Across the pond

[Starine]

Campanelle? Anybody?

I'm excited to see Ward with a prospect for the middle distances. Usually he is loaded for bear with sprinters and I'd love to see him with a topflight entrant in some of the mile races.

[tachyon]

Campanelle? Anybody?

I'm excited to see Ward with a prospect for the middle distances. Usually he is loaded for bear with sprinters and I'd love to see him with a topflight entrant in some of the mile races.

Campanelle was a very impressive winner at Deauville!
Wesley Ward really looks like a magic trainer who can glide across the pond.
I wish Japan had such an innovative trainer like him to see more Japanese horses running overseas.

[Flanders]

Behemoth won the Memsie(AUS-1). The syndicates racing manager recorded himself watching the race and its pure joy.
https://twitter.com/7horseracing/status ... 5669676032

[HB1994]

Enable is skipping the Yorkshire Oaks (G1) and will run instead in the September S (G3) at Kempton on the Polytrack as her final Arc prep on 5 September. She used the same race as her prep in 2018, defeating Crystal Ocean.

https://www.racingpost.com/news/latest/ ... run/446036

Enable was the easiest of winners at Kempton today. Perfect prep.

[TurfLover]

Enable is skipping the Yorkshire Oaks (G1) and will run instead in the September S (G3) at Kempton on the Polytrack as her final Arc prep on 5 September. She used the same race as her prep in 2018, defeating Crystal Ocean.

https://www.racingpost.com/news/latest/ ... run/446036

Enable was the easiest of winners at Kempton today. Perfect prep.

Just so beautiful. She made everyone gasp with her jump at the start but I don’t think I was the only one near tears at the end <3
Love is a great filly but she can have next year’s Arc if she lets Enable have this one!

[TurfLover]

And Dream of Dreams finally got a group one in the Haydock Sprint Cup. He’s a beautiful boy and that gelding op clearly made all the difference

[Northport]

Relative "outsider" (though still a very nice horse), Persian King, upsets the star studded G1 Prix de Moulin at Longchamp. Pinatubo took a while to get running but once he did the bird had already flown, though he closed nicely to finish 2nd. I'd say Siskin and Romanised were the big disappointments coming out of the race.

[tachyon]

Relative "outsider" (though still a very nice horse), Persian King, upsets the star studded G1 Prix de Moulin at Longchamp. Pinatubo took a while to get running but once he did the bird had already flown, though he closed nicely to finish 2nd. I'd say Siskin and Romanised were the big disappointments coming out of the race.

That was a fantastic field filled with six MG1SWs!
As a Kingman fan, I was very glad to see Persian King win.
Now .... how good is Palace Pier?
I guess that the John Gosden-trained 3yo colt is still unbeatable.

[Mylute]

So after the first day (?) of the St. Leger festival Doncaster has been ordered to tell attendees to pack it up and go home.

This is like what, the second or third time this has happened in racing? Tracks get told they can open to the public under guidelines then during the event they get hit with the "oh wait no"?

[HB1994]

Magical defeated Ghaiyyath in the Irish Champion S (G1).

Champers Elysees won the Matron S (G1). It was Johnny Murtagh’s first G1 win as a trainer. Heavy favorite Fancy Blue was third.

Galileo Chrome won the St. Leger (G1).

[barbaro111]

Magical narrowly defeated Ghaiyyath in the Irish Champion S (G1).

Champers Elysees won the Matron S (G1). Heavy favorite Fancy Blue was third.

Galileo Chrome won the St. Leger (G1).

The St. Leger was particularly exciting!!!!! Ghaiyyath is rated #1 in the world by Longines!!!

[Diver52]

So after the first day (?) of the St. Leger festival Doncaster has been ordered to tell attendees to pack it up and go home.

This is like what, the second or third time this has happened in racing? Tracks get told they can open to the public under guidelines then during the event they get hit with the "oh wait no"?

I understand from my British friends (and from forums on Tripadvisor) that the U.K. response to the coronavirus has been as inept and inconsistent as ours.

[Ziggypop]

Magical narrowly defeated Ghaiyyath in the Irish Champion S (G1). And not a word about her winning on PR or Bloodhorse, that I could find.

Champers Elysees won the Matron S (G1). Heavy favorite Fancy Blue was third.

Galileo Chrome won the St. Leger (G1).

The St. Leger was particularly exciting!!!!! Ghaiyyath is rated #1 in the world by Longines!!!

[Northport]

So after the first day (?) of the St. Leger festival Doncaster has been ordered to tell attendees to pack it up and go home.

This is like what, the second or third time this has happened in racing? Tracks get told they can open to the public under guidelines then during the event they get hit with the "oh wait no"?

I understand from my British friends (and from forums on Tripadvisor) that the U.K. response to the coronavirus has been as inept and inconsistent as ours.

In the case of Doncaster, the British Horseracing Authority and Doncaster Racecourse was working with the British Federal government to get spectators approved for the festival, bypassing the local Doncaster government. At the end of the day, it was the municipal Doncaster government, specifically their local health minister, who pulled the plug, citing an uptick in local cases in the days leading up to the festival.

Re. Magical beating Ghaiyyath... loved that! Interesting to see Seamie Heffernan applying a bit of pressure with her throughout the race, instead of letting Ghaiyyath bowl along by himself, I wonder if that was just enough to take the edge off of Ghaiyyath. Magical is so tough and always shows up. Found is one of my faves since she always had her heart sleeve, and Magical’s a bit like that too, though she’s actually won more G1s.

I think the sheen has thoroughly won off of Japan. I know he was footsore after the King George and was barefoot for 10 days afterwards to help him recover... but where do they go now? Japanese interests bought him with the Arc in mind so is that still the target?

[Mylute]

Galileo Chrome Turns to Gold in St. Leger
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... n-st-leger

"Chrome Turns to Gold"

Now where have I heard that before?

[tachyon]

Magical defeated Ghaiyyath in the Irish Champion S (G1).

Magical's Irish Champion win was epic.
She is truly a great mare who also flatters Enable.

[HB1994]

It would be nice if Longchamp and the Curragh weren’t running these group races on top of each other.

[HB1994]

“Aga Khan-ish.” Too funny. I think the shirts are pretty cool, though.

https://racingts.com/collections/all

[Mylute]

Anthony Van Dyck defeated Stradivarius in the Group 2 Prix Foy at Longchamp.
https://www.racingpost.com/news/stradiv ... foy/450421

[BaroqueAgain1]

That's kind of shocking, isn't it?