Racing news and tips: Barney Roy a big 2,000 Guineas hope after Greenham romp

April 22, 2017, 8:40 am

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• Newbury win sets up a John Magnier v Sheikh Mohammed head-to-head
• Vicente boosts Paul Nicholls with Scottish Grand National victory

Backers hoping to oppose the hot favourite Churchill in the 2,000 Guineas in two weeks’ time have another option to consider after Barney Roy’s impressive success in the Group Three Greenham Stakes here on Saturday. Richard Hannon’s colt found an impressive turn of foot to beat Dream Castle, who also runs in the royal blue silks of Godolphin, and now sits alongside Eminent, Thursday’s Craven Stakes winner, at around 8-1 for the season’s first Classic.

Godolphin sent two once-raced maiden winners into the last of the recognised Guineas trials and with a furlong to run it was apparent they would fight out the finish. It was Dream Castle, though, that was travelling like a winner and apparently about to cruise into a clear lead.

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Racing news and tips: Blow for Mullins after Fox Norton beats Un De Sceaux

April 25, 2017, 1:22 pm

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• Odds-on favourite for Punchestown’s Champion Chase pipped on run-in
• Setback for Mullins in his attempt to finish top of the Irish trainers standings

Colin Tizzard and Robbie Power rounded off a memorable season by landing Punchestown’s Champion Chase with Fox Norton, who powered past the long-time leader Un De Sceaux after the final fence on Tuesday. The result is a major setback for Willie Mullins in his attempt to claw his way back to the top of the Irish trainers standings before the season ends on Saturday.

Mullins’s Un De Sceaux was sent off as the odds-on favourite to follow up his Ryanair victory at the Cheltenham Festival and he could still be called the most likely winner when edging clear on the run to the home turn.

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Talking Horses: Blue Point's success adds to Churchill reputation

May 4, 2017, 2:43 am

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Plus best bets for Musselburgh and Lingfield as punters sift through five Thursday racecards

When you invite a trainer to offer an excuse for a horse, they generally do so with alacrity. So it was interesting that Charlie Appleby turned down the opportunity at Ascot yesterday after Blue Point got back in the winner’s enclosure for the first time since the Gimcrack.

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Fabre changes tack and aims undefeated Al Wukair at 2,000 Guineas pay-off

May 4, 2017, 1:10 pm

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• Dream Ahead colt can exact revenge for sire’s Dewhurst loss to Frankel
• Twenty-six Grand National jockeys charged with breach of rules

Connections are hoping for a more prominent showing from the French raider Al Wukair when he lines up in the 2,000 Guineas on Saturday as the likely third-favourite. The unbeaten colt gave his rivals plenty of rope before finishing strongly to win the Prix Djebel at Maisons-Laffitte last month, a feat that would be much harder to pull off in a high-quality Guineas, as this one is expected to be.

“When you have André Fabre as your trainer and he’s being as bullish and as positive as he is, it’s very exciting,” said Harry Herbert, racing adviser to the owner, Al Shaqab. But Herbert accepts that Al Wukair’s unbeaten record will be in some peril if he trails Churchill by 10 lengths at halfway, which is how much ground he had to make up on the Djebel leaders in the final half-mile.

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Frankel offspring may add next chapter to story of racing great in Guineas

May 5, 2017, 8:03 am

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If the racing champion could father a Guineas winner at the first attempt it would add yet another chapter to the tale of his achievements

Is it really six years? Frankel’s 2,000 Guineas was a two-minute explosion of unassailable brilliance, and it scorched such an indelible image on the mind that it feels much closer at hand.

Frankel walked on to the long, straight course at Newmarket as a potential champion, and back to the winner’s enclosure with his freakish ability established beyond all doubt. He had shown that even after three centuries of intermingling in thoroughbred bloodlines, it is still possible to shuffle the pack of racehorse genetics and draw an unbeatable hand. And on Saturday afternoon, in the sixth 2,000 Guineas since, it may start to become apparent whether the owners of his sons and daughters are also playing with a loaded deck.

