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Mehmento delivered on his early-season promise to take Listed honours in the Play Coral ‘Racing-Super-Series’ For Free Surrey Stakes.

Micro-scale trainer Michael Browne is sure to 

Monday Monday marks the return of racegoers in England and the best race of the day is the £40,000 Weatherbys ePassport Stakes (6.50), in which last years Sprint Cup winner Dream Of Dreams takes on just two rivals.  There is no Irish racing but there is a Group 3 at Chantilly, where the Prix Texanita (1.35) could showcase some emerging stars. The prime candidate is the Francois Rohaut-trained Suesa, who is unbeaten in three, including the Prix Sigy in the same grade last time.  Carlisle...

Ground key to Miss Amulet’s Curragh Classic challenge Mon 17 May 2021 Miss Amulet’s Irish 1,000 Guineas bid hinges on going conditions after heavy ground scuppered her run in the French version of the race on Sunday. The filly was an intended starter in ParisLongchamp’s Poule d’Essai des Pouliches – the French 1000 Guineas – but very soft going at the Paris track put paid to that plan. The race was supposed to be the grey’s opening run of the season, with heav...

. Market movers come thick and fast as the key Classic trials are run in Britain and Ireland, but big-race contenders can come from anywhere and its easy to miss a potential dark horse. Classic Clues, our new series running every morning, has you covered. Heres a recap of Fridays action and how it impacted the Classic betting. Racing round-up: Derab delivers at Newmarket Derab impressed for John and Thady Gosden when getting off the mark at Newmarket. It was a first win for the son of Sea The ...

The Leader Newspaper By Andrew Atkinson John Gosden trained Stradivarius is eyeing Royal Ascot Gold Cup glory on June 17 – under jockey Frankie Dettori – to become the second horse to win the race four times. Yeats is the only horse to do so. Dettori, who rode Stradivarius to victory in the Group 3 Longines Sagaro Stakes in April, said: “The dream is still alive. It’s sensational to ride a stayer with a turn of foot. “When Yeats won four Gold Cups you thought no one wo...

UPDATED 2:48PM, MAY 12 2021 Cieren Fallon is going through the nightmare scenario of having spent the past four days in quarantine in a Paris hotel room to ride in Sunday’s French 2,000 Guineas only to hear on Wednesday morning that his intended mount The Lir Jet is out of the race. The two-time champion apprentice is now waiting to hear whether he can fly back to Britain on Wednesday evening, but he has already missed high-profile rides at Yorks Dante meeting including Oxted, who fin...

Bolger exultant as "complete package" Poetic Flare delivers him more Guineas glory By Will Hayler Sat 1 May 2021 By Will Hayler at Newmarket At 79, Jim Bolger has wrestled with most of racings problems in his time, but he now hopes that 2021s greatest challenge could be the mission of keeping the two outstanding colts he has in his care apart for the rest of the season. Along with 54-year-old jockey Kevin Manning, Bolgers son-in-law and half of one of the sports most enduring pairings, he struc...

Past The Wire Search May 2, 2021 The Jim Bolger-trained Poetic Flare caused an upset at Newmarket, England, on Saturday, when winning the QIPCO 2000 Guineas. The son of Dawn Approach, who started the first British Classic of the season as a 16/1 chance, had his head down at the right time on the wire to beat Master Of The Seas (6/1) into second with Lucky Vega (12/1) back in third. The win was extra special for seventy-nine year-old Bolger as Poetic Flare carried his wife Jackie�...

Guineas day support races: Creative Force and Bell Rock take plaudits Sat 1 May 2021 Creative Force will have his sights raised after claiming a third victory from four career starts at Newmarket. Impressive on his racecourse debut on the Rowley Mile last season, the Dubawi colt disappointed on his only subsequent juvenile appearance in the the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot. However, having been gelded during the off-season, Charlie Appleby’s charge made a winning reappearance at the Craven ...