Wandering Eyes

In a coup for the King family’s Brighthill Farm, Group One performed son of Frankel, Eminent, will retire to their Tauwhare property for the forthcoming breeding season, where he will stand for a fee of $8,000+GST. Eminent becomes the first son of the all-conquering Frankel to retire to stud in the southern hemisphere. Raced by Sir Peter Vela, in conjunction with Hubie De Burgh, Eminent won three of his 14 career starts, prepared predominantly by Martyn Meade before transferring to the care ... View the full article

Former Hong Kong racecaller Richard Hoiles is centre stage this week during the much famed Royal Ascot meeting but it was not always a straightforward route for the Englishman.While he always loved racing, Hoiles was once destined for a career full of numbers, as a qualified accountant.However, finding that “young hard-nosed strategic analysts” were not the flavour of the month when the recession hit in 1992, he looked elsewhere for a career change and says modestly he “stumbled and fluked” his… View the full article

“The revitalisation of this industry is underway,” says Racing Minister Winston Peters as the Racing Reform Bill passed its third and final reading in Parliament today. The Bill, which comes into force on 1 July, opens the starting gate for the transition of the New Zealand Racing Industry into a financially sustainable future. The Bill reconstitutes the New Zealand Racing Board as the Racing Industry Transition Agency, (RITA). RITA will have a new membership and a legislative mandate... View the full article

Addressing your thoughts, questions and statements about Hong Kong racing. Have something to say? Send a tweet to @SCMPRacingPost.Day one Royal Ascot HKJC simulcast hold (with the “world pool” included) up from average HK$27.2 million per race in 2018 to HK$37.3 million per race – @chapeauxxThe “world pool” concept – which commingles totes from 10 countries around the globe and is hosted by the Jockey Club – kicked off at Royal Ascot this week and seems to be going along well.The idea is that… View the full article

Tony Cruz admits two-time Group One winner Time Warp’s best days are likely behind him but remains confident that if the six-year-old gets his own way he can be right in the finish in Sunday’s Group Three Premier Plate (1,800m) at Sha Tin.After winning at Group Three level early in the season and finishing third in December’s Group One Longines Hong Kong Cup, Time Warp’s form has dipped considerably, with his lead-at-all-costs racing style failing to deliver results.“He’s been pretty… View the full article

A new era in international racing got off to a strong start on day one of Royal Ascot (June 18) with the Hong Kong Jockey Club reporting a significant increase in turnover compared to the corresponding day in 2018. In partnership with Ascot and Totepool, the HKJC has created the first ever pari-mutuel-based World Pool in which overseas wagers from the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Europe and the USA are commingled into Hong Kong’s pools directly or via Totepool to ensure maximum liquidit... View the full article

The Nigel Tiley-trained Riodini kicked-off his raceday career in perfect style at Counties on Thursday, winning the NZB Insurance Pearl Series Race (1200m) and securing the $8,000 bonus for his connections. The two-year-old son of Proisir headed into the race off the back of a 935m trial win at Cambridge last month and Tiley was pleased with his first-up effort, winning by three lengths over Sai Fah, with a further three lengths back to Ruby Negroni in third. “He got to the line very well. I t... View the full article

The Keith Opie-trained Ticket to Ride secured her fourth career victory at Counties on Thursday when taking out the Lone Star Pukekohe 1600. There was an early injection of speed in the race, with four horses contending for the lead. After initially sitting parked, jockey Darren Danis pressed forward to take control of the race at the 900m. Ticket to Ride went clear in the straight to record a 2-1/4 length victory over Rippin, with Tipical a further half a head back in third. Opie thought his ma... View the full article

Never-say-die Bullbars mare Te Toro Pearl has Cambridge trainer Jon Miller daring to dream big ahead of Saturday's Listed Ultimate Ford And Mazda Tauranga Classic (1400m). Miller will produce his stable star in the weight-for-age fillies and mares feature not only with the aim of winning but also with a view to assessing her prospects for next season's Gr.1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m) at Hastings. Entries for the first Group One race of the new season close on July 16 and provided Te Toro Pearl conti... View the full article