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Churchill likely to have Derby or Ascot target after 2,000 Guineas triumph

May 6, 2017, 9:08 am

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• ‘He can go a lot of roads,’ says trainer Aidan O’Brien
• Barney Roy may be aimed at rematch in St James’s Palace

Two colts from Frankel’s first crop lined up for the 2,000 Guineas here on Saturday but the great champion’s own father, Galileo, showed that, when it comes to siring Classic winners, he is still the daddy. Churchill, last year’s champion two-year-old and the 6-4 favourite, found a clear path to the line against the stands rail to take the Guineas by a length from Barney Roy and establish a clear record for Aidan O’Brien, his trainer, as the most successful trainer in the race’s history.

This was O’Brien’s eighth victory in the 2,000 Guineas, one more than the total recorded by John Scott between 1842 and 1862 and double the career total of his namesake Vincent, his predecessor at Ballydoyle in Co Tipperary. In the end it was a comfortable and well-executed success, as Lancaster Bomber, a stable companion of the winner, set a very steady pace through the early part of the race, which allowed Ryan Moore, on Churchill, to choose his moment to attack along the near side despite having been drawn in one of the wider stalls.

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Stradivarius foils Big Orange hat-trick bid in Goodwood Cup

August 1, 2017, 8:02 am

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• Andrea Atzeni wins four races on opening day of Glorious Goodwood
• Expert Eye looked top-class in turning Vintage Stakes into a procession

Big Orange came up a couple of lengths short here on Tuesday in his attempt to win the Goodwood Cup for the third year running, but time may show that it took a Classic winner with 13lb less in his saddle to frustrate him. Michael Bell’s magnificent six-year-old could not respond as Stradivarius surged past inside the final quarter-mile, and the winner is now a 5-1 chance for next month’s St Leger at Doncaster.

Big Orange saw off all the older horses in the field in his familiar, front-running style. The two three-year-olds in the line-up, though, finished first and third as Stradivarius made the most of the weight concession to take the first running of the Goodwood Cup as a Group One event.

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Expert Eye heads for Dewhurst after being ruled out of National Stakes

September 4, 2017, 4:39 am

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• Two Thousand Guineas favourite suffers minor setback
• Colt will head straight for Newmarket in mid-October

Next year’s 2,000 Guineas favourite Expert Eye has been ruled out of a trip to Ireland this weekend. Sir Michael Stoute had been looking to send the Acclamation colt for Sunday’s Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes at The Curragh.

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Martyn Meade’s Chilean in line for Dante after divine success in Paris

April 8, 2018, 10:45 am

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• Meade says of Classic hope: ‘He won in style of a very good horse’
• Ralph Beckett’s Air Pilot lifts Prix d’Harcourt at ParisLongchamp

Chilean, who finished sixth behind the 2,000 Guineas favourite Saxon Warrior in last season’s Racing Post Trophy, will head to the Dante Stakes at York next month after starting his campaign as a three-year-old with victory in the Group Three Prix La Force at a rebuilt – and renamed – ParisLongchamp racecourse on Sunday.

His comfortable one-and-a-quarter length success under Oisin Murphy paid a compliment to Saxon Warrior, but also suggested that Martyn Meade’s colt had improved further over the winter after progressing from a maiden to his first Group One start in less than three months as a juvenile.

Kempton

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Redemption for Adam Wedge at Ayr as he wins Scottish National on Joe Farrell

April 21, 2018, 9:42 am

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• Rebecca Curtis finishes season on a high with 33-1 big-race win
• Frankie Dettori shines on James Garfield in Greenham at Newbury

Two jockeys who started the year on a low note ended the season in style by providing an electrifying finish to the Scottish Grand National at Ayr, in which the Adam Wedge-ridden Joe Farrell prevailed by a rapidly diminishing nose from Ballyoptic and Tom Bellamy. The 33-1 winner provided an important boost to his trainer, Rebecca Curtis, who is on the way towards rebuilding her stable after a difficult couple of years.

Lavishing praise on his mount in the moments immediately after the photo finish result was announced, Wedge said: “He stuck his head out like an absolute lion for me. I could feel Bellsy getting to me all the way and he’s absolutely tried his heart out.”

