sires in form
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009The Prix Morny was expected to see Cranford Cliffs prove himself a superstar. Instead he finished only third behind narrow winner Arcano. Arcano is now unbeaten in three runs after winning a Newmarket maiden and the Group 2 July stakes also at Newmarket. His win wasn’t visually impressive and more improvement will be required if he [...]
Montjeu jumps to the fore
Thursday, January 8th, 2009Sadler’s Wells has had a profound effect on the jump racing scene, even more so than his impact on the flat. A look at the current jump stallions standings shows Sadler’s Wells himself in 15th position by prize money and an astonishing 7 of his sons are ahead of him in the stallion rankings. These [...]
What Goes Up? Recession Busters
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008Chicken Little aka Chicken Licken wasn’t wrong, she was just ahead of her time. Nowadays it seems that the sky really is falling down as asset values crash around the world. Stallion fees are understandably under pressure as the recent sales season showed falls in the grosses, averages, and medians. However there are still some [...]
Compton Place for Pace
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Compton Place is after a fantastic few weeks. On the 19th July the six year old Intrepid Jack won the Group 3 Hackwood Stakes over 6 furlongs. On the 1st August the two year old Prolific won the Group 2 Richmond Stakes and then to cap it all on the 22nd August another 6 year old Borderlescott [...]
Who likes it heavy?
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008I blame the Chinese for the ‘Summer’ we just endured. Once they stopped burning all that coal in an effort to clean up Beijing’s polluted air for the Olympics they somehow changed the Irish climate for the worse. Also I’ve developed a new theory on the extinction of the dinosaurs which I suspect was caused by a [...]
Sires in Form- Mere Coincidence?
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008There is a popular thread on the betfair breeding forum regarding ‘sires in form’. Forumites diligently monitor and report upon those sires who are having the most winners in a particular month. Thus far in July Royal Applause has had 18 winners, ahead of Bahamian Bounty and Kheleyf. Every month seems to see different sires [...]
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