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Satono Arthur (Deep Impact) broke his winless drought in emphatic style in the Gr.3 The Sekiya Kinen (1600m) at Niigata in Japan on Sunday. The six-year-old son of Deep Impact made a barnstorming run to overpower front-runner Trois Etoiles in the Japanese feature. Satono Arthur made his mark at
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Dual Group One winner Hello Youmzain (Kodiac) just came up short of adding a third elite-level victory to his burgeoning CV when finishing runner-up to Space Blues in Gr.1 Prix Maurice de Gheest (1300m) at Deauville over the weekend. Owned by Cambridge Stud principals Brendan and Jo Lindsay in
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Showcasing colt Mohaather demonstrated a devastating turn of foot to win the Gr.1 Sussex Stakes (1600m), the feature event on day two at Goodwood. Trained by Marcus Tregoning and ridden by Jim Crowley, the four-year-old endured a luckless run in the Gr.1 Queen Anne Stakes (1600m) at Royal
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Karaka graduate Sacred Capital (NZ) (O'Reilly) marked the anniversary of his Macau Derby (1800m) heroics with another stellar performance at the same meeting. Purchased out of Waikato Stud’s 2016 Ready To Run sale draft for $580,000, the quality gelding dominated Sunday’s M$800,000 Chairman
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Chi Chai Sin Sang (NZ) (Per Incanto) brought up his second career win in Macau on Saturday. The son of Per Incanto gave first season trainer Wayne Smith his eighth winner for the season with an impressive win in a Class 4 over 1200m, and giving apprentice Eric Cheung two
Breeding
Windsor Park Stud shuttle stallion Charm Spirit sired his eighth stakes winner when Time Scale proved a cut above her rivals to run out a ready winner of the Listed Betway Empress Fillies’ Stakes (1200m) at Newmarket in the UK on Sunday. The Ralph Beckett-trained two-year-old continued her climb through
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Globe-trotting jockey Alan Munro partnered two-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding Mighty New (NZ) (Red Giant) to an impressive Class 4 victory in a 1200m race at Seoul last weekend, which may pave the way for further Kiwi exports to South Korea. The son of Red Giant was one of nine horses
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Top quality sprinting colt Hello Youmzain (Kodiac) is in fine fettle ahead of Saturday’s Gr.1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes (1200m) at Royal Ascot where he will sport the colours of part-owner Cambridge Stud for the first time. The stallion prospect is prominent in the betting markets for the feature
Breeding
Haunui Farm shuttle stallion Belardo’s flying start as a freshman sire has continued over the weekend with two more winners, taking his tally to four winners in the space of seven days. Isabella Giles, from the Clive Cox yard, stuck to her task and started to pull away over
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Racing in Germany will restart at Hanover after being given clearance from authorities. The sport has been on hold since March because of the COVID-19 outbreak. Deutscher Galopp had planned to restart the action on Monday at Dortmund, with no spectators and strict hygiene measures in place. That meeting had
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British Health Secretary Matt Hancock has spoken positively about hopes racing can resume in Britain soon following its suspension because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The last meetings to take place in Britain were at Wetherby and Taunton on March 17, both behind closed doors. The British Horseracing Authority has been
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Secretariat is the 7-2 favourite for the virtual Kentucky Derby, an animated race featuring all 13 Triple Crown winners on the day the Derby would have been held before the coronavirus pandemic forced its postponement. The virtual Derby will use computer-generated imagery of the 13 horses running the 1-1/4-mile