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A mare who jumped round Aintree to place in a Grand National lost her life whilst having her first foal. There is an irony in that methinks. The antis say racing is cruel. Mother Nature is evidently crueler… Farewell Magic of Light. You were one of the special ones. RIP.
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Bryony will dominate the headlines but Ruth Jefferson’s must surely be the most remarkable female performance of the King George? To bring Waiting Patiently back from a year’s layoff & go so close. Round of applause please ...
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I am fed up of people criticising low grade racing, using class six as an insult & sneering at poor horses. We’re a breeding nation. Selling platers are a bi product of Derby winners. We have to provide opportunities for all. And a bit of respect wouldn’t go amiss either…
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Honeysuckle is the new Winx, isn’t she? An utterly dominant mare who pisses off vast swathes of people who don’t understand how difficult it is to keep a mature mare sweet & interested in racing. Ah well …
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Rather than applaud Ryan Moore for giving his Golden Slipper winners’ watch to Shinzo’s groom, why not ask Longines why they didn’t give a watch to the winning groom in the first place? Or cost price cash equivalent? If these cogs in the wheel are as important as we say they are.
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A plea to
@itvracing
Please mention breeders & breeding at Cheltenham this week. The studs, stud staff & pre trainers are every bit as much unsung heroes as the grooms you frequently & rightly applaud. Their formative work has made these horses as great as they are!
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Jumps racing has become so tribal that you say things like “I love Bravemansgame” & you get snarked at. Okay, he’s not as good as Ireland’s best or a Cheltenham kind of horse. But he’s a fabulous athlete & tries so hard. You’d be ever so proud to watch him jump & say “he’s mine!”
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Equinox is like Sea The Stars, lucky to have been beaten early in his career. With Frankel & Flightline, the narrative was all about them remaining unbeaten & look what happened to Baaeed! It’s more fun watching a horse run to enhance its legacy rather than keep it blemish free.
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Colic is something all horse owners fear. Up & down the country, tiny ponies, elegant thoroughbreds & robust cobs will be diagnosed today. A shot of muscle relaxant will sort some, others might need surgery like Altior but for many there is no cure. Keep them all in your prayers.
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If ITV racing can Zoom with owners after a race, why not with breeders & studs? It would be great to see Dark Angel were he to get another winner this week - even in his paddock covered with mud! Why not connect viewers with the origins of winning horses & bring bloodstock alive?
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He’s not a rocket. He’s not a machine. He’s not a monster. He’s not a weapon. He’s not a freak. He’s a horse, a phenomenally talented one who we’re lucky to have so please grant him some respect in your choice of words …
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My favourite thought on Derby morning is that five future Epsom victors exist - one on a lorry to the races, one in a stable tacked up for work, one grazing with colt chums in a field, one geting up to foal high jinx & one a blob with a beating heart on a vet’s ultrasound screen.
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Why don’t jumps fans care about racing in France? Four grade ones at Auteuil this weekend but barely a comment on here. If it had been four group ones at Longchamp, flat fans would have been all over them. It’s so odd given how important French horses now are to the sport here…
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It’s sad to see people belittling Donjuan Triumphant. He’s a 6 year old entire who has been on the go since the June of his 2yo year. He’s won 17%, & been placed in 39%, of his races. That demonstrates toughness of body & mind. Moreover, he’s a Godolphin Arabian so a rare breed!
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OMG?! Where to start - the long fluffy ears, the huge white face, the cute pink lip, the unusual splotch on the knee?! It’s almost immaterial that the sire is Noble Mission …
昨夜の宿直は華麗にスルーされ
本日18時に4頭目のお産がありました～
スカーゲンの22（♂ノーブルミッション）です
顔もなかなか個性的ですが
それ以上に膝の模様が珍しいですね♪
なんとお母さんのお腹に12ヵ月と3日もいました
のんびり屋さんなのかな
競馬ではのんびりしないで欲しいですね笑
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Yesterday I said goodbye to my constant companion of eleven years. His rapid decline has bemused vets & upset me greatly. From a happy active dog to a miserable incapacitated one in a matter of weeks. Whilst his death comes as a relief, his absence is agony. Beloved Buster, RIP.
