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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | David Milnes
A day after saddling Wimbledon Hawkeye to finish runner-up in the Craven, James Owen and the Gredleys went one better when Pellitory struck at 25-1 in the 7f conditions race for three-year-olds. Harry Davies gave Pellitory an accomplished ride to land a half-length victory that dented a few reputations, with 6-5 favourite Anno Domini in second and Treble Tee more than three lengths behind in fourth.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | David Milnes |Peter Scargill
Royal Ascot is the objective for Sajir after his victory in the Group 3 Blandford Bloodstock Abernant Stakes, provided trainer Andre Fabre isn’t swayed by the delights of Deauville instead. Carrying the colours of owner-breeder Prince Faisal, Sajir produced an impressive burst to get to the front in the 6f contest and had more than enough under Oisin Murphy to hold on from the late thrust of Grand Grey.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | David Milnes
Charlie Appleby is confident Desert Flower is the one to beat in next month's Betfred 1,000 Guineas after the unbeaten ante-post favourite flourished in a morning workout on the Rowley Mile on Wednesday. Appleby has never won the fillies' Classic but shared his belief that his yard has never had a candidate as strong as Desert Flower, who enjoyed a perfect juvenile campaign last season, culminating in a dominant five-and-a-half-length win in the Fillies' Mile over the Guineas course and distance.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | David Milnes
There was a good reason for the lack of Betfred Derby quotes knocking around after Almeric's win in the Listed Feilden Stakes as the son of Study Of Man is not entered at Epsom, but he could be in line to run in the French equivalent at Chantilly, a double last achieved by Intello in 2013. Study Of Man, who stands at Almeric's owner Kirsten Rausing's Lanwades Stud, was represented by a subsequent Group 1 winner at the Craven meeting in the shape of Kalpana last year.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | David Milnes
Zanzoun gave Juddmonte their second win in a Classic trial within the space of three days when landing the feature Nell Gwyn Stakes on day one of the Craven meeting. But there is unlikely to be a dream return to the Rowley Mile for the winner next month as the only Guineas entry she holds is in France.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | David Milnes
Morning rain in Suffolk did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm at the launch of a collaboration between Autism In Racing and the Newmarket Pony Academy at the British Racing School on Tuesday The link-up, which was hosted by Jane Buick, wife of the dual champion Flat jockey William Buick, offers pony riding for children who are autistic, with the hope they become regular events.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | David Milnes
One-time Triumph Hurdle contender Palladium has left Nicky Henderson and joined John and Thady Gosden in Newmarket, where he will be prepared for a return to the Flat. Last season's German Derby winner, who cost Lady Bamford €1.4 million last October, has a mid-season target of the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot. The Gosdens have enjoyed major success for the owner, most recently when Soul Sister won the 2023 Oaks, following Star Of Seville's victory in the 2015 Prix de Diane.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Graeme Rodway |David Milnes
It’s ten years since Golden Horn won this race en route to victory in the Derby at Epsom and five of this season’s eight runners have entries in the big one on the first Saturday in June. Sallaal is among them and his pedigree alone warrants the entry. He is by Frankel and out of Nahrain, who won two Group/Grade 1s for Sallaal’s trainer Roger Varian. That makes this three-year-old a half-brother to the top-class Benbatl, who won three times at the top level.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Robbie Wilders |David Milnes
Like all Classic trials the significance of the Nell Gwyn varies from year to year. Three seasons ago it gave us Cachet, who struck at Newmarket a few weeks later. The past two runnings, meanwhile, have failed to produce a top miler. Connections of Arabian Dusk will hope that changes. She comes out 7lb clear on adjusted Racing Post Ratings, but that is testament to her busy two-year-old season. Her direct rivals were not precocious enough to be granted the same opportunities.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | David Milnes
Maljoom, who won almost £850,000 in prize-money for Newmarket trainer William Haggas, will continue his career in the UAE with trainer Michael Costa. The lightly raced six-year-old looked as good as ever when finishing third behind Soul Rush and Hong Kong superstar Romantic Warrior, beaten just a length and a quarter, in the Group 1 Dubai Turf on World Cup night at Meydan this month.
