Across the pond

Starine · Wed Oct 18, 2023 7:40 pm

Wonder if Mostahdaf will scratch.

20hayes20 · Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:37 am

Mostahadaf has been declared to run on Saturday

Hayes

20hayes20 · Thu Oct 19, 2023 7:06 am

Inspiral will miss the clash with Paddington in the Queen Elizabeth 11 Stakes on Saturday due to the heavy rain forecast over the next few days

Hayes

HB1994 · Thu Oct 19, 2023 11:03 am

20hayes20 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 7:06 am Inspiral will miss the clash with Paddington in the Queen Elizabeth 11 Stakes on Saturday due to the heavy rain forecast over the next few days

Hayes

I’m afraid Tahiyra will scratch also.

Northport · Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:44 pm

20hayes20 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 7:06 am Inspiral will miss the clash with Paddington in the Queen Elizabeth 11 Stakes on Saturday due to the heavy rain forecast over the next few days

Hayes

Gosden told Nick Luck today that the likely next target for her is now the BC Filly and Mare Turf.

Don’t like to see “Champions” Day take the hits it does when the going almost always ends up soft or heavy, but it does end up with horses redirecting to the Breeder’s Cup now and then, so I can’t be too upset.

20hayes20 · Fri Oct 20, 2023 6:35 am

All races on the round course at Ascot tomorrow will be run on the inside track

Hayes

tachyon · Fri Oct 20, 2023 7:44 am

20hayes20 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:37 am Mostahadaf has been declared to run on Saturday

Hayes

That's wonderful news for the Champion Stakes!!

Moi I'll be cheering for the 3yo gelding Horizon Dore (Dabirsim/Hat Trick/Sunday Silence) of course!

HB1994 · Sat Oct 21, 2023 9:43 am

Longshot Poptronic made all the running and held on bravely to win the Champions Fillies & Mares S (G1) at Ascot over Bluestocking and Jackie Oh.

barbaro111 · Sat Oct 21, 2023 10:14 am

Beautiful win by Big Rock- he wired the field!!!!!!-- in the QE11

HB1994 · Sat Oct 21, 2023 10:50 am

Frankie and King of Steel win!

tachyon · Sat Oct 21, 2023 10:53 am

Frankie Dettori is truly the super star!

tachyon · Sat Oct 21, 2023 11:07 am

Hanako & Roger Varian look very happy, too!

BaroqueAgain1 · Sat Oct 21, 2023 2:10 pm

Did Mostahadaf run? I just got to see a replay and couldn't find him in the field.

Good win by King of Steel and Frankie, since big horses like him don't usually love heavy ground.

Le Beau Bai · Sat Oct 21, 2023 2:23 pm

BaroqueAgain1 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 2:10 pm Did Mostahadaf run? I just got to see a replay and couldn't find him in the field.
Good win by King of Steel and Frankie, since big horses like him don't usually love heavy ground.

No he was scratched due to “unsuitable ground”.

Le Beau Bai · Sat Oct 21, 2023 2:28 pm

Away from Ascot, we’ve had a lot of race meetings cancelled due to flooding. Three people have now died as a result, places being affected from Scotland down to the South. Local to me there has been pleas from people for stables due to fields flooding.

Here is a photo from Worcester Racecourse in the Midlands, they’re waiting for the water to recede before they are able to assess the damage. There was due to be racing there on the 25th.

Big version of the photo in the link below.

https://x.com/worcesterraces/status/17 ... RGGQfkG60A

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BaroqueAgain1 · Sat Oct 21, 2023 2:29 pm

That is a lake, not a racecourse.

Fingers crossed that Mostahadaf's owners decide to bring him over to Santa Anita for the BC Turf.

Squeaky · Sat Oct 21, 2023 2:49 pm

King of Steel was raised by a nurse mare after his mother died - here he is as a foal and today wins the Champion Stakes at Ascot. Gotta love those draft mares.
https://x.com/brookesbldstck/status/171 ... 69070?s=46

BaroqueAgain1 · Sat Oct 21, 2023 3:33 pm

Looks like a Gypsy Horse/Gypsy Vanner mare. Very sweet horses.

Miss Woodford · Sat Oct 21, 2023 4:11 pm

Squeaky wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 2:49 pm King of Steel was raised by a nurse mare after his mother died - here he is as a foal and today wins the Champion Stakes at Ascot. Gotta love those draft mares.
https://x.com/brookesbldstck/status/171 ... 69070?s=46

He certainly takes after his foster mom in the size department

brunanas · Mon Oct 23, 2023 11:49 am

Le Beau Bai wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 7:39 am
Desert Crown will miss a potential clash with Paddington and Mostahdaf in the Juddmonte International at York on Wednesday after sustaining an injury on the gallops on Sunday morning.

The Sir Michael Stoute-trained four-year-old pulled up lame after morning exercise and has been taken to the Newmarket Equine Hospital.

Bruce Raymond, racing manager to owner Saeed Suhail, said on Sunday: "He's got quite a bad injury and I'm just heading to the equine hospital now. He won't be running at York."
https://www.racingpost.com/news/festiv ... j12B79ih8/

Derby hero Desert Crown put down after failing to recover from serious injury
https://www.racingpost.com/news/britain ... Ih7x9S4iI/

"As has been well recorded he fractured his off-fore leg for which he had to have 16 screws inserted. Everything seemed to be going well but he put so much pressure on his near fore when he stood on it that it was unsustainable. He was put down humanely at NEH where the surgeons have been outstanding."