Stratford 2.00 Monsieur Co 2.35 Phoebus Lescribaa 3.10 Fizzlestix 3.40 Hijran 4.10 Royal Magic 4.45 Corner Creek 5.15 Abricot De L’Oasis

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Aidan O’Brien team steps up a gear as Order Of St George returns in style

April 22, 2018, 10:42 am

≫ Next: Frankie Dettori talks up James Garfield for 2,000 Guineas after Parole blow

≪ Previous: Redemption for Adam Wedge at Ayr as he wins Scottish National on Joe Farrell

• Ryan Moore enjoys armchair ride on 2016 Gold Cup hero
• So Perfect wins on debut and is named as Royal Ascot possible

Godolphin carried all before them at Newmarket last week, taking the chief Classic trials, but at Navan on Sunday Aidan O’Brien fired a couple of serious warning shots to let everyone know his team are ready to step up a gear after Order Of St George and So Perfect enjoyed notable victories.

The 2016 Ascot Gold Cup winner was given a hands-and-heels ride by Ryan Moore to beat Lord Yeats by five and a half lengths and land the Group Three Vintage Crop Stakes 12 months after he suffered a shock defeat in the corresponding race.

Newton Abbot1.30 Goldslinger 2.00 Sensulano 2.30 Marracudja 3.00 Sao 3.30 Sparky’s Spirit 4.00 Champagne George 4.30 Virak

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Frankie Dettori talks up James Garfield for 2,000 Guineas after Parole blow

May 1, 2018, 10:48 am

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• Dettori will ride James Garfield after Without Parole ruled out
• Unbeaten son of Frankel was found to have a bruised foot

Frankie Dettori is optimistic that James Garfield can outrun odds of 25-1 in Saturday’s 2,000 Guineas after his other potential ride was ruled out of the Classic.

The Italian would have been aboard Without Parole if that one had lined up in the Newmarket race but the colt was found to have a bruised foot. Dettori presumably feels a bit deflated about that bad news, as Without Parole is an exciting, unbeaten son of Frankel and impressed clock-watchers with the speed of his success at Yarmouth last week. While he has been running in a lower grade than James Garfield, the betting market thought he had a better chance and he was no bigger than 14-1 on Tuesday morning.

Wolverhampton 1.50 Malaysian Boleh 2.25 Sea Youmzain 3.00 Costa Percy 3.35 Geetanjali 4.10 Valcartier 4.45 Desert Diamond 5.20 Homeopathic 5.55 Shamonix

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Talking Horses: Gustav Klimt can bag Guineas for master trainer O’Brien

May 4, 2018, 4:01 pm

≫ Next: Saxon Warrior takes 2,000 Guineas for Aidan O’Brien

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The selection has the class and turn of foot to give Aidan O’Brien his ninth 2,000 Guineas winner at Newmarket

The abrupt emergence of Masar as a potential Classic winner gives the 2,000 Guineas today at Newmarket a familiar Godolphin versus Ballydoyle look, but one of the more open renewals of recent years has several more genuine contenders in the field. Expert Eye and Elarqam have serious claims on the pick of their juvenile form, while James Garfield beat Expert Eye in the Greenham and will have his backers with Frankie Dettori taking the reins. There is also market confidence behind Mark Johnston’s Elarqam, which has not been the case for Saxon Warrior, one of Aidan O’Brien’s two main contenders.

Doncaster 5.15 Equitation (nb) 5.50 Broken Spear 6.20 Night Castle 6.50 Roller 7.20 Roussel 7.50 Bedrock 8.20 Rayna’s World

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Saxon Warrior takes 2,000 Guineas for Aidan O’Brien

May 5, 2018, 7:56 am

≫ Next: Roger Teal wants Tip Two Win to wipe smirk off ITV Racing presenter’s face

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• Victory is ninth 2,000 Guineas win for Aidan O’Brien
• O’Brien’s son Donnacha pilots winner for trainer

Saxon Warrior was an authoritative and exciting winner of the 2,000 Guineas here, raising the possibility of his connections landing the Triple Crown they were cruelly denied with Camelot six years ago. Aidan O’Brien clearly has another hugely talented horse in his stable, though it is much more newsworthy that there is a horse of comparable quality in the Berkshire yard of Roger Teal, whose Tip Two Win put in a mighty effort to be second at 50-1.