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The Oliver Townend controversy at Badminton has got me thinking. If event riders can be forced to pull up exhausted horses in cross country, should jump jockeys be the same? We’ve all watched tired falls & thought “he should have pulled it up.” Time for proactive stewarding?
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How can anyone not love Al Boum Photo? It’s not his fault that connections campaign him as they do... Picture courtesy of
@TramoreRaces
and their excellent photographer. They’ve captured the essence of an equine hero. If only racing twitter could see it too ...
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The lovely picture of Alpinista & her travelling companion Pilgrim Dancer reminded me of this in Robin Oakley’s biography of Clive Brittain - the wonderful Pebbles with her “boyfriend” Come On The Blues. Can anyone think of other similarly close & important equine friendships?
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Lots of chat about Japan’s breeding programme. But little discussion as to how differently they nurture horses. Youngsters turned out in the Hokkaido snow. The best sold whilst foals at foot. Trainers’ strings limited in size. Horses kept at regulated training centres. What else?
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He’s 29 years old. It’s 27 years since that scintillating 2yo campaign in France and the States that culminated in his 5l
@BreedersCup
Juvenile triumph. I’ve got a lump in my throat, have you? Legend ...
Arazi feeling super fresh after his visit from the chiropractor.
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Robust enough to win an Oaks by 16 lengths but broken by a slip in the stable. It’s that blurred line between strength & fragility that keeps us enthralled by the thoroughbred. Nobody ever really knows for sure… She was eponymously named, so beautiful yet sadly short lived. RIP.
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Just Wind In Her Hair, a couple of weeks short of her 32nd birthday…
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Pikaboo’s story is pure Hollywood. She retired a maiden with a highest OR of 55. Her first covers were bargain basement but she still threw Cheveley Park heroine Lucky Kristale. Since handsome prince Galileo came calling, stakes winners have flowed. And now there is Love. Wow!
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We build up horses, call them machines & aeroplanes when they’re winning but what happens when they prove their equine failings & get beaten, fall or refuse to race? They’re not soft, dogs or “Shitkin” just flesh & blood who’ve got sore, tired or fed up. FFS, cut them some slack!
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There’s nothing like a Classic winner trained by a proper trainer for an old school owner breeder. No goon is going to accuse them of doping. There’s no risk of the filly being sold to Oz at some boutique sale. Today’s Oaks result was a victory for racing. Hip hip …
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Justify wins the triple crown & what a surprise, the narrative is all about Scat Daddy?! Stage Magic provided half of the genes & did all of the work. She deserves most of the credit as far as I’m concerned. You know, it really is time that this industry started to
#giveadam
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Wind In Her Hair still has spring in her step. She’s 30 now. Yes, 30! Some mare ...
ウインドお母さんは今日も元気！
放牧地の仲間たちは、"やれやれ…"といった感じでしょうか。
#ウインドインハーヘア
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Thanks Torquator Tasso. You did us a huge service, putting German racing under the spotlight & making a household name of your fabulous father Adlerflug. Nobody crabs German G1s anymore & everyone respects the bloodlines. Happy retirement & here’s to siring an Arc winner one day!
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Racing Twitter is an odd place. You’d think it’d love Glass Slippers, a British bred & owned filly who has improved all year to win a G1. Moreover, she’s a bit of an underdog - Yorkshire trained & unfashionably bred. Maybe it’s just Enable anticlimax? Go on, give her some love...
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I dislike the pre Royal Ascot sale immensely. Horses are not luxury goods that can be bought & sold on a champagne fuelled whim. Ownership brings responsibilities or it should. The whole premise of tonight’s event gives a wrong impression. It’s just grim …
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We decided not to push Petula as a juvenile. Covid seemed an opportunity to give her time to grow & strengthen. We dropped her off
@jardineracing
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What’s that sound? It’s the glass ceiling shattering the world over. Jamie Kah won a G1 for Godolphin in Oz overnight. And now Racheal Blackmore has won the Grand National. Regardless of code & jurisdiction, women jockeys are now the best of the best. Happy HAPPY *HAPPY* days...
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An ex jump jockey rides the son of a mare who went jumping to win a marquee Group One on the flat. What a turn of events?! Well done Pyledriver, that was fabulous …
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Has anyone said hats off to
@Tweenhills
for their incredible FSS double? Zoustar & Roaring Lion, both with G1 winners in their first (NH) crop. Yes the former is a proven sire in Oz & the latter no longer with us. But surely credit is still due? Well done & we’re crying with you!
