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Juddmonte New Sponsor of Irish Oaks

Juddmonte will sponsor the G1 Irish Oaks for the next three years, The Curragh announced via Horse Racing Ireland on Wednesday. The 2020 edition is slated for Saturday, July 18. The distinctive pink, green and white silks have been first past the post three times in the fillies’ Classic-Wemyss Bight (GB) (Dancing Brave) in 1993, Bolas (GB) (Unfuwain) in 1994 and Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) took the 2017 edition. In 2020, Prince Khalid Abdullah’s operation will be represented by homebred fillies G1 bet365 Fillies’ Mile victress Quadrilateral (GB) (Frankel {GB}) and Pocket Square (GB) (Night of Thunder {Ire}). Both of Aidan O’Brien’s 1000 Guineas winners–Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the English and Peaceful (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the Irish equivalent–are also set to line up.

“We are very grateful to His Highness Prince Khalid and the team at Juddmonte for their generous support of The Curragh,” said The Curragh Chief Executive Pat Keogh. “These are very challenging times for all of us and having a great name like Juddmonte sponsoring the Irish Oaks is a great vote of confidence for Irish racing. Juddmonte’s global operation has been associated with some of the greatest thoroughbred horses of our time and is synonymous with quality and prestige which connects well to the sponsorship of an Irish Classic race.”

Added Juddmonte Chief Executive Douglas Erskine Crum, “Juddmonte is very supportive of The Curragh and we are delighted to sponsor this prestigious Classic for the first time. We feel strongly that Juddmonte should demonstrate our support and appreciation of Irish racing and breeding.”

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Keeneland Digital Select Horses Racing Age Catalog Online

The catalog for Keeneland’s online Select Horses of Racing Age Sale June 23 is now available at keenelanddigital.comor. The sale will be presented via the new Keeneland Digital Sales Ring platform.

The catalog features 34 horses, among them Grade II-placed Tempers Rising (Bayern). Other offerings include GSP Surf and Turf (Kitten’s Joy); GSW Ballagh Rocks (Stormy Atlantic); Juror (Tapit), second in his career debut at Tampa Bay June 1; Frills (Candy Ride {Arg}), won her last start in March at Turfway; undefeated Wondrwherecraigis (Munnings); Queen Arella (Speightster), who won her career debut by four lengths at Gulfstream; and Eloquent Speaker (Flatter), who won her maiden at Belmont June 12.

Bidding begins at 9 a.m. ET on sale day. Bidding closes on Hip 1 at 2 p.m. and then at increments of approximately every two minutes on subsequent hips.

For additional information on registering or bidding, contact digitalsales@keeneland.com or visit Keeneland Digital Sales Ring.

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O’Neill: Now Is The Time ‘To Take A Shot’ With Fore Left In Belmont Stakes

Fore Left, originally scheduled to run in Saturday's Woody Stephens on the Belmont Stakes undercard, will now be rerouted to the day's main event, trainer Doug O'Neill told the Daily Racing Form.

The 3-year-old son of Twirling Candy was a part of O'Neill's first-ever Dubai-based string, and won the Group 3 UAE 2,000 Guineas back in February. He had been pointing to the UAE Derby before that race was cancelled due to the global coronavirus pandemic.

At Belmont for several weeks, Fore Left has had two breezes over the main track and has been progressing well off the four-month layoff, O'Neill said. The colt won the listed Tremont Stakes at Belmont Park as a 2-year-old, and is four-for-nine lifetime with earnings over $350,000.

“If we're ever going to take a shot with him, he's telling us that now is the time,” O'Neill told the Daily Racing Form. “He's coming off a real strong performance in Dubai. We really like the one turn, 1 1/8-mile layout and the lack of a lot of speed projected in there.”

Royal Ascot Day Two: Lord North Shows Up For Gosden In Prince Of Wales’s Stakes

The second day of the 2020 Royal Ascot meeting was highlighted by the Group 1 Prince Of Wales's Stakes, a 1 1/4-mile contest for 4-year-olds and up. James Doyle and Lord North quicked impressively in the final furlong to win going away, defeating three previous Royal Ascot winners in Japan, Barney Roy, and Addeybb in the process.

Lord North, a 4-year-old son of Dubawi, was conditioned by trainer John Gosden for his 52nd victory at the Royal Meeting. The colt won a Group 3 race at Haydock on June 7 to kick off his 2020 season, and is now two-for-two on the year.

In Wednesday's first race, William Knight saddled his first Royal winner when Sir Busker was partnered to a 3/4-length success by jockey Oisin Murphy in the Silver Royal Hunt Cup. The 4-year-old by Sir Prancealot won his first start of the season on June 2 at Newcastle.

“(Sir Busker) was my first runner from the new yard, and my father died that morning, so he means quite a lot to me, this horse,” said Knight, who moved from West Sussex to Newmarket in May. “It is a great facility that we are in in Newmarket, and it's just lovely to have started off so well and to have my first Royal Ascot winner is the icing on the cake. Elated, very, very happy. It is such a shame that we can't enjoy it all with the owners, Kennet Valley, because they are such a lovely group of people; I'm sure there would have been a good booze-up in the car park afterwards, but we will have to wait and get home to do that.”

Ryan Moore scored his 60th victory at the Royal Meeting in the day's second race, piloting Aidan O'Brien trainee Russian Emperor to a half-length triumph in the Group 3 Hampton Court Stakes. The 3-year-old son of Galileo out of multiple Group 1 winner Atlantic Jewel (Fastnet Rock) may be considered for the Epsom Derby next out.

“He is a lovely colt, straightforward and with a good attitude,” said Moore. “He was very professional; he has had the benefit of a couple of runs this year and let us see if he will keep progressing. He has a very good pedigree – his dam was exceptional in Australia. I think he will be a nice horse going forward for the rest of the year.”

Jockey Jim Crowley rode his fourth winner of the week when delivering Hukum with a perfectly timed challenge to take the mile and a half King George V Handicap by half a length in the afternoon's third race. It was also a fourth win of the week for owner Hamdan Al Maktoum while it was a first ever Royal Ascot success for trainer Owen Burrows.

“As a kid and when I was battling around Fontwell and Plumpton 20 years ago, I would never have dreamed I would be here training a Royal Ascot winner for someone like Sheikh Hamdan,” Burrows said. “All thanks to him for having the trust in me to do the job. I was very fortunate to have had a great grounding at Sir Michael Stoute's where I was around good horses and you can pick up plenty – I have just been very fortunate.”

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