July, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Nine Students Graduate From Riding A Dream Academy

The inaugural class of nine students from the Riding A Dream Academy have graduated from its scholarship programme. Set up after Khadijah Mellah became the first British Muslim woman to win a UK horse race, the Riding A Dream Academy offers the year-long Khadijah Mellah Scholarship which was established to help other young people aged 14-18 from diverse and underrepresented communities get into racing and to increase diversity and inclusion in the sport. The Academy is funded by the Racing Foundation, with additional support from the Jockey Club and Champion Equestrian.

The students learned to ride racehorses under the expert tuition of the instructors at the British Racing School (BRS) in Newmarket where the Academy and its programmes are run. The course began with a residential week at the BRS in August 2021 and the students have returned for one weekend each month since then to continue their tuition.

Mellah said, “I am so incredibly proud and humbled by everything that the students have achieved this year. To see them arrive in August last year having only ever sat on riding school ponies, to now be riding racehorses on the gallops here is just mind blowing. As a group and individually I am so impressed by the talent, hard work and commitment they have put in and I can't wait to see where their careers in racing take them next. None of this would have been possible without the support of the Racing Foundation and the incredible instructors at the British Racing School–I am so grateful to everyone who has made the Academy possible.”

The Academy was set up by Naomi Lawson and ITV Racing's Oli Bell as a legacy to the achievements of Khadijah Mellah who became the first British Muslim woman to win a horse race in the UK when landing the Magnolia Cup at Goodwood in 2019.

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Set Up Free Private Online Poker Tournament Tables And Games

Playing poker online is fast replacing the traditional home poker games with friends. Many people find playing online poker to be fun and financially rewarding, but still find themselves missing poker night. Before online poker became so popular, many people would host a poker night at their house for their friends, and they would all sit around and play. A lot of online players miss this opportunity to play and chat with their friends.

Many online poker sites now give players the option to have private poker tables. You log on, setup the table, and only allow the players that you invite in to play. It still isn’t exactly the same as playing at home, and it does require you to get your friends into playing poker online, but many players find it just as pleasing as the old at home games. It is much easier to setup an online poker game for your friends than to host one at your home. By playing online, you have no mess to clean up afterwards, and no food to provide, and less time invested in setting up the game and more time in playing the game.

One site that offers players this option is Party Poker. Their software is very user-friendly, and on average it takes most people about 15 minutes to setup an online private game. You begin by loading the Party Poker software on your computer, enter the bonus code FREE25DEP to receive $25 free, then go to the options menu at the top of the screen. From this point, you will click on the create private tables option. The program will then prompt you to select the kind of game you want to play, and the stakes for that particular game. It also will ask you to make a password for your table, which allows you to control the people that have access to your game. You decide whether you want to play a limit game, or no limit game.

Once you have selected all the options you want, and create the table, the game will give you ten minutes to have all players seated at the table. To actually find your poker table you created, go to the menu on the far left of the screen. It is sectioned out into five different categories: real money, party poker million, sit and go, tournaments, and play money. Each one of these categories has its own drop down menu under it. Go to the real money section and click to access the drop down menu. Click on the name of the game you selected, and the stakes you entered when you set up your table. Find your table name in this list, and click join table.

Once you have completed the above and your friends have joined you, you are ready to play the game.

It is important to remember that the system only gives you a ten minute time frame to set up your table, get your friends to that table, and start playing the game. It helps if you have pre-selected a time to play the game, rather than calling everyone at the last minute and getting them online to play. Remember that you have to give your friends the table password, or they will not be able to get into your game. You will also need to send all potential players directions as to how to find the table you have setup for the game.

Team JHR Launched By Jessica Harrington Racing

Team JHR, a new and exclusive member-only club, was launched by dual-purpose trainer Jessica Harrington Racing on Monday. The club will give fans a taste of what goes on behind the scenes at Commonstown, with information on the yard's runners, big race previews, and videos. Regular competitions for private tours and race-day experiences are also on offer. Team JHR updates will be available through an app on your smart phone. The cost to join the club is €50 or £42.57 per year.

“We have always been an innovative and progressive yard,” Harrington said. “On the track we strive to produce the best results possible and that's down to the team here and a hell of a lot of hard work put in by everyone involved behind the scenes at Commonstown.

“We are sure there are many racing enthusiasts that would thoroughly enjoy this app and relish the regular insider tips, yard updates and behind the scenes footage. They may or may not ever have a horse in training but either way this will give them a sense of being part of our team. It also links well with our Alpha and Omega Syndicates, ideal for those who want a taster of membership with the hope of progression to shared ownership.”

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Breeders’ Cup Winner Modern Games Takes On World Number One Baeed In Sussex

World number one Baaeed will not face QIPCO 2000 Guineas winner Coroebus when he bids to extend his unbeaten run to nine races in Wednesday's £1 million Qatar Sussex Stakes, which is part of the 35-race QIPCO British Champions Series as well as the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series.

However, with last year's winner Alcohol Free among four more Group 1 winners in a field of seven, and on a course renowned for its upsets, it would be risky to assume success to be a foregone conclusion.

The meeting between Baaeed and Coroebus, in what is traditionally the first big clash of the generations at a mile, was much anticipated and Charlie Appleby spoke very positively about his colt at Ascot on Saturday.

However, on Monday morning he tweeted: “Unfortunately Coroebus will not run in this week's Sussex Stakes @Goodwood_Races. He was lame in his box this morning and after examination was found to have an abscess in his left hind pastern. This is being treated and he will now target the G1 Prix Jacques le Marois.”