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Come on everybody. Caravaggio didn’t foal Tenebrism himself. He had the help of a multiple group one winning mare who cost connections over 4.7m guineas at the sales. A whole clutch of FSSs could have got off the mark today if they’d been afforded such a luxury. Perspective...
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We’ve lost the Rock. RIP old chap. You were a fabulous racehorse, perhaps a little less illustrious as a sire but an immovable object at Coolmore & there haven’t been many of those! Run free …
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Trying to imagine what it’d be like to drive horses home late on Sunday night, knowing you’ve got to unload & negotiate a frosty yard before dealing with a niggly injury or unhappy horse. You’ve not won a race so no bonus & you’ve got to be up again at 6am to ride out. Fancy it?!
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Book One is going to be a struggle this week, the silly money being spent & the claptrap about “Kings & Queens.” Yesterday’s Arc winner cost just €24k as a yearling & is by a stallion who stood for €5.5k at conception. He made a fool out of bloodstock fashion & its followers...
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Spoiler alert… The very best future racehorses aren’t at Park Paddocks. They’re probably still munching lush grass in their owner-breeders’ extensive pasture. Book One is a side show. It’s captivating, enthralling & mind boggling. But a price tag means nothing on the track…
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Royal Ascot victories can be life changing so let’s hope for some really worthy winners - small studs, young trainers, up and coming jockeys and unheralded stallions! Oh and please racing media, don’t forget that horses have a dam as well as a sire! Now let the games commence ...
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And Orfevre just being Orfevre …
③オルフェーヴル動画(音声ミュート)本人の名誉のために言っておきますが、ずっと立ち上がってた訳ではありませんよ😅
※一般見学非公開
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Lots of tweets in appreciation of stable staff working in freezing conditions. But let’s not forget stud staff, many of them looking after very pregnant broodmares, & the pre training yards still educating yearlings. It’s a busy time of year & the weather makes it so much harder!
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This handsome chap is Albert Dock, a son of Deep Impact who won two G3s in Japan. His dam, Golden Doc A, was a G1 winner in the States. He stands in Italy for €3k & has two tiny crops of racing age. Tempesti, his best son, won a G2 at San Siro today. What a heartwarming result?!
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It was far from a dream debut. Bad ground, a bit of stage fright & perhaps bumper horses are just a bit quick. But he looked sensational & behaved impeccably & I’m just so proud of the man my boy has become …
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The first four home in the KG were all 5yos. What an advert for keeping horses in training & allowing them to strengthen & improve over time? People are crabbing Anthony Van Dyck & presuming he’ll go to stud now. Maybe he just needs the patience his vanquishers were afforded?
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Anyone else finding footage of a day old foal with its dam at an American breeding stock sale deeply upsetting? It’s surely traumatic for them both and poses huge risks to its health. Could the same thing ever happen in Europe? I do hope not ...
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There was something rather “child star” about Arazi, a horse who lived his entire adult life in the shadow of his juvenile brilliance. But oh how brilliant he was?! Farewell to the fastest of flashy chestnuts. But rest assured, your name will raise goosebumps forevermore. RIP.
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Bon Voyage Highland Reel, not that you mind packing your bags & taking long haul flights if you’re racing career was anything to go by! You never strutted your stuff on track in Japan but now you’re off to stud there. Best of luck & we look forward to seeing updates on here!
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So which Guineas winner was your favourite, the home bred blue blood from the established set up or the rags to riches story trained by the new boy in town? They might have had the same jockey & dam sire but the similarities end there. And that’s what makes our sport so great …
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It’s his temperament that gets me. He’s the best racehorse in the world but looks safe enough for a youngster to go out hacking on. If he wasn’t destined for stud, I’m sure he’d be easy to retrain & then excel in any other equestrian discipline. Just a truly special horse …
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Why do some people not want Baaeed to be good? He’s by Sea The Stars, a super sire who’s lacked a star miler to date. He’s owned by Shadwell, who have just lost their guiding light Sheikh Hamdan. He’s trained by Mr Haggas, one of the nicest men in racing. Hype? Hope more like...
