July, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Kyprios And Stradivarius Among Goodwood Cup Nine

Kyprios (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Stradivarius (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) are set to renew their rivalry in Tuesday's G1 Al Shaqab Goodwood Cup after a field of nine were confirmed on Sunday.

While Moyglare Stud, Coolmore and Westerberg's G1 Gold Cup winner and Bjorn Nielsen's four-times Goodwood Cup hero are set fair for the two-mile contest, Alan King will be watching the weather again for Trueshan (Fr) (Planteur {Ire}) and Mick and Janice Mariscotti's impressive Listed Esher S. winner Coltrane (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) is another notable in the list.

Nielsen is convinced Stradivarius still has what it takes. “He hasn't lost any of his ability or enthusiasm and if things had gone the right way at Ascot last month I have no doubt that he could have won another Gold Cup, as when they turned in the others were all being ridden along and he was sitting there with a double handful,” he said.

“The way the races have been run, really since October 2018, the tactics have been to put Stradivarius in a pocket and that's a lot easier to do at Ascot as it's a short straight, whereas at York they can't hem him in as it's a long straight and they come up the middle. It happened the last time he won the Goodwood Cup too, as he was held in a pocket there until Frankie got out just in time.

“That's been the strategy and that's the way it is, but Andrea [Atzeni] knows the score. He's ridden him three times and won every time. It could be his last run, of course, but it depends on his performance now and he seems in really good form.”

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Older Mares: Age Not An Impediment To Producing Successful Offspring

It's a common misconception that Thoroughbred mares lose their ability to produce successful offspring as they age. Dr. Inoue from Nagoya University conducted a study which suggests that this might not be because the mares are getting older, but because they're often bred to lower-quality or cheap stallions as they age.

Inuoe examined the effect of broodmare age on their offspring's racing performance through two possible lenses: that foals born to older mares are more likely to have skeletal, muscular and cognitive disadvantages (direct effects); or that foals born to older mares are more likely to be affected by the quality of their sires.

Inuoe used the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders' Association website to collect data on 17,885 horses. Information gathered included sex, trainer, training location, breeding farm, breeding farm location, birth year of sire and dam, races, races won, earnings and quality of sire. Sire quality was determined using the average earnings index (AEI) that calculates the average earning of its offspring.

Results showed that the racing performance of horses born to older mares was lower than that of horses born to younger mares, Inuoe said. However, statistical modeling showed that sire quality was significantly associated with the offspring's racing performance – and that broodmare age was not.

The analysis also showed that older broodmares were often bred to stallions of lesser quality.

Inuoe concluded that the sire's quality had an important influence on the offspring's racing performance and that the effect of maternal aging was negligible. The findings suggest that the age of the broodmare did not directly influence the racing performance of offspring and is not reliable for racing predictions.

Read the study here.