Andrew Balding admits it would be a “big deal” if Chaldean could follow in the hoof prints of his mighty sire Frankel to give legendary jockey Frankie Dettori “the send-off he deserves” on his last ever QIPCO 2,000 Guineas ride at Newmarket on Saturday 6th May. The Juddmonte-owned colt will bid to double his tally […]
Richard Hannon insists it would be a ‘life goal’ for football super-agent Kia Joorabchian should he taste glory in the QIPCO 1,000 Guineas with Mammas Girl, who is reported to be looking a ‘million dollars’ ahead of her Classic assignment at Newmarket next Sunday (7th May). In what has already been a whirlwind start to
Newmarket Racecourse will host a one-off spectacular celebration on the first weekend in May, when the three-day QIPCO Guineas Festival will coincide with the Coronation of King Charles III. The celebrations are focused on being affordable in a year when many families’ finances are under pressure, and will include initiatives relating to the environment as
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Guineas Festival 2023: A forgotten racehorse trainer who was the first woman in the UK to be issued with a training licence in 1886 is to have a race at The QIPCO Guineas Festival renamed in her honour, The Jockey Club has announced. Ellen Chaloner has lain in an unmarked grave in Newmarket Cemetery since
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Guineas Festival 2022: It was a double Classic success for jockey James Doyle as Cachet (16/1) led throughout to win the 2022 Group One QIPCO 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket, on Sunday 1st May. For Doyle it was a second Classic success in 24 hours following the victory of Coroebus in the QIPCO 2000 Guineas. The 34
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Guineas Festival 2022: Coroebus (5/1) prevailed from his stable companion Native Trail (5/4 Favourite) in the first Classic of the season, the QIPCO 2,000 Guineas (1m) at Newmarket on Saturday 30th April. It was a fourth Classic winner for trainer Charlie Appleby following his triumphs in the Derby (2018 Masar, 2021 Adayar) and St Leger (2021
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Newmarket boasts two racecourses: The Rowley Mile and the July Course. The Rowley Mile is dubbed the ‘Course of Champions’ and the ‘most historic stretch of turf in the entire world of sport’. Here is where the British Champions Series begins starting with the prestigious Guineas Festival at the end of April/beginning of May. The July
The 2019 Champion Flat Jockey, Oisin Murphy, is the name on everyone’s lips after he secured his first victory in a Classic race on Saturday 6th June, winning the QIPCO 2,000 Guineas with Kameko. Kameko’s win set a new track record at 1min 34.72 secs, beating Mister Baileys’s time in 1994, with Aidan O’Brien-trained Wichita
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Saturday 6th June – 3:35pm – Newmarket – 1m (Row) QIPCO 2,000 Guineas Stakes (Group 1) (British Champions Series) (Colts & Fillies) (Class 1) (3yo) The 2,000 Guineas Stakes was first run in 1809. The race was established by the Jockey Club under Sir Charles Bunbury who had also been responsible for co-founding The Derby
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Roger Charlton’s unbeaten filly Quadrilateral heads up a field of 15 challengers for the fillies’ Classic, the QIPCO 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket on Sunday 7th June. The Frankel filly, who will be equipped with a first-time tongue strap, won each of her three races last year, signing off with a tenacious success in the Group 1 bet365 Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket
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