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It’s been a tough year personally but this lot have kept me going & I can’t thank “Racing Twitter” enough for its camaraderie as well. Thank-you for every vote, like, retweet & reply & especially all the caring DMs when I went uncharacteristically quiet… Merry Christmas to all!
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So Eydon is running at Epsom? Wow! The dreamiest Derby dream is still alive, a win for the homebred son of an elderly private stallion & the return to centre stage of Mill Reef, Shirley Heights & Darshaan’s line. Let’s turn the clock back to 2006, shall we?!
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Fair to say if Ouija Board hadn’t been a champ, there wouldn’t have been a Sea The Stars? Sure I once read Cape Cross was chosen for Urban Sea on the back of her exploits. Guess that makes her “step mum” to a Derby winner as well as dam of one in Australia?! Some legacy… RIP.
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Anyone else’s heart sink when they see this? We’re told that the Royal Meeting is about prestige & owners want runners there for non monetary reasons... But what of grass roots, where normal horses run for little financial reward & even less kudos? Who really deserves that £765k?
📰 Royal Ascot 2020 will be run for a record £8,095,000, an increase of £765,000 on 2019 values.
For the first time, the Royal Meeting will play host to two £1 million races; The Prince of Wales’s Stakes (from £750,000) and the Diamond Jubilee Stakes (from £600,000).
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Small in stature but huge in personality, Smurph was the epitome of a terrier - equally adept at killing rabbits as she was playing hot water bottle & keeping us cosy. Funny how a small dog can leave such a huge hole. RIP our
beautiful girl.
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I’ve been criticised before today for being pro Kameko. But is it wrong to want Classic winners to go on & prove themselves top class? The Guineas, Derby & Leger are our marquee races after all. What’s the point of them if you don’t believe in the credibility of the winners?
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Why can’t some of you just enjoy an astonishing performance? To keep up those sectionals on that ground suggest he’s a phenomenally gifted horse! Just because he’s French trained & by a sire you’ve all given up on … Vive le Rock!
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Today is a huge day in my wee world. Red Cortina (Pascal) will make his debut in the bumper at my local point to point. He’s always been big, backwards & prone to niggly problems so we’ve had to be patient. Just getting him here will be a triumph in itself…Safe oot, safe in!
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Felt this needed an airing on Epsom-eve. Balanchine beating Wind In Her Hair in the ‘94 Oaks. The former went on the beat the boys at the Curragh & the latter to become a legendary broodmare in Japan... Hope Godolphin don’t mind me borrowing this special pic from their website!
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Today we’ve lost one gallant grey and another is very poorly. Thoughts and prayers with connections of Silver Streak and Buzz tonight. Even if it does snow, it’s not going to be a proper white Christmas any more …
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Given Facile Vega’s prodigious talent, do you think his weanling full brother might be kept entire & campaigned as a stallion prospect? Buck’s Boum was not as good a racehorse as his older full brother Big Buck’s but has already sired a dual Gold Cup winner! Food for thought …
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Just a 31 year old retired thoroughbred broodmare enjoying turnout in the snow. Probably ought to mention she was a useful racehorse in her pomp as well. Oh Wind In Her Hair …
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Desert Crown’s story is one of extreme patience. Connections were patient with him as a juvenile, patient to nurse him back to race at four & patient in trying to rehabilitate this serious fetlock injury. Ultimately their patience wasn’t rewarded. My heart goes out to them… RIP.
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Wind In Her Hair, one week shy of her 33rd birthday. She’s just the most extraordinary mare …
僕も今日ウインドお母さんにメリクリ言いにノーザンホースパークへ😋
あと一週間後に33歳になるとは思えない…来年も無事クリスマスに会えますように😌
#ウインドインハーヘア
#ノーザンホースパーク
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Heartbreaking to hear that Goldikova has left us & so young - she was only sixteen. We were so lucky she was campaigned so aggressively - she won or was placed in six G1s at six! Condolences to connections - may her daughters continue the legacy. RIP beautiful mare.
