Jockey Christophe Soumillon knew exactly what he had underneath him in the filly Precise. Riding patiently from the back of a 10-runner field, Soumillon subtly brought Precise into contention with less than three furlongs remaining in the Group 1 Fillies' Mile on Friday at Newmarket, and when Soumillon asked, Precise went off with a bang. Drawing quickly clear, Precise won the straight-course mile at Newmarket by 3 1/4 lengths over longshot Venetian Lace.
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Saturday’s action at Newmarket is exciting, with some of the best two-year-olds taking each other on and a historic handicap in the shape of the Cesarewitch.
Race 1 | G3 Darley Stakes
Kicking off with the Darley Stakes, where Karl Burke’s Liberty Lane sets a good standard.
He won the Cambridgeshire here last year and is a winner at Listed level, and I think he should be up to winning in this grade too.
He’s possibly not open to further improvement, as we know where he is, but he is the most solid and goes well over this course and distance.
Thu, 10/09/2025 - 11:11
By Leo Schlink
Derek Leung soared into elite company during a meeting of milestones at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (8 October) by becoming only the fourth homegrown Hong Kong, China jockey to reach the 500-win landmark.
Leung, 37, joined Tony Cruz (946), Vincent Ho (612) and Matthew Chadwick (569) as the city’s only homegrown riders to post 500 or more wins when Frankie Lor’s Regal Gem (128lb) triumphed by a short head over Never Too Soon (121lb).
Two weeks after a commanding win in a Group 3 at seven furlongs at Newmarket Racecourse in England, the promising 2-year-old colt Distant Storm returns to the same course for a more prestigious race in Saturday’s Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes.
Distant Storm, trained by Charlie Appleby for Godolphin, was the 6-5 favorite in the Group 3 Tattersalls Stakes on Sept. 25, winning by 4 3/4 lengths from off the pace.
The 2-year-old filly Precise, favored in the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile on Friday at Newmarket, is already a Group 1 winner. Fellow 2-year-old filly Legacy Link has atop her résumé a win in a minor Haydock Park contest from two career starts. But that Haydock performance stamped her as potential Group 1 material, and Legacy Link can take down Precise and nine others in the Fillies’ Mile.
Paul Lally:
R1 2-9-3-8
R2 6-5-2-1
R3 7-2-5-4
R4 10-4-8-1
R5 1-5-7-4
R6 5-1-6-3
R7 2-8-3-9
R8 7-11-8-12
R9 2-6-5-4
Best Bet R7 N2 Denfield
Longshot R3 N7 Know At Heart
Play R9 QQP 2-5-6
Mark McNamara:
R1: 4.1.2.3
R2: 1.6.2.9
R3: 5.2.1.7
R4: 8.4.1.10
R5: 1.8.3.7
R6: 6.3.1.8
R7: 5.2.1.6
R8: 7.5.4.2
R9: 5.2.7.3
Best Bet: R8 N7 Regal Gem
By Paul Ryding
Two of the early pace-setters in the 2025/26 trainers’ championship will send strong contingents to Happy Valley on Wednesday night (8 October), looking to open up a gap at the top of the standings.
Caspar Fownes prepares six runners, hoping to improve on his seven wins so far this season at his favourite hunting ground.
Mark Newnham has made an explosive start to his third campaign in Hong Kong, and he saddles seven runners.
Sun, 10/05/2025 - 16:44
Barnavara, a winner of three stakes in Ireland earlier this year, won her Group 1 debut in Sunday’s $587,000 Prix de l’Opera for fillies and mares at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris in an 8-1 upset.
The Prix de l’Opera was one of five Group 1 races on the undercard of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe program that offered the winners automatic berths to Breeders’ Cup races at Del Mar on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.
There was uncertainty in the immediate aftermath of the Prix de l’Opera whether Barnavara would be sent to California for the BC Filly and Mare Turf on Nov. 1.