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4 days ago |
theownerbreeder.com | Tom Peacock
Anthony Bromley can only shrug his shoulders at the irony. As an up-and-coming bloodstock agent he couldn’t catch a break at buying a Flat horse but instead became the undisputed powerbroker behind the biggest names of the modern jumping era. Now, through strange quirks of fate and fashion, he is managing something close to the best of both worlds, remade as an identifier of bargain two-year-old talent yet still centre stage at Cheltenham or Punchestown.
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6 days ago |
racingpost.com | Tom Peacock
When you get the big bucks, you have to deliver. Cristiano Ronaldo is thought to have been the world's highest paid sportsperson with his salary for Al Nassr and earnings from various endorsements estimated at more than £200 million annually. No-one would ever feel too sorry for the Portuguese bronzed adonis but there have to be receipts for all that Saudi Arabian cash. There won't often be a day when he doesn't have to don his CR7 persona.
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6 days ago |
racingpost.com | Tom Peacock
What distinguishes the Chesham Stakes from other two-year-old races is its rule that runners must have been sired by a stallion who won over at least a mile and a quarter. Something even more unusual happened in Saturday's edition at Royal Ascot as it was landed by a colt whose full-brother was already on the roll of honour from three years earlier.
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1 week ago |
racingpost.com | Tom Peacock
Ralph Beckett was full of praise for the work behind the scenes of the success enjoyed by David and Vimy Aykroyd. The Yorkshire-based owner-breeders have been locking horns with the juggernauts of the thoroughbred world with a handful of mares based with Brian O'Rourke at Copgrove Hall Stud and managed by Patrick Cooper. Their pale blue and white quarters have won a Dante Stakes with Pride Of Arras, a disappointment when one of the favourites for this month's Betfred Derby.
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1 week ago |
racingpost.com | Tom Peacock
A chance of a winner at Royal Ascot is one of the biggest drivers for members of the world's elite spending millions at international auctions. Friday's card demonstrated that it is not always necessary to dig quite as deep with both Group 1 winners costing less than €50,000.
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