The Racing Reform Bill has now entered its third reading in parliament and is, in the main, receiving cross-party support. What is the bill about? The Messara Report was commissioned in April 2018 to look at the status of the thoroughbred racing industry in New Zealand and provide recommendations for possible reform of the industry.The Racing Reform Bill is the first of two law-making responses that would put into effect some of the report’s key proposals. These proposals w... View the full article

Kelvin Tyler is hoping to spoil the favourites' party in Saturday's Greenwood Amberley Cup (1600m), suggesting his pair The Bumper and Lil Miss Swiss are in prime order to cause an upset in the Riccarton feature. Tyler, who trains at Riverton with his daughter Aimee, has already won the Amberley Cup twice, with Timy Tyler in 2015 and Lochan Ora the following year, and believes improving Bullbars five-year-old gelding The Bumper and proven Rip Van Winkle five-year-old mare Lil Miss Swiss are in t... View the full article

Taranaki Racing Inc. today announced that the second running of the $101,000 ITM Winter Challenge may not be run as programmed on Saturday 24 August.At this stage nine of the 14 slot holders from the initial year have replied to the club that they do not wish to participate in 2019. Club CEO, Carey Hobbs, commented “Unless the club can confirm 14 slot holders by the 19th of July, the race will be reprogrammed as a $30,000 Special Conditions Maiden run over 1400m, with no sl... View the full article

It's hardly a surprise that Chad Brown has a strong hand in the $300,000 United Nations Stakes (G1T). The three-time Eclipse Award winner has already won the grade 1 turf stakes three times, and he's well represented in the upcoming June 22 edition. View the full article

Epic Racing's Valedictorian leads a field of six the $150,000 Eatontown Stakes (G3T) at Monmouth Park June 22. The consistent mare hit the board in seven straight races before her last outing and will look to rebound in the 1 1/16-mile turf feature. View the full article

7.20 Leopardstown, Mdn, €17,500, 2yo, 8fT ARTHUR’S KINGDOM (IRE) (Camelot {GB}) is one of two from Ballydoyle in this six-runner affair and an intriguing newcomer as a half-brother to the triple GI Canadian International hero Joshua Tree (Ire) by Camelot’s sire Montjeu (Ire). Joining the €260,000 Goffs Orby graduate is stablemate Toronto (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), a half-brother to Canford Cliffs (Ire) who was fifth over seven furlongs here last month, while they meet Jon Kelly’s Hint of Stars (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}), a 115,000gns TATOCT Jessie Harrington-trained son of the G1 Preis der Diana heroine Rosenreihe (Ire) (Catcher In the Rye {Ire}) 8.30 Lingfield, Novice, £5,800, 2yo, 6f (AWT) CHEROKEE MIST (City Zip) was a $500,000 Keeneland September Yearling purchase by Godolphin whose dam is a half to the multiple graded-stakes scorer and ‘TDN Rising Star’ Gamble’s Ghost (Ghostzapper). Charlie Appleby lines up the May-foaled chestnut colt against Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum’s similarly-unraced filly Top Class Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), a Richard Hannon-trained €240,000 Goffs Orby buy whose listed-placed dam is connected to Bungle Inthejungle (GB). The post Observations on the European Racing Scene appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Maven, the first winner in the United States for American Pharoah, was scheduled to make his stakes debut June 20 when he faces an expected 14 other juveniles in the Norfolk Stakes (G2) at Royal Ascot. View the full article

