LUCYMAI returned to winning ways last night when bolting up at Chelmsford by four and a half lengths under stable apprentice Jack Duern at 8/1. The 4yo daughter of Multiplex was not well drawn (10 of 14) but Jack rousted Lucymai out of the stalls to get a “posi” on the rails and she led after… Read more »
FRANKIE DETTORI, MBE, three-times champion jockey, who went through the seven-race card on Champions’ Day at Ascot in 1996 and who has ridden over 500 Group winners is coming to town on Saturday 18 November. The 46-year-old Italian jockey will be at the Alban Arena in St Albans, Hertfordshire for a Q & A show with… Read more »
HARPER LODGE FARM has its first Frankel in training after the purchase of Lightening Fast at Tattersalls’ Horses In Training Sale last week. Frankel was not only an unbeaten Champion racehorse, winning all 14 starts, including 10 Group 1s, he has also enjoyed a fabulous start to his stallion career. Last year, he was the leading European first season… Read more »
SOLARIO RACING purchased a very exciting unraced 2yo grey colt by Aussie Rules at the Horses In Training Sale at Tattersalls this week and he is settling in well at Harper Lodge Farm. The large grey, named Don’t Look Down, which stands at 16:2hh was formerly owned by Mr J L C Pearce, a long-time… Read more »
LIBRISA BREEZE ran a personal best at Ascot on Champions Day and an inevitable rise in the handicap has led him to be rated 119, the highest ever rating for a Dean Ivory-trained horse. Most form students and pundits thought it would be around a half a stone increase and indeed it was exactly that with… Read more »
LIBRISA BREEZE created a little piece of history today as in winning the Champions Sprint at Ascot, he became our first Group One success and brought up another record season for Harper Lodge Farm. Billed as one of the races on Champions Day with another mouth-watering clash between Harry Angel and Caravaggio, not to mention the… Read more »
VILLETTE, who won on her debut at 20/1 earlier in the season on the all-weather at Kempton sprang another surprise yesterday when winning at Nottingham at 50/1 under Rob Hornby. Officially, the 3yo Sixties Icon filly dead-heated with Entangling, one of the joint-favourites but in a Stewards’ Enquiry, Villette was awarded the race outright and… Read more »
BLAZE OF HEARTS won his second race of the season this afternoon at Yarmouth, scene of his first victory, which brought up win number 30 for the stable. Running over a mile, a furlong short of his August success, he made all up the middle of the track and despite hanging left, he stayed on strongly… Read more »
HARLEQUIN STRIKER made all at Nottingham yesterday to record the stable’s second win in two days. Running off his lowest ever mark (72) and in first time cheek-pieces, he also had the services of Charles Bishop in the saddle. Formerly with Mick Channon, the 5yo son of Bahamian Bounty had won twice with Charles on… Read more »
WOTADOLL’S win at Brighton yesterday, her second of the year, took the stable past the £1/2 million mark for the season. The 3yo daughter of Harbour Watch, ridden by Robert Winston, was held up early on but came through with a powerful run inside the final furlong and won readily by four lengths from the… Read more »
