Marie's Rock

Grade 1-winning mares Marie's Rock (Ire) (Milan {GB}) and Brandy Love (Ire) (Jet Away {GB}) will be offered under the hammer at the Goffs December National Hunt Sale. Goffs will publish the December National Hunt catalogue next Wednesday, featuring a stellar collection of foals and breeding stock.  The sale will take place from Monday 9 December to Wednesday 11 December. The breeding stock, which will be offered at the conclusion of the sale, has over 60 catalogued, 20 of which are black type performers themselves. Goffs boss Henry Beeby commented,...

Venturing fearlessly into jumps territory this week, this correspondent would never be so bold as to offer tips or predictions for the Cheltenham Festival. There is only one safe bet to be had, and that is that Keeneland's indefatigable European representative Ed Prosser will be up with the larks to cook the finest Full English for his housemates, and at some stage over the next four days will serenade us with his inimitable version of Rhinestone Cowboy. The Prosser baritone is certainly much easier on the ears than the newly...

CHELTENHAM, UK--There are horses, and then there's Honeysuckle (GB). Thought it may seem like sacrilege to compare the superstar hurdler to the greatest racehorse of the modern era, there has been no better winning sequence on the turf since Frankel (GB) stepped off it to the breeding shed a decade ago, and Honeysuckle isn't stopping yet. The daughter of Sulamani (Ire) is now a dual Champion Hurdle winner, a treble Irish Champion Hurdle winner, unbeaten in 15 starts under rules, plus her debut triumph in a point-to-point at Dromahane at...