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint by virtue of her 2 3/4-length win Saturday in the Group 1 Darley T.J. Smith Stakes at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Australia.
Ballabriggs, racing near the front of a race that began with 40 horses and concluded, as usual, with far fewer, scored a 2 1/4-length victory Saturday in the $1,482,000 John Smith’s Grand National Chase at Aintree Racecourse in England.