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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Luke Lillingston will not want 2025 to end. The magical year for Mount Coote Stud has consisted of 42 individual winners, including headline acts like Santorini Star and Laurelin, who is one of the poster girls for the Goffs Orby Sale. And rightly so. Under the care of Graham Motion, the Orby graduate has won all five of her starts in America and is understood to be on course for the Grade I Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes at Keeneland next month. “You never want to toot the horn too loudly but we've had a good year,” said Lillingston of the famous farm's outstanding run of success. “Firstly with quantity, I think we have produced 42 individual winners of 60 races this year. Among those there have been five or six individual black-type winners and Laurelin, who is a Goffs Orby graduate, is obviously one of those.Then there is her close relation Marquisat, Al Aasy, Santorini Star and more.” Lillingston's yearling purchases have also been performing with distinction. Despite signing for just four yearlings last year on behalf of the Kennet Valley Racing Syndicate, Lillingston came up trumps with Calendar Girl, winner of the recent Wetherbys-sponsored £300,000 sales race at Doncaster. A daughter of Advertise, Calendar Girl was sourced four just 45,000gns at the Book 2 session of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale and follows on from the similarly well-bought Dragon Leader (El Kabeir), who cost £45,000 at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale and won another lucrative pot when Lillingston jokingly says 'Harry [Beeby] only handed out £300,000 and not £500,000′ for the Premier Yearling Stakes in 2023. In summary, Lillingston knows how to pick 'em. “We only bought four yearlings and she was one of them, so it's been fun,” he said of Calendar Girl. “I actually went to see her the other day at Owen Burrows' yard and she looks amazing. Hopefully she has a big future. Okay, she won a sales race, so what do we know? But we think she could be pretty good.” Lillingston added, “We try to buy horses that we believe in and, when you are not spending lots of money, you need to compromise somewhere. Not that we don't look at lots of horses by major stallions, but we are not afraid to buy them by less fashionable stallions or stallions we feel are a little bit underrated.” Laurelin | Sarah Andrew Lillingston reports Laurelin's dam Bari (Cape Cross) not to be in foal this year but revealed he is planning to mate the 14-year-old back to Zarak in 2016. Her success Stateside is understood to have lured her connections – Motion and owners Newstead Stables – to make the trip to Goffs for the Orby Sale, which kicks off on Monday, where Lillingston will offer two colts – by Cracksman and Zoustar – under the Mount Coote Stud banner. Recalling Laurelin as a yearling, Lillingston said, “She was a nice filly. She cost €160,000 and I guess Zarak was just starting to put his head above the parapet as being a good stallion at the time. Obviously he has gone on since then. But she was a nice yearling and was well found by Jehan Malherbe [Form Bloodstock]. I remember when Laurelin broke her maiden, Graham told me that he thought she could be pretty good. Graham is a pretty understated guy so, when he said that, I took note. He has been proved absolutely right. “I am looking forward to meeting Graham and Laurelin's owners at Goffs over the next few days. The last time I spoke with him he mentioned he would like to run Laurelin in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes at Keeneland next month so hopefully she is still on track for that. You'd never know, she could end up being the champion turf filly in North America this year. We better keep our horse in front of our cart here but, if she stays sound and keeps on progressing, she could well be.” He concluded, “Graham, along with Laurelin's owners, are coming to to the Orby. That's great news for Goffs. We can't sell them a good filly this time – we're only selling two colts at the Orby Sale – but hopefully they will find good luck again.” The post Laurelin’s Breeder And Consignor Lillingston Looks Forward To Goffs Orby Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
Stipendiary stewards provided an update on all riders and horses which saw May (pelvis), Grylls (shoulder/arm) and Taplin (wrist) transferred to hospital for further observation and treatment whilst Atchamah (possible concussion) and Murray were cleared of any serious injury. All horses came through the incident relatively unscathed with just bumps, bruises and scrapes reported. Stipendiary stewards met with the remaining jockeys on-course and it was agreed that the final two races on the day would be abandoned. -
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Beauty Generation, Golden Sixty and California Spangle all won the Group Three Celebration Cup (1,400m) before breaking through at Group One level in the Hong Kong Mile later in the same year, something a host of hopefuls are gunning to emulate in 2025. All three gallopers were returning after a season that revolved around four-year-old series campaigns and this Sunday’s Celebration Cup is loaded with horses that fit that category, even if connections’ hopes of reaching the level of any of that...View the full article -
Attitude: Cold, Defensive, and Running from Accountability — Becks Nairn Becks Nairn showed a serious lack of feeling in the way she responded to the Hanmer accident, where a young girl was kicked in the face by a horse. A child’s nose was smashed. Her father had to carry her, bleeding, for over a kilometre. And what did Nairn offer? Not a shred of compassion. Not a hint of concern. Just a pile of excuses. She claimed the guide “froze.” She said the father “took off.” She spoke of regulations and procedures as if they somehow justified doing nothing. But where was the humanity? Where was the apology? Where was the basic decency to say, “This should never have happened”? Instead, she treated it like a PR crisis. It didn’t seem to matter whether the child recovered—only that the business reputation stayed intact. And that’s not new. Nairn has had business failures before, quietly swept under the carpet. She moves quickly, evades responsibility, and never gets close enough to be held accountable. You don’t get the truth. You get fragments—filtered, trimmed, and self-aggrandising. That article was sent to me by a woman from the south, and I was enraged. Not just by the accident, but by Nairn’s attitude. The coldness. The lack of ownership. It makes you wonder what else has been masked. I couldn’t help but laugh when she called herself a “director.” A tin-pot trekking enterprise she couldn’t manage. Then she quotes herself as working with “the best in the world”—despite having no formal education. How grandiose can you get? This wasn’t leadership. It was evasion dressed up as professionalism. And the public deserves better.I There is more to post at a later stage -
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Six-year-old mare She’s Unusual was a well-supported winner of the Irresistible Pools & Spas Handicap (1900m) at Rosehill on Saturday. The daughter of Unusual Suspect was perfectly ridden by Zac Lloyd, tracking the leader Nkosi before unleashing a devastating sprint to score by just over three lengths. Sporting the colours of OTI Racing for trainers John O’Shea and Tom Charlton, the Randwick conditioners believe the mare is best-suited by a space between runs. “Bar one hiccup this preparation, she has been superb,” Charlton said. “We probably really learnt how to handle her and train her and she presented in excellent order today at her favoured distance and she’s very fit. “She is a lightly-framed mare, there is not much of her but we will keep her nice and fresh. “We like to space her runs as you can see and she nice and effective.” The winner of five races with a further six placings from just 13 starts, She’s Unusual is likely to be set for the Gr.3 Tesio Stakes (2040m) at The Valley on Cox Plate Day. Winning rider Zac Lloyd said She’s Unusual was a strong stayer but her turn of foot is what separated her from her rivals. “Nkosi I thought would build from the 800m because he looks a bit one-paced where she handled that pressure so comfortably,” Lloyd said. “Her turn of foot was really good.” She’s Unusual’s time of 1:54.98 was just a second outside the track record over the 1900m. The winner of an Awapuni maiden over 1400m for Fraser Auret in late 2023, She’s Unusual was bred by Auret’s parents Nigel and Adaire. She’s Unusual is a daughter of Unusual Suspect, who stands at the Auret family’s Letham Stud, where the stallion has carved a good niche producing middle-distance gallopers and is the sire of 49 winners from 83 starters. View the full article
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