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• Aidan O’Brien’s High Definition fades from Derby view after poor blood test

  06-05-2021 20:25 via theguardian.com
  
  High Definition slips in betting with Mohaafeth new favouriteJapan’s Chester Group Three win a rare ray of light for O’BrienJapan, twice a winner at Group One level, gave Aidan O’Brien his first winner of the 2021 May Festival in the Group Three Ormonde Stakes here on Thursday but the success did not dispel concerns about the overall form of some of O’Brien’s stable, with a cloud still hanging over High Definition, the Derby favourite, after a poor blood test ruled
  
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• Haatem dominates Newmarket trial but 2,000 Guineas clues located off the track

  18-04-2024 19:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Richard Hannon’s horse romps home yet trainer remains coyStablemate Rosallion labelled ‘a horse with an awful lot of speed’There was a time in the not-so-distant past when a three-and-a-half length success in the Craven Stakes over the same course and distance as the 2,000 Guineas in 16 days’ time would have fast-tracked the winner to the top of the Classic betting. Haatem, by contrast, can be backed at 20-1 for the Guineas on 4 May, despite powering well clear of his fie
  
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• Michael Owen on the scoresheet with It Ain’t Two

  17-04-2024 19:18 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Michael Owen is dreaming of bigger days having seen his homebred It Ain’t Two get on the scoresheet in the bet365 EBF Maiden Fillies’ Stakes at Newmarket. Trained by Hugo Palmer, her half-brother Balon D’Or hit the target at the first attempt last season, but odds of 18-1 perhaps told the true tale of expectation […]
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• Skelton adds Cheltenham winner to championship prize-money haul

  17-04-2024 19:08 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Dan Skelton edged further ahead of Paul Nicholls in pursuit of Willie Mullins, as the battle for the jump trainers’ championship continues to look like it will go down to the final day of the season. Skelton picked up a 113th victory of the season, with Doyen Quest winning the Kingston Stud Handicap Hurdle at […]
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• Appleby talks up Godolphin hopes after narrow Dance Sequence defeat

  17-04-2024 18:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Trainer optimistic about improved crop of three-year-olds Nell Gwyn Stakes runner-up still on course for 1,000 Guineas He had just seen his filly Dance Sequence, the third-favourite for the 1,000 Guineas, beaten in her Classic trial by the 18-1 outsider Pretty Crystal, but Charlie Appleby was still in a highly positive frame of mind after the Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket on Wednesday, about Dance Sequence and life in general.The 2023 campaign was, by any measure, a disappointing one for Appleby
  
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• Imperial rule put Brennan at the top of his sport

  17-04-2024 18:16 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  The Cheltenham Gold Cup is the pinnacle of National Hunt racing, but it is perhaps unfair to let two Fridays in March, six years apart, define the career of Paddy Brennan. Brennan hit the ultimate height in 2010 when Imperial Commander took advantage of the fall of Kauto Star to storm up the Cheltenham hill […]
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• Brennan bows out in style with Cheltenham success

  17-04-2024 18:02 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Paddy Brennan announced his immediate retirement from the saddle after steering Manothepeople to victory in the penultimate race at Cheltenham on Wednesday. The 43-year-old has enjoyed a hugely successful career, with his victory aboard Imperial Commander in an epic renewal of the Cheltenham Gold Cup being the obvious highlight. Success in the 2007 World Hurdle […]
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• Racing Insights, Thursday 18/04/24

  17-04-2024 18:00 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Did you know that the Instant Expert tab is by far the most popular tab on the geegeez racecards? That's because it has the ability to condense the entire form profile of every runner in the race into a single, easily digestible, view. The report covers the form in terms of wins (or places), runs, […]
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• Appleby building up transatlantic satellite squad

  17-04-2024 17:45 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Charlie Appleby expects to have around 12 horses based in America throughout the summer, with Sheema Classic winner Rebel’s Romance among them. Appleby, who has enjoyed great success in recent years with his forays to North America, is making a more permanent base for his team by setting up a satellite yard. Along with Rebel’s […]
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• Native Approach primed for big Craven test

  17-04-2024 17:27 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Native Approach could strengthen Charlie Appleby’s Classic hand by providing the trainer with a fourth victory in the last six runnings of the bet365 Craven Stakes at Newmarket. Subsequent Derby hero Masar was the Moulton Paddocks handler’s first winner of this recognised 2000 Guineas trial in 2018, while Master Of The Seas and Native Trail […]
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• Galopin Des Champs heading Punchestown ‘A-team’ for Mullins

