Irish Derby winner Cape Blanco added to his Group 1 résumé with a unchallenged and emphatic victory in Saturday’s Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.
Paco Boy faces a challenge from 3-year-olds in the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp.
Rip Van Winkle is stable jockey Johnny Murtagh’s choice of three Aidan O’Brien-trained mounts in Saturday’s Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown. The winner of the Juddmonte International at York last month, Rip Van Winkle is expected to be the odds-on favorite for the 10-furlong test.
Six Group 1 winners, including four trained by Aidan O'Brien, are among six Group 1 winners among the nominees for Saturday's Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.
William Hill rates defending champ Zenyatta and Preakness and Haskell winner Lookin At Lucky as 4-1 co-favorites for the Breeders’ Cup Classic as the British bookmakers opened for Cup business on Tuesday.
German Horse of the Year and leading sire Lomitas has died at age 22.
Overdose’s unbeaten record came to a crashing end at Baden-Baden on Sunday as the Budapest Bullet weakened to finish seventh as the 3-5 favorite behind the 7.80-1 Amico Fritz in the Group 2, $89,000 Godene Peitshce, Germany’s championship sprint race.
Misty for Me handed even-money favorite Memory a resounding defeat in the Group 1, $300,000 Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday as she led throughout to take the seven-furlong race by a length from Laughing Lashes.
Memory is the odds-on favorite for Sunday’s Group 1, $300,000 Moyglare Stud Stakes, the key Curragh test for juvenile fillies in Ireland, as she steps up to seven furlongs for the first time in an attempt to win for the fourth time without defeat.
The saga of Overdose continues at Baden-Baden on Sunday when the undefeated Hungarian sprinter will be tested in Germany’s premier dash, the Group 2, $89,000 Goldene Peitsche at six furlongs.
