Dame Malliot

Ed Vaughan confirmed via Twitter on Saturday that he will continue his training career in the U.S. from a base at Keeneland in Kentucky. Vaughan announced in July that he was winding down his Newmarket stable of around 25 horses, citing concerns about the financial viability of training in the UK. "As everyone is aware, with the reductions in prize-money and the cost of running a business being so high, the economics of training in Britain are not good," Vaughan said at the time. "I'm taking this decision now because...

Ed Vaughan, who last week sent out the Anthony Oppenheimer homebred Dame Malliot (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}) to win the Group 2 Princess of Wales's S. at his home track of Newmarket, has announced that he will relinquish his training licence at the end of the 2020 season. The Irish-born trainer said, "I haven't just woken up and decided to do this. It's been on my mind for a while and now seems the right time to finish up training here in the UK. As everyone is aware, with the reductions in prize-money...

A sea of blue dominated winner's enclosures in Britain and France this week, largely owing to the successful season currently being enjoyed by Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin operation and Sheikh Hamdan's Shadwell team. The brothers occupy the top two slots in the owners' table in Britain, and Godolphin is also currently the leading owner in France. While Sheikh Mohammed has a significant number of horses in Chantilly with Andre Fabre, who oversaw the successful return of France's champion 2-year-old of last year, Earthlight (Ire) (Shamardal), in the Listed Prix Kistena, it...

Few senior jockeys in the weighing room would have dared to make the move that Hollie Doyle did on Dame Malliot (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}) after just five furlongs in Thursday's G2 Princess of Wales's Tattersalls S., but the burgeoning talent knew best and her enterprise paid off handsomely. Taken out of Saturday's G2 Lancashire Oaks due to soft ground, last year's G2 Prix de Pomone winner was faced with that scenario here as Newmarket's July Festival opener fell under grey skies and rain. Too free for the first half...