Recent content by Eleanora Duse

Isn't it a bit early to come to that conclusion, we're only a month into the proper racing season and this is his first crop. You might be right though as I much prefer stallions who proved themselves as 2yos and 3yos. As regards Mill Reef, he was a very muscled colt. As I've said CoT looked...

She's good. I was listening to Francesca and her pal.

Don't you think he looked as if he'd run up a bit light behind the saddle? I think the paddock experts were afraid to say he didn't look impressive.

And won the Coventry first time out.

After joining the Andrew Balding jockey academy 3 years ago Harry Davies goes back to Newmarket to (it seems) be part of the Godolphin set-up.

The Gosdens seem to be using Kieran Shoemark a lot these days. Is he going to be retained next year or just an associated jockey? Shoemark seemed to have a good future ahead of him in 2017/8 when he was retained by Charlton. In 2018 he blew it with a drugs suspension and with Covid intervening...

I think Walwyn had a bad period, like Cecil, but unlike Cecil never recovered. If one looked at the lay of the land in 1976/7 he probably had the best Cliveden horses, had Wildenstein sending his horses over( eventually moving everything over in '78) and had good De Walden horses. Within 3 years...

Ah so that's why.

He was Champion Trainer in '74 (Polygamy) and '75 (Grundy). He was also the leading UK trainer in '77, but you are quite correct he did very little after '78. In '78 he had two big hits: the first was the stable was hit by an equine virus half way through the season and the second was the loss...

Pia was the '67 Oaks winner, which Hide rode for Elsey. You may mean Elsey's Leger winner Peleid (whom he didn't ride), but Hide did ride Julio Mariner a few years later. Of course he did ride Morston to win the Derby though devastated in the paddock to be told by Budgett to go easy on him. He...

He did, in fact gave her a headline. Expects her to take in Listed race next but plan is that she'll be in training as a 4yo. The yearling is a filly by Masar. He may get her too I suppose.

So how does Vandeek rate now after the Morny? On a literal reading of form must be 3-4lb superior to Ramatuelle and 6-7lb superior to River Tiber. With the latter you don't know how to gauge the problems he's had and what effect they had on his run. Another concern is Vandeek has never run on...

Will be interested to see if Walker says anything about his Salisbury winner, Dreamrocker, in this week's Weekender. Wasn't much of a race but the 3yo filly, on her 2nd start, showed a lot of improvement on her racecourse debut (then given an excellent introductory ride by Saffie Osborne). Miss...

Now we won't. Was the €30,000 entry for the French race a loss leader?

If he was outpaced, surely by definition other horses were going faster than him at that stage of the race, which to me looked a pretty crucial part of the race. The usual remedy for that is to put them over further. Doubt they'd do that. I was underwhelmed with his Haydock win. In fact he was...