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Who buys for Saeed Suhail? He’s had some fabulous horses in recent years & not always by the most fashionable stallions - Poet’s Word by Poet’s Voice, Cannock Chase by Lemon Drop Kid, Dream of Dreams by Dream Ahead & now Desert Crown by Nathaniel …
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Haven’t posted pics of my horses in a while. Struggle a bit with Banstead Syndrome, embarrassment that my paddocks aren’t pristine with perfect fences. But hey, it’s a wet winter in the Scottish Borders so here’s Petula (Equiano weanling) & Pascal (Garswood yearling) munching...
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My filly was entered to run today but not declared because of ground. I’m still aggrieved by the number of tweets decrying the quality of today’s racing. The vast majority of horses are low grade. Why should their owners be denied the opportunity to see them race on a Saturday?
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Every thoroughbred is born a potential Royal Ascot runner but very few actually make it there. Let’s just pause & remember those that never made a racecourse. And those that did but didn’t make the grade. You can’t celebrate the elite few & not spare a thought for the masses…
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The highest rated 2yo in training is by Pastoral Pursuits ex a Firebreak mare. Sired off a £4k cover out of a dam who never won a race. Please let that be an inspiration rather than a trigger for catty comments. Breeders need to dream otherwise there would be no horses to race!
Top of the shop - impressive
@Ascot
winner Ventura Rebel is the highest rated 2yo this year according to
@Timeform
, with a figure of 101p, and he looks a highly promising colt for
@RichardFahey
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RIP Deep Impact. Few horses have been more aptly named. You touched everyone from humble racing fans to bloodstock grandees. A brilliant racehorse, even better sire and truly global phenomenon. Goodbye and thankyou.
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Anyone else’s heart sink when they see this historic yard, esteemed trainer & beautiful horses emblazoned with a bookies logo? Hmm …
Constitution Hill & Jonbon!
Nicky Henderson’s Supreme hopes face off three weeks out…
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Two horses whose racing careers began in the same race have now sired consecutive Derby winners. First Frankel & now Nathaniel. It’s quite extraordinary… We all know the latter has hitherto been an excellent sire of fillies. That albatross is no longer round his neck. Woohoo!!!
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Yeats, on the cusp of being Champion sire with a Grand National winner & dual Stayers Hurdle hero to his name. Is he now on his way to being a great jumps sire? Or are there still nagging doubts? Hmm …
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Oju Chosan retiring after 40 races, 32 over jumps & eight on the level including the 2018 Arima Kinen because the fans voted him in! 18 wins, six places & over £5.5m in prizemoney. Still entire at 11 & now off to stud … British & Irish jumps horses, watch & weep! What a life?!
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Really hope
@itvracing
are going to show footage of this. It’s fabulous for a stud to be sponsoring at a big race meeting let alone bringing their stallions to show. We need to connect fans to breeding as it makes the sport more interesting & they could be future mare owners too!
Don’t forget... PLANTEUR, WALZERTAKT and BANGKOK are parading in the pre parade ring at
@CheltenhamRaces
from 11.30 👀
See you there!
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British & Irish bloodstock has prioritised speed over stamina. Our middle distance flat horses are no longer the best in the world & our jumpers are routinely beaten in top races by French breds. It wouldn’t hurt as much if we had lots of good sprinters but we don’t. Urm…?!
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In a polo yard somewhere in the world, there is a pony who is now broodmare sire of a G1 winner! Reckless Abandon was subfertile, gelded and retrained. Bless him …
🏆THE NHK MILE CUP(G1)
1.600 m, 253,400,000 Yen
🇯🇵 Tokyo
Champagne Color (JPN)
(3C Duramente - Memorial Life, by Reckless Abandon)
J :Hiroyuki Uchida
T :Tsuyoshi Tanaka
B & O :Yoichi Aoyama
🥈Umbrail (Lord Kanaloa)
🥉 Obamburumai(Discreet Cat)
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Performance of the week? The mare in open company who took on the best of the British & beat the Irish as well! Sine Nomine lived my dream today - to own a filly to point, race & breed from … Hats off girl, connections should be rocking tonight & rightfully so! Go get them…
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Why are Ascot adding incentives to get more American juveniles to the Royal Meeting? It’s not like any of the 2yo races are currently poorly contested! How’s about we try bulk up the fields for the middle distance & staying G1s? Some Japanese horses in the Gold Cup would be nice!
