THE VERDICT: The 2019 Prince Consort Stakes
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The 28th edition of the Prince Consort Stakes, which is the final prep race for three-year-old colts and geldings before the running of the Classic 2000 Guineas on April 14, provided punters with a better idea of the horses staking a claim for Classic glory. This year, the Anthony Nunes trained Toona […]
Watching the gallops for Sunday, March 17, 2019
KINGSTON, Jamaica – As trainers get their horses ready for their next racing engagements, Quickgallop.com provides its readers with some exercise gallops. Below are the gallops for Sunday, March 17, 2019 A Seh Soup – Cant 9f Gal Last 4f 511 X 373 Action Run (&) – Cant 9f Adonis – Trotted Adoring Lady – […]
Chairman’s Trophy attracts 9, including She’s A Maneater
KINGSTON, Jamaica – There is a strong possibility that champion four-year-old filly and runner-up to the Horse of the Year 2018, She’s A Maneater is going to make her first start for this season next Saturday, March 23, 2019. She’s A Maneater is one of nine entries in the seven and a half furlongs – […]
Lester Piggott: ‘A lot of people know I’m going to turn 80 – but I wish they didn’t’
The racing great, who will be guest of honour at Ascot on Saturday, looks back on the highs and lows of his remarkable career and gives his opinion of the horses of today. Lester Piggott, a dapper yet gaunt man, ghosts across the cold marble floor of a hotel in Mayfair with a vaguely haunted […]
THE VERDICT: The 2019 Thornbird Stakes
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Lady Blue’s two-length victory in the seven-furlong 28th running of the Thornbird Stakes on Saturday last (March 16, 2019) has ignited her connections of the possibility of what is to come in the April 13, 1000 Guineas (fillies only) one-mile Classic event. Quickgallop.com analyses the outcome of the Thornbird in finishing order. […]
Sire of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah dies at 13
VERSAILLES, Ky. (AP) — WinStar Farm says that stallion Pioneerof the Nile, sire of 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, has died. Owner Ahmed Zayat confirmed the death of the 13-year-old to the Associated Press on Monday and said he was "like a family member." WinStar stated on its web site that Pioneerof the Nile […]