Fortunately, the strength in depth among the 3-year-olds at Godolphin's Moulton Paddocks is such that Appleby can still call upon one of this year's Classic-winning colts, Modern Games, while dual Group 1 juvenile winner Angel Bleu adds to the 3-year-olds' hand significantly.

Baaeed was a very impressive Group 3 winner over the Sussex Stakes course and distance 12 months ago. He has since raced exclusively at the highest level and won another four times, on the last three occasions in races won also by the mighty Frankel on his way to a second Sussex Stakes win ten years ago.

William Haggas is itching to see him over a mile and a quarter in next month's Juddmonte International Stakes, where Frankel also made the step up in trip, and so this could well be his last race over a mile.

Baaeed was his usual imperious self when despatching old rival Real World in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot last time. Most of the superlatives have already been deployed in describing his stunning rise to the top, so Haggas is finding it hard to add to what he has already said about the Sea The Stars colt, who promises to become a cornerstone of the Shadwell Estate operation at stud for many years to come.

Speaking at Ascot on Saturday, he simply said: “There's not a lot more I can say that I haven't already said, but all has gone well since the Queen Anne and we are nearly there.

“If all goes well at Goodwood and again in the Juddmonte we probably won't see him at a mile again, but I don't know. If he runs in the Juddmonte and gets beaten through lack of stamina then of course we might come back to a mile.”

Modern Games signed off as a juvenile with success in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf and resumed in similar vein when beating Texas in the Poule d'Essai des Poulains at Longchamp. A possible non-stayer when third to Valdeni in the Prix Du Jockey Club, he was most recently a close fifth behind Tenebrism in the seven-furlong Prix Jean Prat.

He is a worthy contender, and Appleby might just as easily have been talking about him rather than Coroebus when he said on Saturday that “as a Dubawi what he achieved in the first half of the season was always a bonus, as Dubawis are always at their best in the second half of the season”.

Angel Bleu has been slow coming to hand, but he won two Group 1s in a month last October and is now pleasing again. Ralph Beckett's Irish Derby winner Westover was well below his best on Saturday, but Angel Bleu is already a Group 2 winner here, having won the Vintage Stakes 12 months ago. Reunited with Frankie Dettori, for whom he won all three Group races, he can outrun his odds.

Beckett said: “The ground might be on the quick side for him but he loves it at Goodwood and I'm much happier with him now than I was. A bit of rain would help, but I don't think that's likely.”

Last year's winner Alcohol Free returned to her best in style against a field of top international sprinters in the Darley July Cup last time, reversing Platinum Jubilee form with the principals from that race, Naval Crown, Artorius and Creative Force for a fourth Group 1 win.

The ground was soft when she beat the QIPCO 2000 Guineas and St James's Palace winner Poetic Flare here 12 months ago, but her July Cup win came on quick going and so she is versatile in terms of both trip and ground. When her owner/breeder Jeff Smith won the 1984 Sussex Stakes with the brilliant Chief Singer, he too had won the July Cup the time before.

Andrew Balding said: “It took her a couple of runs to find her feet this year but she's in great form and she looks very well. She won the race last year, and while this looks a very strong renewal it wasn't a bad one when she beat Poetic Flare.

“She comes here off the back of a really good win over six furlongs in the July Cup, so we are looking forward to it. It will be different ground this year, but they usually do a wonderful job at Goodwood and I'm sure that will be the case again.”

Asked if he thought Alcohol Free might beat Baaeed he replied: “At Goodwood it's not always enough to be the best horse as you need luck too. We wouldn't want to win that way, but it's a horse race at the end of the day.”

Aidan O'Brien, whose five previous winners of the Sussex Stakes include Giant's Causeway (2000) and Rock Of Gibraltar (2002), saddles Order Of Australia, who was fifth here behind Alcohol Free last year.

The 4-year-old led the stable's famous one-two-three in the Breeders' Cup Mile in 2020 but he hasn't won at the top level since and suffered a hairline fracture of a fetlock in the corresponding race 12 months later. He was back to form when making all for a second win in the Group 2 Minstrel Stakes, and O'Brien is looking forward to quicker ground at Goodwood this time.

O'Brien said: “He won nicely the last day at the Curragh and is in good form. He won the same race last year before the Sussex, but then at Goodwood it was a bit soft for him. It will be better ground this year hopefully and that will suit him.”

Japan, which enjoyed Group 1 success at Goodwood with Deirdre in the Nassau Stakes in 2019, will be represented by the Godolphin Mile winner Bathrat Leon. The colt needs to improve, but his trainer Yoshito Yahagi has made such an impact on the international stage – in the Breeders' Cup and at Riyadh, as well as at Meydan – that he cannot be dismissed.

Yahagi told Goodwood media: “I went to Goodwood a long time ago and I really enjoyed the atmosphere, so that's why I selected the Sussex Stakes. He arrived in England on June 23, and having travelled to Dubai before he didn't have any issues at all.

“Last year in the spring the jockey fell off during the Tokyo Mile, which meant the horse wasn't in good order in the autumn. He then started to improve and that's why I think he performed well in Dubai, although he wasn't in perfect order. He has to improve again though against the Sussex Stakes field.”

Recent Summer Mile winner Chindit, who was well held behind Baaeed in both the Lockinge Stakes and the Queen Anne, completes the line-up.

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