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Paris is on box rest after a nasty paddock accident. It’ll be three weeks tomorrow & we’re nowhere near halfway. It breaks my heart to have her inside whilst the other horses enjoy the spring sunshine & lush new grass. But she’s putting on a brave face …
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No, Waldkonig did not disappoint. He did not realise you’d extrapolated from a Wolverhampton maiden to world domination. Give these well connected debutant winners a break. They’re not all the next Frankel. With horses, a sense of perspective is always essential ...
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Utterly delighted with Kaze Wo Atsumete (aka Petula) on debut at Carlisle today. She looked a picture, behaved impeccably & ran an encouraging fifth. Many thanks to
@jardineracing
&
@andrewkmulleng1
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What drives hype in racing & the belittling that comes with it? Why are horses from certain yards with particular owners written up? Whilst horses from other yards with different owners looked down upon? It’s all so predictable, often unpleasant & detracts from bigger issues..
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Have we got to the bottom of the fireworks yet? Were they meant to go off post race? Were they sabotage? Were they proof that the authorities haven’t a clue? It was a fabulous Derby. But I’ll never forget the crime against animal welfare …
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When the fun stops stop! There is no joy in racing under lights in sub zero temperatures. And even less, travelling horses to & from these meetings. This has been obvious all week. But we’ve persisted. Isn’t insanity doing the same thing over again & expecting different results?
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Serious “covered ride” envy ... Is there a facility like this anywhere in Europe? Or anywhere else in the world outside Japan? Utterly extraordinary...
鞍上より「馬上で感じる以上のスピード感」とのお墨付きを頂きました。
ご自身が馬に乗っている気持ちでどうぞ！！
馬って速いでしょ？
ライダーって凄いでしょ？
どちらも本当に格好いいんですよ。
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Utterly in awe of Kirsten Rausing & her encyclopaedic knowledge of the Lanwades families, as displayed on ITV just now. Genius is a word bandied around all to often, but she is one. Aren’t we lucky to have role models like her and Jim Bolger?
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Poet’s Voice never stood for more than £12k & was available for just £6k when he died this year. He’s managed to sire 14 stakes winners though & many more placegetters. One of them is the mighty Poet’s Word of course. Think he deserves a wee bit more posthumous eulogy, don’t you?
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At what point did it start being assumed that 12f G1 winners would go to stud as jumps stallions? Since when did Derby winners have to drop down in trip to burnish their credentials as flat sires? And who or what is responsible for the trend?
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Merry Christmas from our little bit of the beautiful Scottish Borders. We hope you have fun, fine food & drink & a few moments for reflection as it’s been quite a year?! All the very best …
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If anybody dares to say that was a “weak G1...” Two horses battling it out against the contours and the elements. Absolutely fabulous, what our racing is all about ... Hats off to Pyledriver and Al Aasy, stirring stuff!
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Francesca mentioning Chaldean’s hoof fillers pre race & Andrew Balding thanking the farrier in his post race interview. Think this Guineas winner reminds us, “No foot, no horse …”
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Quite the perfect antidote to the sadness of today’s racing. Horses never cease to amaze. Can’t wait to see more of this blended family!
With two orphans I started to give up looking for foster mares for both as the likely hood was very slim. Last night we were offered a miracle mare, a Shire who lost her foal & had enough milk to feed both foals! Here is a quick video of the hard work & rewarding end!
#HappyFoals
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So Golden Horn is saved for the nation, what fabulous news?! It’s great to see new investors in stallions, keeping good prospects here & importing exciting new ones like Planteur. All we need to know now is where The Strad will end up?!
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Canford Cliffs, potentially a great loss to the NH stallion ranks? Three winners & one second from just four runners since Christmas. 29% winners to runners over jumps per se. He’s now sunning himself in South Africa but perhaps he should be getting to know some Presenting mares?
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Japan’s own pocket rocket, the adorable wee Memory Lane. I’d love to know how tall she is to the wither?! Weight wise, she’s 358kg so 120kg lighter than her half brother Titleholder going into the Arima Kinen & 164kg less than the heaviest runner Kiseki. Bless her …
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When you consider how poorly Addeyebb was last autumn, spending a fortnight in equine hospital with a badly infected hock, it’s extraordinary he returned to the track let alone won another G2. He’s an extraordinary wee horse, one of racing’s survivors. Happy retirement old chap!
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