There is a camaraderie at any racetrack that you seldom find in other sports or businesses–not only among the trainers who show up at an unfamiliar venue with a horse box and one or twofour-legged lifelines to the sport; not only among the riders who check into a new jockey’s room with a duffel bag, a helmet, a whip and a dream. Sometimes it doesn’t work out for the unfamiliar names of trainers and jockeys. And many times they end up as regulars in any number of different roles at your favorite racetrack. Angel Cordero, Jr. was a top rider. Now he books mounts all over the world for John Velazquez, who is riding here at Royal Ascot this week. I remember Buddy Martens, an exercise rider in his own right, who operated the elevator for the NYRA when he gave up riding horses. And Buddy’s son, George Martens, just happened to ride the winner of the Belmont S. in 1981 on Summing. So it was not that strange to have conversation with Charlie Tipthorn in the Press Box at the Royal Ascot meeting on Wednesday. Charlie now works in the security department for the most famous racetrack in the world, but the conversation quickly turned to recently departed trainer Rick Violette, Jr. Back in 1990 Charlie was an aspiring steeplechase jockey who was exercising horses here in England. In the spring, after the jump season was slowing down, times were tough and jobs were infrequent. Charlie, at 18, lied to his parents and told them he had a job in the United States. There was no job. He took all of his savings and bought a ticket to New York. Charlie said he spent almost every penny he had on a hotel the night he arrived and a taxi to Belmont Park the next morning. At the Belmont Park stable gate, the Pinkerton guard in charge told him he was “a mad Englishman to arrive with no job.” But, he was given a three-day pass to find work. He was “an odd bird,” with English riding boots and clothes. That is where Rick Violette changed the course of the life for Charlie Tipthorn. He hired the youngster as an exercise rider. With his first paycheck, Tipthorn bought a set of American riding gear, and settled in on the backstretch in Elmont, New York. Charlie was devastated when I told him that Rick had passed away last October. The outpouring of respect was overwhelming. Tipthorn said that Violette was the most focused person in any backstretch to the needs of his horses, and a deep commitment to the men and women who are the backbone of racing. He called his association with Violette a miracle of his life and a teacher on being strict and determined in whatever he did. Charlie moved back to England later that year. He worked for trainers Guy Harwood, Nicky Henderson and others. He did ride in steeplechase races here in England, but that profession was short lived, as the weight factor cut his riding days short. Nine stone (126 pounds) became impossible. But not the influence of Rick Violette. Not just for the more than 800 races won. Not just for the more than 32 graded stakes winners he conditioned. Not just for the humor, wit, compassion and intelligence he brought to his industry quests. And not just for his extraordinary work as president of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association. But for all of that and more, on July 17 this year at Saratoga the first Rick Violette Stakes for 2-year-olds with a purse of $100,000 will be presented. Rick’s influence and example reaches much farther than the racetrack at Saratoga. The post Letter from Ascot: Violette’s Influence Still Felt Across the Pond appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

4th-Indiana Grand, $35,100, Alw, 6-19, (NW1X), 3yo/up, f/m, 1m 70y (off turf), 1:41.11, gd. MORE ROSES (f, 3, Uncle Mo–Flattermewithroses {SW}, by Flatter) romped by 5 3/4 lengths in an off-the-turf event over this course-and-distance on debut May 14 and was hammered down to 3-5 favoritism to repeat in this scratched down, rained-off affair. Hustling straight to the front yet again, the $380,000 FTKNOV buy set unpressured early fractions while running off the rail on a clear lead. Showing the way into the stretch, the bay cruised clear to win as she pleased by six lengths over French Legacy (Midnight Lute). Stakes winner Flattermewithroses is also responsible for the unraced juvenile filly Merneith (American Pharoah), who summoned $600,000 at OBS March after breezing in :20 4/5; a yearling colt by Exaggerator; and a Classic Empire filly born Mar. 2 of this year. Sales history: $380,000 Wlg ’16 FTKNOV. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $38,100. Click for the Equibase.com chart. O-LNJ Foxwoods; B-Copper Water Thoroughbred Company, LTD. (KY); T-Brad H. Cox. The post Uncle Mo Filly Remains Perfect at Indiana appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