  17-04-2024 17:15 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Galopin Des Champs will try to right his only ‘wrong’ of last year when he lines up in the Ladbrokes Punchestown Gold Cup later this month. The dual Cheltenham Gold Cup winner was sent off the 4-11 favourite to complete a spring festival double in the three-mile Grade One 12 months ago, but after mastering […]
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• Pretty Crystal denies Dance Sequence in Nell Gwyn

  17-04-2024 16:58 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Pretty Crystal held off the late surge of Dance Sequence in the Lanwades Stud Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket. Viewed as the first 1000 Guineas trial of the spring, Charlie Appleby’s previously unbeaten Dance Sequence was 10-11 favourite to enhance her Classic claims. William Buick was briefly short of room on the Godolphin filly and […]
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• El Fabiolo set for Sandown as Mullins chases title glory

  17-04-2024 16:38 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  El Fabiolo will bid to aid Willie Mullins’ quest to be crowned Britain’s champion jumps trainer by contesting the bet365 Celebration Chase on the final day of the season at Sandown. With the Randox Grand National success of I Am Maximus at Aintree seeing Mullins hit the front in the title race, the Closutton is […]
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• McConnell star Seddon set for return at Punchestown Festival

  16-04-2024 11:45 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  John McConnell’s popular and versatile performer Seddon is set to return to action at the Punchestown Festival. The 11-year-old provided connections with an unforgettable day at the races when landing the Magners Plate Handicap Chase at the Cheltenham Festival last year. He then reverted to hurdles for the Fitzwilliam Sports Handicap Hurdle at Punchestown’s flagship […]
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• Walsh remembers the magic of O’Brien, as Mullins goes for British crown

  16-04-2024 10:50 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Ted Walsh believes even if Willie Mullins does not manage to emulate Vincent O’Brien by being crowned champion trainer in the UK when based in Ireland, both have played their part in changing the face of National Hunt racing. Given the feats will be over 70 years apart – O’Brien was champion trainer for successive […]
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• Racing Bulletin for 16/04/2024

  16-04-2024 08:57 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Latest News and Features Racing Insights, Tuesday 16/04/24 I Am Maximus booked for hero’s return on Tuesday evening Mr Incredible set to be part of powerful Ayr raid for title-chasing Mullins Gilligan so proud of another fine effort from Buddy One 2024 Nell Gwyn Stakes Trends 2024 Earl Of Sefton Stakes Trends Kieswetter savouring Temps […]
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• Racing Insights, Tuesday 16/04/24

  15-04-2024 19:30 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Tuesday's free offering from the GOLD service is the The Shortlist feature, a simple – and usually brief – report highlighting those horses with a largely ‘green’ profile in the Instant Expert Report each day. It covers win or place stats, and can be viewed for both today’s and tomorrow’s racing. GREENis good (33% or […]
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• I Am Maximus booked for hero’s return on Tuesday evening

  15-04-2024 19:07 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Leighlinbridge will welcome the return of yet another Willie Mullins champion on Tuesday evening, with Randox Grand National hero I Am Maximus set to enjoy his homecoming parade. It is little over a month since Galopin Des Champs received the acclaim of the locals after successfully defending his crown in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, a […]
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• Mr Incredible set to be part of powerful Ayr raid for title-chasing Mullins

  15-04-2024 17:40 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Having made it no further than The Chair in the Randox Grand National at Aintree on Saturday, Mr Incredible is set to make a swift reappearance as part of Willie Mullins’ assault on this weekend’s Coral Scottish Grand National meeting at Ayr. The victory of I Am Maximus in the world’s most famous steeplechase put […]
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• Gilligan so proud of another fine effort from Buddy One

  15-04-2024 17:16 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Paul Gilligan has an eye on the Punchestown Festival after another huge run from stable star Buddy One in the JRL Group Liverpool Hurdle. The seven-year-old did connections proud when ridden by the trainer’s son, Jack, to finish fourth at 40-1 in the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. From there he took […]
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• 2024 Nell Gwyn Stakes Trends

