Emma Berry

Newmarket

European and International Editor at Thoroughbred Daily News

European & international editor @TheTDN, editor of Bloodstock Notebook, general dogsbody at Beverley House Stables. Words and photos via Collings Berry Media.

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Articles

Palmer Feels 'Same Buzz' as Seagulls Eleven Follows Sire's Path to the Guineas

1 week ago | thoroughbreddailynews.com | Emma Berry

Hugo Palmer did not disguise his pleasure following a Rowley Mile racecourse gallop for his 2,000 Guineas contender Seagulls Eleven (Ire), whose sire Galileo Gold (GB) was the trainer's first Classic winner in the same race nine years ago. Declaring himself “thrilled” after a debrief with Seagulls Eleven's rider Oisin Murphy, Palmer said, “One of the things that's new in my life, having moved [from Newmarket], is that I've had to get used to the fact that we've only got one gallop.
'Is He a Classic Horse?': O'Brien Seeking Answers to the Big Question

1 week ago | thoroughbreddailynews.com | Emma Berry

ROSEGREEN, Ireland — It's that time of year again. The countdown to the Classics. Better than Christmas. And there are few better ways to indulge dreams of what may be about to unfold in the coming weeks than by annoying Aidan O'Brien for a morning at Ballydoyle. He must find it irksome, all these pesky journalists turning up, as surely as the first swallow of spring.
Weekend Watch: Big Day for Manton in Newbury's Classic Trials

1 week ago | thoroughbreddailynews.com | Emma Berry

If you're a jumps devotee, Saturday will be all about the Scottish Grand National meeting and wondering whether Willie Mullins can continue his ominous late charge in the British National Hunt trainers' championship to reel in long-time leader Dan Skelton. There is seemingly nothing the master of Closutton can't do. I wouldn't bet against him returning with a favourable deal for Ireland if he was sent as special envoy to Washington to negotiate with President Trump on tariffs.
Cosmic Comeback Diverted to Kempton as Ground Dries Out for Classic Trials

2 weeks ago | thoroughbreddailynews.com | Emma Berry

An unusually dry March, with those conditions carrying on into April, will be causing headaches for trainers and clerks of courses alike, and it is one reason that we will be seeing the return of Juddmonte's Cosmic Year (GB) (Kingman {GB}) at Kempton instead of in Saturday's G3 Greenham Stakes.
Breeze-up Season Gets 'Rock-and-Rolling' at Osarus

2 weeks ago | thoroughbreddailynews.com | Emma Berry

The wraps come off the European breeze-up season on Wednesday at Osarus's La Teste de Buch fixture. A catalogue of just 37 lots – down by more than 50% on last year's entries – has been reduced further by four withdrawals, and the sale is heavily supported by a draft of 14 from John Bourke's Hyde Park Stud, a long-term backer of Osarus. This more gentle introduction to the 2025 round of two-year-old sales is in a sense the calm before the storm.
Seven Days: Nobody Knows Nothing

2 weeks ago | thoroughbreddailynews.com | Emma Berry

A little trip down Street Cry memory lane last week prompted a call to Dan Pride in Kentucky and one of the best lines anyone in the bloodstock community has ever offered up during an interview. In discussing the initial market hesitation around Street Cry's European lineage and not-quite-movie-star looks, Pride opined that it was a good early lesson that, in the stallion market in particular, horses can often makes fools of man. “It taught me that nobody knows nothing,” he said.
Watching Brief for Bloodstock World as Trump Enforces Trade Tariffs

3 weeks ago | thoroughbreddailynews.com | Emma Berry

It felt more doomsday than liberation day as the world – especially those people who do business with America – awaited President Trump's address from the White House on trade tariffs. In the bloodstock sector, where horses are regularly traded between Europe and the United States, the one thing we can be certain of for now is that the issue will add some uncertainty to the market.
Seven Days: The Artists' Touch

3 weeks ago | thoroughbreddailynews.com | Emma Berry

It's going to get a little confusing this year with all these painters coming to the fore. Even more confusingly, Henri Matisse (Ire) and Camille Pissarro (Ire) are both by Wootton Bassett (GB) out of mares by Pivotal (GB), and, unsuprisingly, they are no ordinary mares.
Weekend Watch: What Not To Miss This Saturday

3 weeks ago | thoroughbreddailynews.com | Emma Berry

Gone is the mud, the horses' coats are on the turn, and the blossom is abundant. What's more, there's good racing on the telly – and lots of it. If you're reading this in a European time zone, here's hoping that your Saturday morning begins good and early in order to be conscious, if not out of bed, in time for Australia's G1 Tancred Stakes at 5.35 (or a more leisurely 6.35 for those on the continent).
'Intense Renewal' Underway in Italian Racing

1 month ago | thoroughbreddailynews.com | Emma Berry

It doesn't take too deep a dive into the pedigree of Northern Dancer to understand the Italian influence in so many racehorses in training these days. Italy's significance in the annals of racing and breeding history reaches beyond Nearco of course, but in recent years there has been a very real fear that the country is losing its place in the Thoroughbred world order. Indeed, its black-type races have been gradually downgraded.