After punching her ticket to the GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff with an impressive performance in Saturday evening’s ‘Win and You’re In’ GII Fleur de Lis H. beneath the lights at Churchill Downs, a title defense in the GII Delaware H. July 13 could be next for ‘TDN Rising Star’ Elate (Medaglia d’Oro). “Ideally, we will run in the Delaware H. and then the [GI] Personal Ensign [at Saratoga Aug. 24] if she is doing well and takes us there,” Claiborne President Walker Hancock said. “Obviously, she has a free entry to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, so that will be the year-end goal as of now.” Trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott, the Claiborne Farm and Adele B. Dilschneider homebred faced the starter only twice in 2018, impressively capturing the 1 1/4-mile Delaware centerpiece in her seasonal debut followed by a painful second to champion Abel Tasman (Quality Road) with a career-best 105 Beyer Speed Figure in a roughly run renewal of the Personal Ensign. She was forced to sit out last year’s Distaff after popping a splint. Elate was somewhat disappointing in a pair of prior efforts to kick off her 5-year-old campaign going 1 1/16 miles at Oaklawn, finishing second in the GII Azeri S. Mar. 16 and third in the GI Apple Blossom H. Apr. 14. The winner of both of those races Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute) added a jaw-dropping score in the GI Ogden Phipps on the GI Belmont S. undercard. “We’re very glad to see her back in top form,” Hancock said. “Clearly, 1 1/16 miles is too short for her, which explains her flat performances in Arkansas this spring. If the race was that far the other night, she would’ve been third again so we will keep her at nine furlongs or longer the rest of the year.” The post Familiar Course Plotted for Elate appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

When the MATCH Series returns to Delaware Park July 13, eight horses will have the opportunity to qualify for the lucrative owner and trainer bonuses tied to each series division. View the full article

It seems like a strange thing to say but the Norfolk Stakes looks like a one-horse race with Sunday Sovereign likely to start as a short-priced favourite. Paddy Twomey’s charge beat Coventry winner Arizona two starts back and was an impressive winner on soft at Tipperary when last seen. He has been purchased by King […] The post Royal Ascot Preview – Day 3 appeared first on RaceBets Blog EN. View the full article