O’Brien, whose extraordinary tally of Group One wins has now reached 300, was away in the United States, preparing Mendelssohn for Saturday night’s Kentucky Derby. This victory will have meant much more to him than most of the others, as it provided a first Classic success for his youngest son, Donnacha, the winning jockey.

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Roger Teal wants Tip Two Win to wipe smirk off ITV Racing presenter’s face

June 5, 2018, 9:07 am

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• Guineas runner-up display at 50-1 was no fluke, says trainer
• Matt Chapman said colt’s display may have been ‘flash in pan’

Roger Teal’s tilt at Royal Ascot has taken on a personal aspect after the ability of his star horse, Tip Two Win, was doubted on television by Matt Chapman, a presenter on At The Races and ITV. “I saw Matt Chapman’s face the other day and I’d just like to take the smirk off it, to be honest,” Teal said on Tuesday, while clearly retaining his sense of humour about their difference of opinion.

Tip Two Win ran a huge race to be second in the 2,000 Guineas at odds of 50-1 last month, when the £107,000 prize money provided Teal with his biggest payday in 11 years as a trainer. Now he hopes the grey can go one place better in the St James’s Palace Stakes in a fortnight’s time.

Uttoxeter 1.40 Simafar 2.10 Edward Elgar 2.40 Amirr 3.10 Too Much Too Soon 3.40 Stradivarius Davis 4.10 Salix 4.40 Goodnight Charlie 5.10 Onelasthand
Wolverhampton 1.50 Absolutely Awesome 2.20 Burj 2.50 Mad Endeavour 3.20 Viewpoint 3.50 Natalie Express 4.20 Mischief Managed 4.50 Pride's Gold 5.20 Azpeitia
Hamilton 2.00 Princes Des Sables 2.30 Rotherhithe 3.00 Kings Gold 3.30 Kimberella 4.00 Zabeel Star (nap) 4.30 Start Time 5.00 Only Spoofing
Kempton 6.00 Beyond Reason 6.30 Chica De La Noche 7.00 Red Mist 7.30 Tight Lines (nb) 8.00 Argus 8.30 The Way You Dance 9.00 Dance Teacher
Wetherby 6.10 Cococabala 6.40 Hasanoanda 7.10 Scottish Summit 7.40 Radjash 8.10 Our Kylie 8.40 Slipper Satin 9.10 Straight Ash

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Frankie Dettori and Too Darn Hot scorch home to lift Derby temperature

September 1, 2018, 11:03 am

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• John Gosden colt impresses in Solario Stakes at Sandown
• Owned by Lord Lloyd Webber, Too Darn Hot cut for Epsom

A star was born in the colours of Lord Lloyd Webber here on Saturday as Too Darn Hot lived up to all expectations with a four-length defeat of a Royal Ascot winner in the Group Three Solario Stakes. A move up to Group One company now seems inevitable for John Gosden’s colt, a son of his brilliant filly Dar Re Mi and he is the new favourite for the 2,000 Guineas and the Derby next season.

Too Darn Hot came into the race with the lowest official rating among the six runners, as his seven-length win in a Sandown maiden did not match up to the achievements of opponents who had already run well in Group company. He emerged as a potential champion juvenile, having displayed the class and acceleration of a Group One horse while also leaving the impression there will be better yet to come as he adds experience to the mix.

Brighton

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Ten Sovereigns wins Middle Park to crown brilliant Aidan O’Brien treble

September 29, 2018, 9:31 am

≫ Next: Too Darn Hot and Frankie Dettori strengthen 2,000 Guineas claims

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• Ten Sovereigns puts speed on display in Newmarket win
• Donnacha O’Brien admits to concerns over his riding future

Donnacha O’Brien may be living on borrowed time as a jockey and he rides as though he knows it. He seized every opportunity here on Saturday to complete a Group-race treble in little more than an hour, a run that included the card’s two Group One events. Few 20-year-old jockeys have achieved such a feat and fewer still have then conceded that they may not be riding at 21.

Ten Sovereigns, who maintained his unbeaten record in the Middle Park Stakes, was the highlight of O’Brien’s afternoon, following victories on Fairyland in the Cheveley Park Stakes and Mohawk, who led home a 1-2-3 for his father, Aidan, in the Royal Lodge Stakes. All three mounts were available because Ryan Moore, Aidan O’Brien’s stable jockey, had opted to cross the Atlantic to ride at Belmont Park in New York on Saturday evening and all three received polished, no-nonsense rides from a very able deputy.

