Across the pond

[ThreeMustangs]

I didn’t have him—like everybody else.

300-1 winner at Leopardstown becomes biggest-price scorer in history

“He Knows No Fear became the biggest-price winner since records began when scoring at 300-1 for trainer-owner Luke Comer and jockey Chris Hayes in the mile maiden at Leopardstown on Thursday afternoon“

https://www.racingpost.com/news/latest/ ... ory/446446

[Northport]

300-1 winner at Leopardstown today as He Knows No Fear just gets up on the line. Largest priced winner in Irish racing history.

How does a horse get odds of 300-1? Probably due to his owner/trainer, billionaire developer Luke Comer. This is his first win from 295 starters since 2011. I’ll give him credit for... persistence, but he’s also got a reputation for buying Ballydoyle castoffs at horses-in-training sales and running them only in listed/group company, where they’re almost guaranteed to run last. Poor Zabriskie broke down last year after a string of poor performances in races he had no business running in.

https://www.facebook.com/racingtv/posts ... 0682926736

https://www.racingpost.com/profile/trai ... omer/stats

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[Mylute]

He has a pretty cool name!

[tachyon]

Queen is back!!
Third King George win was unprecedented and she did it easily.
It's also amazing that she won G1 races in four straight years.
(How many horses achieved that feat in the past?)

That's a great question! The two Americans who immediately come to mind are Wise Dan and Lady Eli, but certainly Enable is running against the best competition there is. Lovely to see her win today, even if the field was a bit disappointing.

Beholder won G1 races every year she ran, which was five.

Triptych(USA)(1982M) won G1 races in five straight years (from 1984 to 1988), too.

[CorridorZ75]

300-1 winner at Leopardstown today as He Knows No Fear just gets up on the line. Largest priced winner in Irish racing history.

How does a horse get odds of 300-1? Probably due to his owner/trainer, billionaire developer Luke Comer. This is his first win from 295 starters since 2011. I’ll give him credit for... persistence, but he’s also got a reputation for buying Ballydoyle castoffs at horses-in-training sales and running them only in listed/group company, where they’re almost guaranteed to run last. Poor Zabriskie broke down last year after a string of poor performances in races he had no business running in.

https://www.facebook.com/racingtv/posts ... 0682926736

https://www.racingpost.com/profile/trai ... omer/stats

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As you were saying, this is not something to celebrate. This is proof positive of why people should have to have gone through and passed training requirements in order to get a license, as they do in most Asian jurisdictions. It is simply unfair for horses to be put with "trainers" who have no business being trainers.

[ThreeMustangs]

Really nice field in the Prix Jacques le Marois (G1) tomorrow at Deauville includes G1 winners Palace Pier, Alpine Star, Circus Maximus, Persian King, and Romanised.

[ThreeMustangs]

Really nice field in the Prix Jacques le Marois (G1) tomorrow at Deauville includes G1 winners Palace Pier, Alpine Star, Circus Maximus, Persian King, and Romanised.

Palace Pier wins over Alpine Star to remain undefeated. Circus Maximus was third.

[WaquoitNBroadBrush]

300-1 winner at Leopardstown today as He Knows No Fear just gets up on the line. Largest priced winner in Irish racing history.

How does a horse get odds of 300-1? Probably due to his owner/trainer, billionaire developer Luke Comer. This is his first win from 295 starters since 2011. I’ll give him credit for... persistence, but he’s also got a reputation for buying Ballydoyle castoffs at horses-in-training sales and running them only in listed/group company, where they’re almost guaranteed to run last. Poor Zabriskie broke down last year after a string of poor performances in races he had no business running in.

https://www.facebook.com/racingtv/posts ... 0682926736

https://www.racingpost.com/profile/trai ... omer/stats

Whoops! I was typing as Three Mustangs posted

As you were saying, this is not something to celebrate. This is proof positive of why people should have to have gone through and passed training requirements in order to get a license, as they do in most Asian jurisdictions. It is simply unfair for horses to be put with "trainers" who have no business being trainers.