  15-04-2024 16:54 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  The Lanwades Stud Nell Gwyn Stakes is run on Newmarket’s Rowley Mile course in April over a distance of 7f. The Group 3 contest is for 3 year-old fillies only and was first run in 1961 – the race is also often seen as a trial race for the 1,000 Guineas run the following month […]
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• 2024 Earl Of Sefton Stakes Trends

  15-04-2024 16:09 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  The bet365 Earl Of Sefton Stakes is the feature contest on the opening day of the Newmarket Craven Meeting and is a Group Three race run over 1m1f on Wednesday 17th April 2024. Here at GeeGeez, we look back at recent winners and gives you the key stats ahead of the 2024 renewal as the […]
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• Kieswetter savouring Temps triumph from afar

  15-04-2024 15:45 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Craig Kieswetter may have been watching at home in Cape Town, but he still roared home Il Etait Temps as he landed his second Grade One of the season at Aintree. The former England international cricketer is now a key part of his family’s racing operations and under their Barnane-stud banner, owns the pint-sized Willie […]
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• This year’s Grand National looked and felt like a better race, in every way | Greg Wood

  15-04-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The race’s ability to adapt to changing attitudes over the course of nearly 200 years has been one of the secrets of its survivalFor the first time in a while – since April 2018, in fact – Grand National day at Aintree on Saturday was, for this spectator at least, an almost entirely positive experience. It was a race with all the drama and spectacle that got many of us hooked on racing in the first place, but no fallers, no serious injuries and a winner, I Am Maximus, whose bre
  
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• Owning a racehorse is the latest way for rich millennials to brag

  14-04-2024 17:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Auctioneer targets social media-obsessed youngsters with prospect of entering the parade ring at Royal AscotHenry Beeby has an enticing pitch for young super-rich tiktokkers and instagrammers. “Come to Kensington Gardens on the Monday, buy a racehorse and by the Tuesday you will be in the parade ring at one of the world’s most famous racecourses [Royal Ascot] alongside members of the British royal family and other royal families, with your own racehorse in your colours.”Beeby,
  
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• Straight to the 2000 Guineas for Rosallion, says Hannon

  14-04-2024 13:26 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Richard Hannon’s Group One winner Rosallion will head straight for the Qipco 2000 Guineas. Hannon and owner Sheikh Mohammed Obaid had been weighing up whether to take in a trial en route to the Newmarket Classic, for which the Blue Point colt is a best-riced 6-1 second-favourite behind City Of Troy. However, they have decided […]
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• Rachael Blackmore Serial Winners Fund hits £250,000

  14-04-2024 12:17 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Betfair’s ‘Rachael Blackmore Serial Winners Fund’ wrapped up having raised £250,000 for the Injured Jockeys Fund and the Irish Injured Jockeys. The initiative began on Betfair Chase day at Haydock last November, when the bookmaker pledged to add £5,000 to the pot every time Blackmore rode a winner between that meeting and the Grand National […]
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• Racing Bulletin for 14/04/2024

  14-04-2024 08:57 via geegeez.co.uk
  
  Latest News and Features National glory has no chance of getting old for McManus ‘Game on’ – Mullins has sights firmly set on British trainers’ title ‘The National exactly as we want it’ – Jockey Club chief hails Aintree changes Maximus returns for happy Grand National punters So close, but Elliott has to give best […]
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• Vintage Grand National enough to make Willie Mullins lose his voice

  13-04-2024 21:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Trainer adds I Am Maximus’s success at Aintree to his Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle wins at Cheltenham this seasonlA gentlemanly nod of the head. An appreciative tip of the cap. That is the way Willie Mullins likes to celebrate his major triumphs. Such is his preternatural calmness, you half‑suspect the arrival of the Four Horseman of Apocalypse would be greeted with a simple shrug of the shoulders. Yet on a raucous afternoon, the 67-year‑old Irishman was bellowing every bit as
  
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• Vintage Grand National enough to make Willie Mullins lose his cool | Sean Ingle

  13-04-2024 21:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Trainer adds I Am Maximus’s success at Aintree to his Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle wins at Cheltenham this seasonA gentlemanly nod of the head. An appreciative tip of the cap. That is the way Willie Mullins likes to celebrate his major triumphs. Such is his preternatural calmness, you half‑suspect the arrival of the Four Horseman of Apocalypse would be greeted with a simple shrug of the shoulders. Yet on a raucous afternoon, the 67-year‑old Irishman was bellowing every bit as l
  
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