11:26AM, APR 20 2021
Last week s Listed Lansdown Stakes winner Declaring Love has been added to the Tattersalls Guineas Horses in Training Sale a week on Friday.
The Godolphin-bred daughter of Dubawi - who is catalogued as Lot 37 - started off her career with Charlie Appleby and was third on debut behind subsequent Rockfel and Albany Stakes heroine Daahyeh in May 2019 before two further placed efforts in novice company last year.
Declaring Love then switched to John Butler in February, having sold to Megan Evans for 39,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale last year, and notched up her first win in a Wolverhampton novice.
Wesley Ward speedster Golden Pal ruled out of Royal Ascot
Fri 16 Apr 2021
Wesley Ward hopes to have star sprinter
Golden Pal back to his best in time for the Coolmore Nunthorpe after being forced to rule him out of an intended appearance at Royal Ascot.
Narrowly beaten by The Lir Jet when runner-up in the Norfolk Stakes at the Royal meeting in June, the son of Uncle Mo went one better in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint at his trainer’s home track of Keeneland in November.
Ward had hoped to give the three-year-old a prep run this spring before returning to Ascot for the King’s Stand – but Golden Pal will not be back until later in the season after suffering a minor setback.
Scott Burton on the Royal Ascot-winning trainer selling a top jumps prospect
Hardi Du Mesnil in the process of selling for a session-leading €250,000
Arqana UPDATED 7:12PM, FEB 15 2021
The Dublin Racing Festival was an amalgamation of races already in the Irish jumping calendar, but there can be no doubt its creation has magnified their importance, both on the racing and breeding front.
Coming barely a week later, Arqana s February sale is in a good spot to capitalise on any updates and it was no surprise that a half-brother of Gaillard Du Mesnil - winner at Leopardstown of the Grade 1 Nathaniel Lacy & Partners Solicitors Novice Hurdle and now favourite for the Ballymore at Cheltenham - attracted a flurry of bids from agents representing some key interests in Britain and Ireland.
Royal Ascot Meet Extended To Include Seven Races Each Day In 2021 Sponsored by:
The Queen s procession at the 2019 Royal Ascot meeting (Ascot racecourse photo)
Following the success of last year s extended Royal Ascot program, Ascot Racecourse has announced that Her Majesty The Queen has graciously consented to approve the extension to seven races each day for the 2021 Royal Meeting (June 15 through 19).
Last year, the Copper Horse Stakes, the Palace of Holyroodhouse Stakes and the Golden Gates Stakes were added to the program and the Buckingham Palace Stakes was reinstated. These races have all been retained.
Her Majesty has also approved the naming of the Kensington Palace Stakes (0-105), a new handicap to be run over the Old Mile for 4-year-old and upwards fillies and mares. Kensington Palace, set in Kensington Gardens, has been a residence for Members of the Royal Family since the 17th century.
UPDATED 4:07PM, JAN 5 2021
Kameko is set for a strong debut book after Tweenhills announced that they and Qatar Racing would be sending 45 of their own mares to last year s 2,000 Guineas hero.
The dual Group 1 winner is standing for a fee of £25,000 at the Gloucestershire-based stud alongside Zoustar, Lightning Spear and Havana Gold.
Among the eyecatchers in his book is the dual Grade 1 winner Con Te Partiro, a $1.6 million private purchase by Qatar Racing at Keeneland s November Breeding Sale.
Con Te Partiro, who struck in Australia in the Coolmore Classic and Legacy Stakes for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, is a daughter of the late Scat Daddy and out of the Grade 1-placed Street Cry mare Temple Street.