Reminds me of Naseem Rauf, a wealthy Kentucky neurosurgeon who bred, trained and raced his own homebreds as a hobby. Hardly any of them could run even a little bit, and to call their bloodlines obscure would be kind. He once entered one of his fillies in one of Kentucky Downs' big races, with predictable results. The only times he'd pick up a win were when he'd face reality and send a career maiden to Beulah or River Downs instead of Keeneland or Churchill -- and even in Ohio, he'd only run them in maiden specials.

[Squeaky]

Palace Pier won impressively at rainy Deuville with Frankie aboard- on your BC Mile?

[tachyon]

Yay for Palace Pier!!
And that was a wonderful weekend for his sire Kingman on both side of the pond.

[Northport]

300-1 winner at Leopardstown today as He Knows No Fear just gets up on the line. Largest priced winner in Irish racing history.

How does a horse get odds of 300-1? Probably due to his owner/trainer, billionaire developer Luke Comer. This is his first win from 295 starters since 2011. I’ll give him credit for... persistence, but he’s also got a reputation for buying Ballydoyle castoffs at horses-in-training sales and running them only in listed/group company, where they’re almost guaranteed to run last. Poor Zabriskie broke down last year after a string of poor performances in races he had no business running in.

https://www.facebook.com/racingtv/posts ... 0682926736

https://www.racingpost.com/profile/trai ... omer/stats

Whoops! I was typing as Three Mustangs posted

As you were saying, this is not something to celebrate. This is proof positive of why people should have to have gone through and passed training requirements in order to get a license, as they do in most Asian jurisdictions. It is simply unfair for horses to be put with "trainers" who have no business being trainers.

In case anyone was wondering what a more standard race looks like for the Luke Comer stable :

https://www.racingpost.com/results/178/ ... -14/763920

[Flanders]

Sir Dragonet (Camelot - Sparrow, by Oasis Dream), last seen finishing 2nd in the Tattersalls Gold Cup(G1), has been sold to continue his racing career in Australia. The Cox Plate is a potential target for the colt. His 2nd dam is GSW/G1p All Too Beautiful, a full sister to Galileo.

https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/s ... own-under/

[Northport]

Sir Dragonet (Camelot - Sparrow, by Oasis Dream), last seen finishing 2nd in the Tattersalls Gold Cup(G1), has been sold to continue his racing career in Australia. The Cox Plate is a potential target for the colt. His 2nd dam is GSW/G1p All Too Beautiful, a full sister to Galileo.

https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/s ... own-under/

On the At The Races podcast they said the rumoured sale price was 3,000,000 euros.

Although he couldn't seem to find the line first this year, I think his preferred distance is 12f, not the 10f that he's been racing at this year. Hopefully he'll get a couple wins down under.

[Northport]

Ghaiyyath wins the Juddmonte International, leading again from start to finish. He's some horse and looks a clear frontrunner for horse of the year at this point. I guess it's all systems go for the Arc?

[TurfLover]

Ghaiyyath wins the Juddmonte International, leading again from start to finish. He's some horse and looks a clear frontrunner for horse of the year at this point. I guess it's all systems go for the Arc?

Sooo impressive. Appleby said they might be keeping him at 1m2 so maybe British Champions Day?
Felt sorry for poor little Rose of Kildare, she’s such a tough thing - 17 starts and she’s only 3!
Pyledriver was also incredibly impressive in the Great Voltigeur, hopefully all systems go for the Leger.

[Starine]

Ghaiyyath is an absolute beast.

[TurfLover]

Battaash won the Nunthorpe with real battling spirit and gives Jim Crowley and Shadwell a four timer on the day!

[Squeaky]

Love won the Yorkshire Oaks - great name and a beautiful filly for Aiden O’Brien who calls her the best filly he has ever trained. Heading for an epic showdown with Enable in the Arc this fall.

[BaroqueAgain1]

Love could be a real threat to Enable, Strad. and other older runners. IIRC, 3yo fillies get a nice weight break in the Arc and, IMO, that has contributed to the impressive record the fillies have acquired in the French classic.

[Northport]

This is pretty awesome... couple fellas know the call from Chautauqua's win in the 2015 Manikato stakes off by heart

https://www.facebook.com/11992692137867 ... yfYSkBzkCs

Here's the replay of the actual race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVTbDa5unGQ

I think I may have the calls from the 2011 Sussex Stakes and 2009 Arc burned into my memory, but these guys are the real deal!