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    • Juddmonte's Kalpana (Study Of Man) is among 15 fillies remaining in contention for Saturday's G1 Paddy Power Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh. She could take on Coolmore's Oaks runner-up Whirl (Wootton Bassett) and Estrange (Night Of Thunder), Cheveley Park Stud's emerging force in the fillies' middle-distance ranks.  “That's the current plan,” Juddmonte's racing manager Barry Mahon said of Kalpana on Tuesday morning. “We're just waiting on the forfeits today to see what's in the race and we'll check on France [Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud] tomorrow but Plan A seems to be the Curragh.” Kalpana's sole outing since winning the G1 Qipco British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes last October has also been at the Curragh, where she was third to Los Angeles (Camelot) and Anmaat (Awtaad) in a hot running of the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup. “She finished behind those two and it was big run. Hopefully that will put her bang there for this weekend,” Mahon added. The Juddmonte team has already enjoyed 15 stakes wins in 2025, led by Field Of Gold (Kingman), who backed up his win in the Irish 2,000 Guineas with a sensational victory over his fellow Classic winners Henri Matisse (Wootton Bassett) and Ruling Court (Justify) in the St James's Palace Stakes. He could head next to either the Sussex Stakes or Prix Jacques le Marois. Mahon said of the John and Thady Gosden-trained colt, “All good, he's happy and has started back cantering, and everybody seems happy with him. We don't really have a plan as such but it feels like we will be heading either to Goodwood or to Deauville and see where that brings us. He has come out of the race well.” He added of Field Of Gold's performance on the opening day of Royal Ascot, “He was very impressive, wasn't he? John said after Ireland that he thought he was as good as Kingman, and everyone has seen it now. He was justified in what he said.  “The scary thing about him is that I thought, personally, that every time he ran he had improved physically. He looked like he has got stronger every run this year, and that's the exciting bit. Hopefully he can keep getting stronger and keep improving.”   The post Kalpana Pointing Towards Curragh Return; Field Of Gold Resumes Cantering appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
    • I'm  sorry to correct  you  TAB FOREVER, but the year Rondel won at Addington, Real Force and Peter  Davis  won the Trotting final
    • Golden Reigns win in 1995 was with Chris Alford as driver...he recently drove our young trotter in Auckland....I told him ,do your best Aussie and he smiled !! I guess you had to be there ! the third horse ,along with VS [a mare]  disqulified later was Young Mister Charles.Chokin was put up to 2nd { AGH] Victor Supreme was a good breeder with some good winner like the Stephen Reid pair Victors Delight and Utmost Delight [ Jewels winner].Anothe handy winner was Supremacy which after being a shy breeder has had two recent winners at Auckland including 2yr old Buddy Guy. The 19995 Final had some top horses in it incl Blossom Lady , BeeBee Cee and Master Musician. Also a neighbour of ours ,real small time breeder Alex McDonald who trained Lento a handy mare. Alex didnt train many ,he used to play rugby on wing for Taieri. Another wing on same road was Sid Brown who played for Taieri and Otago. He owned Foreal an Interdom contender at some stage plus Field Marshall a top horse. Sid currently has Sparkle running around Auckland. He and his Dad Jim sold the Pie and Chips at the 1965 Interdoms at Forbury. How time flies...thats 60years ago !
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    • The victory of Allonsy in Sunday's Pontefract Castle Fillies' Stakes brought up a notable milestone for Lanwades Stud as the Study Of Man filly was the 100th Listed winner bred at the farm during the tenure of Kirsten Rausing.  The owner-breeder's association with the stud began in 1984 and during the intervening four decades 34 Group 1 winners have been bred at Lanwades, led by the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Alpinista (Frankel), along with 29 Group 2 and 41 Group 3 winners, bringing the total to 204 stakes winners worldwide.  “It has taken some time, but it does, and I can't compete with the big boys but we try our best with limited numbers,” said Rausing. She added of Allonsy, who is now a five-time winner for Ralph Beckett, “She was brave, and it was only some time afterwards that I realised she had broken the track record by two seconds.” Beckett also trained Allonsy's dam, the G2 Park Hill Stakes winner Alyssa. The four-year-old filly therefore represents a cross of the Lanwades stallions Study Of Man and Sir Percy, the latter residing at the stud still in retirement.  Rausing's other Listed winner of the season is the Feilden Stakes winner Almeric, who is also by Study Of Man out of a daughter of another Lanwades stalwart, Selkirk. Trained by Andrew Balding, the three-year-old colt has won two of his three starts and held an entry for the Prix du Jockey Club and Irish Derby but has been temporaily sidelined.  “Almeric has had a small setback but we he is back in light work and we hope that he will reappear later in the season,” Rausing reported. Study Of Man's presence at Lanwades continues a long allegiance with his breeder, the Niarchos family, which stretches back to Niniski, the first stallion to be stood by Rausing.  A son of Deep Impact, bred on the same cross with Storm Cat as Japan's reigning champion sire Kizuna, Study Of Man has covered his biggest book to date this season. He could be represented by his Group 1-winning daughter Kalpana as well as G2 Prix Saint-Alary winner Birthe – both members of his first crop of just 55 foals – in this Saturday's G1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh. “He's covering some better mares now for obvious reasons,” said Rausing. “It was an uphill struggle for the first four or five years really, but he has done it himself, the hard way.” Among the mares with foals on the ground by him this year is Alpinista, who is now in foal to Siyouni. Her breeder added, “Alpinista is in excellent form and gave an audience to a group of Australian visitors here yesterday. She has a very nice colt foal, and her first foal is the yearling filly by Dubawi, who is not going to any sales. “Alpinista travelled to France with Alyssa, the dam of Allonsy, who also has a colt foal by Study Of Man and is now in foal to Zarak, which is quite interesting inbreeding to Mumtaz Begum, although a long way away.” The post Allonsy Brings Up Important Lanwades Milestone appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
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