🚨 Changes announced to The Derby!
💷 Prize money for The Derby boosted to £2m
👑 The Coronation Cup moves to Saturday
🆓 Free admissions for U18s
🅿️ Free parking across Epsom Downs
Ed Chamberlin speaks with Jim Allen, General Manager at Epsom Down Racecourse
#ITVRacing
@Raceolly We have a great offer at the moment for our 2yo filly for next year , £50 upfront followed by £50 pm , small syndicate as most retained by us. For more info , [email protected],uk
“The sales make me far more nervous than race-riding,”
Luke Morris and Molly Nash Steer spoke to @CollingsBerry about the delights of breeding and foal prep.
Look out for their foals @Tattersalls1766 under @Consignltd https://t.co/0R0sVMTgp1
Bought a horse at Arqana in 2023, already named Luna Lux.
Entered for a race next week.
Message from Weatherby's saying needs to be named here as well (what?!)
Cost to do so?
£451
Are you absolutely sure, @BHAHorseracing ?
How NOT to get owners into racing...
Wootton Bassett 2008 – 2025
Wootton Bassett, one of the world’s great sires has sadly passed away today at Coolmore Australia having suffered from choke and subsequently developing an acute pneumonia which deteriorated rapidly. Despite round-the-clock care from a dedicated team of vets, overseen by Dr Nathan Slovis from Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Kentucky, he was unable to be saved.
Wootton Bassett’s story as a sire is a unique one. Nicolas de Chambure got him off to an incredible start at Haras d’Etreham in France before he was acquired by Coolmore in 2020. In his time at Coolmore he developed into a world class sire, with 25 Stakes winners and six Group 1 winners from his current two and three-year-old crops conceived in Ireland. Included amongst these are multiple Group 1-winning sons Camille Pissarro and Henri Matisse as well as this season’s multiple Group 1-winning filly, Whirl. His current two-year-old crop in Europe already includes six Group winners. Albert Einstein, who defeated subsequent Group 1 winner Power Blue in the Group 3 Marble Hill Stakes, is considered by both Aidan O’Brien and Ryan Moore to be one of the best two-year-olds ever seen in Ballydoyle. Two more colts, Constitution River and Puerto Rico, have won Group 2 races in recent weeks while a pair of fillies, Composing and Beautify, both scored at the same level. Coolmore’s valued clients have three more crops in the pipeline the first of which will come under the hammer at the yearling sales in the weeks ahead.
In Australia, his first crop is highlighted by this year’s Golden Slipper runner-up and first colt home Wodeton, who lines up in the Group 1 Golden Rose Stakes this weekend for Chris Waller.
Breaking: Wootton Bassett, one of the world’s best sires, has died at the age of 17.
He sired multiple Group 1 winners including Almanzor, King Of Steel, Al Riffa and Whirl
Zavateri 🥇🥇🥇🥇
Congratulations to ROA Members' Mick and Janice Mariscotti with their unbeaten star - Zavateri on winning the Gr 1 National Stakes @curraghrace yesterday!
Congratulations also to @johnsonhoughton and her team! ✨
In tomorrow's Racing Post:
On Wednesday, British racing goes dark, and so has the Racing Post front page. In an unprecedented act of protest, the sport has voluntarily cleared the schedule to sound the alarm over a feared government tax raid that threatens the sport's future
The Injured Jockeys Fund has released the following update on Jim Crowley, Trevor Whelan and David Noonan:
“Jim Crowley and Trevor Whelan were both taken to Leeds General Infirmary Hospital after a fall on the Flat at York racecourse on Sunday afternoon.
"Jim sustained a pelvic and leg fracture and after initial treatment to stop internal bleeding on Sunday, he underwent surgery yesterday to stabilise his fractures. He is doing well post operation, is in good spirits and will remain in hospital for the time being.
"Trevor has a complex ankle fracture and was placed in a cast in Leeds General Infirmary. He is seeing a specialist ankle surgeon in London today to plan his surgery.
"In a separate incident at Fontwell on Sunday, David Noonan underwent surgery on Monday at Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton to stabilise a leg fracture. He is doing well post op and hopes to be discharged soon.
"All three jockeys will require prolonged recovery and rehabilitation. They are extremely grateful for the excellent care they received from the medical teams on the racecourses and would like to thank everybody for their concern.”
What the anti gamblers/woke brigade won’t admit to is that people WILL ALWAYS GAMBLE. There are only 2 factors
1) What will they bet on
2) Who with
Racing NEEDS to do everything it can to be one of the best answers to factor 1 whilst making sure the legal way of placing a bet is well regulated but not to the point we have today where it’s almost impossible to have a bet and you may as well go black market!!!
This means making it as competitive/straight (everyone loves the odd gamble 😁) as possible and priced accordingly for those who attend. LESS IS MORE is surely the way forward.
@racingblogger Just like to say my horse si solus only have second start finishing 2 goes for £40000 mdn at Hamilton on 22 ! He’d been off the course for 6 months ! Two starts twice 2 nd 4 year old ..