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Classic contenders and Royal winner headline Dubai Duty Free Spring Trials Saturday

HM the Queen enjoying another day at Newbury

Barney Roy and Dabyah both enhanced their Classic claims with impressive G3 victories at Newbury (April 22), while Her Majesty The Queen was also present on day two of the Dubai Duty Free Spring Trials Weekend to see her colours carried to victory by Call To Mind.  

The Queen, who had celebrated her 91st birthday on Friday with a day's racing at Newbury, returned to the course to see her three-year-old Galileo colt Call to Mind, who she also bred, capture division one of the £8,000 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships Maiden over a mile.

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The magic is back: for Frankie Dettori & Galileo Gold Newbury's Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes cannot come soon enough

Galileo Gold cantering up Newmarket's Long Hill (Summer 2016)

Newmarket trainer Hugo Palmer is excited about running his stable star Galileo Gold in 2017's first proper test in Europe for older milers - the Group One Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes, at Newbury on Saturday, May 20.
 
The four-year-old Paco Boy colt has long had the £350,000 race over the straight mile at Newbury as his target.   

Among the other 20 confirmed entries for the Locking Stakes revealed today (May 3) are Minding (Aidan O'Brien), Ribchester (Richard Fahey) and Qatar Racing's Lightning Spear (David Simcock.)  Galileo Gold's stablemate Home of the Brave may also run.

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Emma Lavelle's first year training on the Marlborough Downs sees her nearly double her winners

Irish Prophecy - the horse they're talking about - with Emma Lavelle

It is less than a year since jumps trainer Emma Lavelle moved from Hampshire to the famous and now much renovated and enlarged Bonita Racing Stables near Marlborough.  And Emma Lavelle Racing's first season there has been a resounding success: her tally of wins stands at 35 - against a total of 19 wins over the previous season at her Hampshire yard.

She says - modestly: "It's been a building year for us" - as in building up the yard's complement of horses. She has seventy boxes and 64 horses in training.

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Newbury Racecourse's flat season gets off to a fine start with the Spring Trials Weekend

Waiting for the crowds

Waiting for the crowds

Newbury’s opening Flat meeting of 2017, the Dubai Duty Free Spring Trials Weekend (April 21 and 22), features well supported Classic trials, a Group race for older horses over a mile and a half, competitive handicaps and maiden races suited to bringing forward stars of the future.

It is a combination aided by excellent prize money, with the Saturday card worth £260,000 and the Friday programme totalling £112,000.

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Trainer George Baker to leave his Manton yard

George Baker with his racehorse named George Baker

George Baker with his racehorse named George Baker

Manton is losing one of its two well-known trainers. George Baker who has been leasing the Barton Yard from Paul Clarke, is buying the freehold of a training establishment in the Surrey Hills - very close to the Sussex-Surrey border.

George Baker - seen here with the racehorse he trains that is also named George Baker - has been training mainly for flat racing, but also for jumps, for nine years. In December 2013 he and his wife, Candida, and children and horses moved to Manton: "It is genuinely a privilege to add our name to the list of famous and successful trainers who have trained at Manton since the middle of the nineteenth century."

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Tedworth Point-to-Point - sun, crowds, fun, firm going...and not many runners

The first race & all five runners in one frame - just

A huge crowd took advantage of a fabulous dry, sunny - if a trifle windy - day on the Marlborough Downs for the annual Tedworth Point-to-Point at the Barbury Racecourse.

There were more stands and food and drink stalls than ever - and for those not riding but of an adventurous spirit there was a 'Bucking Bronco' for the older 'children' and a 'Last Man Standing' for the younger 'children' - and for the even younger a bouncy castle of wondrous proportions.

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Eventing: On the way to Badminton - Riddle Master gets some professional 'yoga'

Rebecca Howard holds Riddle Master as Megan King checks his back

Rebecca Howard holds Riddle Master as Megan King checks his back

Canadian eventer Rebecca Howard has been riding and competing around the world with Riddle Master - known to all as Rupert - for ten years. Now the sixteen year-old Canadian Sports Horse is getting regular physiotherapy sessions in preparation for their appearance at the Mitsubishi Badminton Horse Trials (3-7 May.)

The Canadian bred bay gelding looks smaller than his official 16.1 hands and certainly looks younger than his sixteen years. He was bred by Caroline Bazley and her mother Jean Watson in Orangeville, Ontario - and they still own him. Rebecca Howard was born and brought up in British Columbia - so it is a truly Canadian team.

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