Paul Teasdale

Owner Paul Teasdale of RP Racing has described Big Evs (Ire) as "a horse of a lifetime" as the Mick Appleby-trained colt prepares for his career swansong in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar on Saturday, November 2. Named after Paul Evans, a friend of Teasdale who died of lung cancer in 2022, Big Evs won four of his six starts in a memorable two-year-old campaign, including at Royal Ascot where he shed his maiden tag with victory in the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes. Group-race successes followed...

Goodwood, UK -- In a near-repeat performance of last year, a Mick Appleby-trained 'Big' horse by a first-season sire, running in the red and blue silks of Paul and Rachael Teasdale's RP Racing Ltd, scorched to success in the G3 Molecomb Stakes.  What came next for Big Evs (Ire) (Blue Point {Ire}) was several victories moving up through the grades and rounding off his juvenile season in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. It is a pretty safe bet that with each new victory came larger and larger offers...

ARCADIA, USA -- A clean sweep for Europe in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint. How about that to start the Breeders' Cup? And then for the closing act, a one-two for Aidan O'Brien in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf after the drama of the early-morning scratching of race favourite River Tiber (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}). For the curtain up, Big Evs (Ire) (Blue Point {Ire}), named to honour a fallen friend, paid the best possible tribute to the late Paul Evans in giving his British owners Paul and...