Tracy Farmer’s homebred Sir Winston (Awesome Again), the winner of this year’s GI Belmont S., has been ruled out of a summer campaign due to a minor left front ankle injury. The story was originally reported by the Daily Racing Form. “He has a minor left front ankle injury and he’s going to do some rehab at the farm. He’s back in Ocala now [at Casse’s personal training center], he’s going to be off for a little while,” said trainer Mark Casse. “I’m still hopeful we’ll be back in the fall, we’ll play it by ear. The (GI) Travers S. is not going to be an option.” Casse mentioned the GI Pegasus World Cup S. in January as a possible long-term goal for Sir Winston. This news comes shortly after trainer Bill Mott announced GI Kentucky Derby winner Country House (Lookin At Lucky) would be out for the remainder of the season. The post Sir Winston Sidelined with Minor Injury appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency 3rd-BEL, $80K, Msw, 3yo, 1m, 4:07p.m. Chad Brown unveils a $1 million KEESEP buy with a high-powered ownership group behind him in SAGAPONACK (Quality Road), who is campaigned in partnership by Peter Brant, Joseph Allen and the Coolmore contingent of Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith. Out of SW Storm Minstrel (Storm Cat), the bay colt is a full-brother to MGSW Blofeld. His second dam is MGSW Colonial Minstrel (Pleasant Colony), herself a daughter of champion Minstrella (The Minstrel). The sophomore enters off a best-of-38 half-mile in :48 1/5 over Saratoga’s Oklahoma training track June 13. Christophe Clement saddles a firster with a big pedigree in Sumaya US Stable’s Golden Tapit (Tapit). Out of GSW Fun House (Prized), the $275,000 KEESEP purchase is a full-sibling to champion Untapable and a half to GISW millionaire and sire Paddy of Prado (El Prado {Ire}). This is also the family of Grade I-winning sires Tapizar (Tapit), Pyro (Pulpit), Cuvee (Carson City) and Olympio (Naskra). TJCIS PPs The post June 20 Insights: Million-Dollar Quality Road Debuts at Belmont appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Becoming as rare a piece of work as the brand of instrument after which he is named, Stradivarius (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) returns to Royal Ascot on Thursday looking to join a band of staying nobles whose names have been written more than once on the G1 Gold Cup honour roll. In contrast to the fast conditions he encountered 12 months ago when outgaming Vazirabad (Fr) (Menduro {Ger}), Bjorn Nielsen’s millionaire faces a potential slog this time with rain continuing to dog Berkshire’s theatre of dreams. Like all the greats of this cherished division, the beloved chestnut is also met by a new cast a year on as would-be marathon stars appear from all angles. They include the remorseless Dee Ex Bee (GB) (Farhh {GB}), with his humourless galloping style certain to fit Thursday’s edition and the swashbuckling class act from the G1 Melbourne Cup in Cross Counter (GB) (Teofilo {Ire}), who would have been best served had the rain stayed away. Yeats (Ire) had similar examinations after he first caught Ascot unawares in 2006, with allcomers attempting to subsequently dethrone him to no avail. Stradivarius is no Yeats, with his style tailored more to a swift closing effort than the grinding nature of the Ballydoyle giant’s method, but a win in this particularly strong edition in these gruelling conditions would move him ever closer to his own portion of immortality. There was nothing in his return winning performance in the May 17 G2 Yorkshire Cup to suggest he had lost either enthusiasm or dexterity following his winter break and the march is on for more “Cup” glory after his high-achieving manoeuvres from here to Goodwood to York and back here again last season. Soft-ground Gold Cups are not uncommon, with the 2016 renewal won by Order of St George (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and the 2012 version taken by Colour Vision (Fr) (Rainbow Quest) carried out on an easy surface, but Wednesday’s deterioration in conditions has moved this one into another dimension. There was always going to be a time when Stradivarius would have to win ugly and this is it. He did manage to capture the G2 QIPCO British Champions Long Distance Cup in October on soft, but that was against lesser opposition and trainer John Gosden is well aware that his flagbearer will have to raise his game. “If it rains a lot he is up against it,” the master of Clarehaven warned. “He has that great weapon for a two-and-a-half miler in that he has a phenomenal turn of foot. If it goes soft, it blunts his turn of foot and leaves him vulnerable. It won’t be his scene if it turns into a slog on softer ground, because he has got a lot of class and that will favour the boys who have got to grind it out. I don’t see the standard being any higher–he was just very effective on good-to-firm ground last year. He is not a big horse, but he has the ability in the last two furlongs to turn it on.” Gosden is well aware of the burden connections carry into each task that Stradivarius undertakes now that he is such a high-profile campaigner. “To a degree, I share the view he is becoming a people’s favourite,” he added. “He is in the Cup races and people enjoy them and he was the champion stayer last year.” Frankie Dettori will feel the pressure most, but having ridden over 60 winners here helps. “He has become the people’s favourite horse,” he said. “The great thing about him is that he wears his heart on the sleeve and he never goes down without a fight and people appreciate that.” Mark Johnston knows how epic the Gold Cup is, having conquered the great prize with Royal Rebel (GB) (Robellino) twice in 2001 and 2002 and with Double Trigger (Ire) (Ela-Mana-Mou {Ire}) in 1995, and will not have been disheartened by the rain for Dee Ex Bee. “We are relishing the extra half mile, not concerned about it,” he said of Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum’s 