Epsom

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Too Darn Hot and Frankie Dettori strengthen 2,000 Guineas claims

October 13, 2018, 10:12 am

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• John Gosden colt impressive in Newmarket’s Dewhurst Stakes
• Dettori: ‘I’ve been trying for 30 years and now I’ve put it to bed’

Too Darn Hot concluded a flawless juvenile campaign in suitably compelling style here on Saturday, finishing almost three lengths in front of a strong field for the Dewhurst Stakes and with Frankie Dettori able to raise his whip in celebration 100 yards from the line. John Gosden’s colt is now a 6-4 chance to win the 2,000 Guineas over an extra furlong next spring and if there is a horse to beat him in the Classic on 4 May, the betting suggests it will not be one of the five that finished behind him here.

This was seen beforehand as one of the strongest renewals of the Dewhurst for some years, with two runners with solid Group One form – Advertise and Anthony Van Dyck – in the field alongside Too Darn Hot and Sangarius, unbeaten in three and two races respectively.

Goodwood

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2,000 Guineas: Decision expected on Too Darn Hot run early next week

April 16, 2019, 8:42 am

≫ Next: Too Darn Hot ruled out of 2,000 Guineas to leave Ten Sovereigns favourite

≪ Previous: Too Darn Hot and Frankie Dettori strengthen 2,000 Guineas claims

• Gosden does not want to delay decision on Classic favourite
• Qabala new favourite for 1,000 Guineas after Nell Gwyn win

Ante-post backers with bets on Too Darn Hot for next month’s 2,000 Guineas can expect to find out early next week if they will get a run for their money after John Gosden, the colt’s trainer, said here on Tuesday that there is no reason to leave the decision until closer to the race.

Too Darn Hot has been the Guineas favourite since completing an unbeaten juvenile campaign with a comfortable success in the Group One Dewhurst Stakes last October, but missed last Saturday’s Greenham Stakes at Newbury after being found to have heat in a splint bone.

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Too Darn Hot ruled out of 2,000 Guineas to leave Ten Sovereigns favourite

April 20, 2019, 9:41 am

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• Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber’s colt out of Newmarket classic
• André Fabre’s Persian King has shortened to 5-1

Too Darn Hot, the hot favourite for next month’s 2,000 Guineas since a brilliant win at Doncaster last September, has been ruled out of the Classic on 5 May after John Gosden, his trainer, decided that he had run out of time to get his colt ready following an injury to a splint bone 10 days ago.

Huntingdon1.40 Blackfyre 2.15 Kilmoganny 2.50 Arch My Boy 3.25 Graceland 4.00 Junction Fourteen 4.35 Third Estate 5.10 Mister Coffey
Fakenham1.45 Zoffany Bay 2.20 Cyrus Moriviere 2.55 Glimpse Of Gold 3.30 Minella On Line 4.05 Acertain Circus 4.40 Italian Summer 5.15 Sir Jack Yeats
Plumpton1.50 Zanzi Win 2.25 Tennewrow 3.00 Not Another Muddle 3.35 Harbour Force 4.10 Brother Bennett 4.45 Pray For A Rainbow 5.20 King Cnut
Redcar1.55 Power Player 2.30 Eldelbar 3.05 Hortzadar 3.40 Saluti (nap) 4.15 Spiritual Boy 4.50 Blazing Dreams 5.25 The Resdev Way (nb) 6.00 Tomahawk Ridge
Chepstow 2.00 Silk Run 2.35 General Bux 3.10 Influential Lady 3.45 Magic Saint 4.20 Friend Or Foe 4.55 The Dellercheckout 5.30 Southfield Harvest
Wolverhampton2.10 Topology 2.45 Sunset Flash 3.20 Gleeful 3.55 Our Man In Havana 4.30 Captain Ryan 5.05 Power Home 5.35 Setting Sail

Plumpton 1.55 The Flying Sofa 2.25 Belmont Park 2.55 Sadma 3.25 Mister Universum 3.55 Magic River 4.30 He’s A Goer 5.05 Age Of Wisdom

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