14-04-2019 A Correspondent
Mohaather, winner of Newbury’s Horris Hill Stakes last autumn, continued where he had left off on Saturday (April 13) when returning to the track to capture the Watership Down Stud Greenham Stakes under Jim Crowley - and stamp himself a Classic contender.
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Last year the Greenham Stakes Classic trial was won by the George Scott trained James Garfield - steered to victory by a delighted Frankie Dettori. This year it has lost its star entry - but the ten declared for Saturday's race (April 13) include some great hopes for the season ahead.
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Veteran rider Phil York stole the show with a treble on Legal Ok, Timmie Roe and Streets Of London at the Tedworth Hunt meeting at Barbury Racecourse on Sunday (April 7).
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Too Darn Hot, the best two-year-old in Europe in 2018, is ready to begin his campaign for Classic honours when he reappears in the Group 3 Watership Down Stud Greenham Stakes at Newbury on Saturday (13 April 2019).
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Charlie Appleby, who landed the first big handicap of the 2019 Flat Turf season in Britain winning the Lincoln, has set his sights on capturing the season’s first older horse Group 1 prize with emerging miler Mythical Magic at Newbury on Saturday, 18 May - Al Shaqab Lockinge Day.
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Trainer Tim Underwood will decide later this week whether to let Timmie Roe bid for a six-timer at the Tedworth Hunt meeting at Barbury Racecourse on Sunday (April 7).
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The seven year-old gelding Paisley Park seems to be taking star celebrity status in his stride at Emma Lavelle Racing's stables in Ogbourne Maizey, near Marlborough. Posing for visitors from a syndicate, he looks a picture [above] in his Sun Racing Stayers' Hurdle cloth - in the safe hands of...
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Local trainer Neil King had good reason to remember his first winner at Newbury since February 2008 when The Knot Is Tiedwon the Be Wiser Insurance Juvenile Handicap Hurdle race under champion jockey Richard Johnson.
Read more24-03-2019 Emma Blackburn
Newbury, Saturday, March 23: Noel Fehily delivered the perfect ending to an illustrious career in the saddle when he bowed out as a jockey with a victory on his final ride.
Read more22-03-2019 Emma Blackburn
Altior, Beware the Bear and Pentland Hills, Nicky Henderson’s heroes from last week’s Cheltenham Festival, will parade at Newbury, when the track hosts its last jumps fixture of the 2018-19 season (Saturday, March 23).
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Images from ITV RacingMarlboroughequestrian.news used to have a Horse in the Spotlight feature. Then we changed it to a Horse Profile feature - currently featuring Paisley Park on the strength of his amazing recent victory at Haydock.
The trademark trilby: Richard Osgood on duty at Newbury's pre-Christmas meeting - 19 December 2018It will truly be the end of an era at Newbury on Saturday, December 29, Betway Challow Hurdle Day, when Clerk of the Course Richard Osgood officiates at the track for the final time - 99 years after the first member of the Osgood family joined the racecourse staff.
Laura Thomas with CashAt present, Barbury trainer Laura Thomas has twenty horses at her yard, but she is standing back from training pointers to concentrate on pre-training, rehabilitation and box rest for racehorses - mainly for Alan King whose yard is just over the hill.
Tom Scudamore, Colin Tizzard & the TrophyIt may have rained for much of the afternoon on day two of Newbury's 2018 Ladbrokes Winter Carnival (Saturday, December 1), but the feature race - the £250,000 G3 Ladbrokes Trophy - turned into a Tizzard blizzard - led by Sizing Tennessee.
Winners of the two maiden races at the prestigious Barbury International fixture (December 16) are set to be rewarded with a voucher worth £1,000 to spend at any Irish sale thanks to a new initiative between Barbury and Irish Thoroughbred Marketing.
Sonneofpresenting (right) leads Beau Phil who was to fall heavily at the third third last fenceSarah Rippon was full of praise for Sonneofpresenting after her new charge upset odds-on favourite Cousin Pete it the Barbury International Racing Club meeting at Barbury Racecourse (December 16) - a new pre-Christmas date for this innovative fixture.
Barbury International in January 2018 - when the clouds came downThe Barbury International Racing Club's point-to-point on Sunday (December 16) is its second 2018 appearance. This is because it has moved the fixture from a January to December - to follow on from Cheltenham's two-day International Meeting.
Wayne Hutchinson takes Dingo Dollar to the start at Newbury (November 8)Ante-post favourite Elegant Escape headlines the 23 five-day acceptors for the £250,000 Ladbrokes Trophy at Newbury (Saturday, December 1) - the highlight of day two of the Ladbrokes Winter Carnival.
Will the sun shine on Barbury Racecourse this Sunday?With the unfortunate closure of Hackwood Park at the end of last season, organisers of the Vine & Craven point-to-point have moved from their traditional Easter Monday slot to Sunday, November 25 at Barbury Castle - hoping to benefit from owners and trainers wanting to run their horses before Christmas.