4-year-old who had the class to be second in the G1 Epsom Derby. “Double Trigger was very much the classical stayer–he was 16.2 and tall and lean. Dee Ex Bee is far thicker-set and heavier, but on form and pedigree he’s got all the credentials. He’s been what we have been dreaming of for many years and he’s all we imagined he would be.” One of the those that Dee Ex Bee fell foul of in 2018 was Cross Counter, who broke Goodwood’s mile-and-a-half track record when taking his measure in the G3 Gordon S. in August before his Flemington heroics. Like Blue Point (Ire) (Shamardal), he comes here on the back of a break since winning on World Cup night, but on the form of his success in the two-mile G2 Dubai Gold Cup he has to improve to lay a glove on Stradivarius. “He’s a horse that has done well from three to four and I don’t think he’s plateaued out,” Charlie Appleby said. “What he’s done over two miles, you cannot fault him. Stepping up in trip again, you don’t know, but if he improves for it then it opens up even more possibilities.” Supporting the centrepiece are a clutch of quality encounters kicked off by the G2 Norfolk S. in which King Power Racing’s acquisition Sunday Sovereign (GB) (Equiano {Fr}) occupies favouritism and has a rock-solid feel. Having beaten Tuesday’s G2 Coventry S. winner Arizona (Ire) (No Nay Never) by three lengths over six furlongs at The Curragh May 6, Paddy Twomey’s exciting prospect registered a seven-length rout of his rivals in a Tipperary conditions race over this trip on soft ground June 4. American Pharoah has his first Royal Ascot runner in the Apr. 19 Aqueduct maiden special weight scorer Maven for Richard Ravin and Wesley Ward while Ryan Moore has opted to ride the May 22 Cork maiden winner Mount Fuji (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) from Aidan O’Brien’s duo. A fascinating G2 Ribblesdale S. sees Anthony Oppenheimer represented by two homebreds taking on the May 31 G1 Epsom Oaks third Fleeting (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}). The William Haggas-trained Frankellina (GB) (Frankel {GB}), who was runner-up in the May 15 G3 Musidora S. and sixth in the Oaks, is met by ‘TDN Rising Star’ Star Catcher (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) who was third behind the re-opposing Queen Power (Ire) (Shamardal) in the Listed Haras de Bouquetot Fillies’ Trial S. at Newbury May 18. “I honestly don’t favour one over the other and that is why we are running them both,” their owner-breeder commented. “When Star Catcher was beaten at Newbury, Frankie Dettori came back and apologised because he felt he should have won; he said he should have made more use of her because she was running on again at the line, she finished full of running. She should be really suited by stepping up in trip–that is what we are hoping. Frankellina had the two quick runs in the Musidora and the Oaks, but she did a really nice piece of work the other day which is why we are keen to run her. I’d absolutely think Ascot should suit her more than Epsom, because she is a big filly.” Royal Ascot always offers connections of runners in the Epsom Classics a temptation to come back to the races quickly, but that is not the case in the G3 Hampton Court S. where all 15 avoided the Derby. Juddmonte’s TDN Rising Stars Headman (GB) and Sangarius (GB) are both by Kingman (GB) and enter the mix with an abundance of promise. The former, who represents Roger Charlton’s stable, took the London Gold Cup H. under a stopping weight at Newbury last time May 18, while Sir Michael Stoute’s Listed Flying Scotsman S. winner Sangarius was third under a penalty behind the subsequent G1 St James’s Palace S. runner-up King of Comedy (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) in Sandown’s Listed Heron S. May 23. Khalid Abdullah’s racing manager Teddy Grimthorpe said of the latter, “His work has been solid. Sir Michael is bringing him in great shape. We have always had it on our mind that he might be a mile-and-a-quarter horse, even from when he was a 2-year-old, so this is an interesting opportunity for him.” Of Headman, who bids to emulate his half-brother Time Test (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) who took this off a win in the London Gold Cup in 2015, he added, “Everything he has done since that victory has pleased Roger. This was always the race in mind we had for Headman after Newbury. You never quite know how much is between them. We’ve put the pink cap on Sangarius mainly because he has listed form, which Headman hasn’t. But Headman is also by Kingman, which is important to us.” Also by Kingman is King Power Racing’s Fox Chairman (Ire), who was an eyecatcher when third behind the St James’s Palace S. hero Circus Maximus (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the Listed Dee S. at Chester last time May 9. 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Still a maiden entering Royal Ascot’s Listed Windsor Castle S. on Wednesday, Southern Hills (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) had run to a high standard when second to the G2 Norfolk S. contender Air Force Jet (GB) (Charm Spirit {Ire}) in a five-furlong maiden at Navan June 1. Drawn towards the stand’s side which proved best again, the 7-1 shot showed speed to stay near the frenetic pace and when sent to the front with 1 1/2 furlongs remaining stayed on to account for Platinum Star (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) by 3/4 of a length. In doing so, he was providing Gleneagles with a first black-type winner. SOUTHERN HILLS (IRE), c, 2, Gleneagles (Ire)–Remember You (Ire), by Invincible Spirit (Ire). O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O’Brien; J-Ryan Moore. £51,039. Lifetime Record: 3-1-1-0, £55,127. *1st stakes winner for freshman sire (by Galileo {Ire}). The post First Black-Type Winner For Gleneagles As Southern Hills Takes the Windsor Castle appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article