Kalpana

On a day where Juddmonte announced its European fees, plans were also released for some of the outfit's top breeding prospects, including the brilliant Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe scorer Bluestocking (GB) (Camelot {GB}), who has been retired to the paddocks.  Bluestocking never finished out of the first four in her 13 career starts and won three Group 1 races in 2024, culminating with that memorable triumph in Paris. Meanwhile, emerging force Kalpana (GB) (Study Of Man {Ire}), winner of the G1 Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at...

It's been tricky to focus on the racing of late with all the theatrics at Tattersalls, so let's call this fourteen days and attempt a catch-up in the brief period between the sales starting up again at Arqana on Tuesday. The extraordinary prices of Books 1 and 2 at the October Yearling Sale tell only half the story, and we all know that in any sales season there are tales of the haves and the have-nots. Perhaps the most interesting element of the top end is what feels like a...

It's been a while, hasn't it? We can only apologise for the onslaught of the sales and some extra international travel pushing the Seven Days beat on to the back-burner, but we're home now, almost jetlag-free, and ready for this week's round-up. Quite a lot of Sunday mornings are spent trudging along the Devil's Dyke which separates Newmarket's Rowley Mile from the July Course. The dogs love it, but this walker felt a little wearier this past weekend at the thought that we've now switched back to the Rowley Mile...

A person whose job it is to promote horse racing was, rather disappointingly, being sniffy about the Craven meeting on social media last week. I understand that some people don't like racing at the Rowley Mile and, yes, last Tuesday in particular was a little challenging on the weather front. But if you're a Flat racing person, and particularly one who is being paid to tell other people that they should come racing, then you really should appreciate all that is wonderful about these weeks of Classic trials across Europe....