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The Jockey Club RoR National Championships Return to Aintree

After a year's hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Jockey Club Retraining of Racehorses National Championships will return to the Aintree International Equestrian Centre. The four-day event will take place from Aug. 26 through Aug. 29, and 2021 is the first year with The Jockey Club as the title sponsor. Events including dressage, jumping and showing, with the RoR Northern Dressage Championships on Thursday, while there is a Saturday evening gala performance of showing classes culminating with the crowning of The Jockey Club Supreme Champion. Currently there are 276 former racehorses entered across the championships, with those horses credited with earning over £5.3 million in prizemoney and competing in 3,981 races either under Rules or in point-to-points. Some of the star entrants include Cheltenham Grade 1 winners Don Poli (Ire) (Poliglote {GB}) and Yorkhill (Ire) (Presenting {GB}) competing in newcomer and in-hand showing classes, respectively.

North West Head of Racing and Clerk of the Course at Aintree Racecourse, Sulekha Varma, said, “We are delighted to welcome back The Jockey Club RoR National Championships to the Aintree International Equine Centre in 2021 and it is fantastic that The Jockey Club is now extending its support to become the headline sponsor of the event. Retraining of Racehorses plays an absolutely vital role in the racing industry and it is a great honour for Aintree to stage its flagship event and publicise the outstanding work it undertakes.”

Coverage of the championships from Aintree will be live-streamed on Friday and Saturday via ClipMyHorse.TV, providing an opportunity to further increase awareness of the versatility of the thoroughbred and the high standards achieved by competitors and their former racehorses.

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Quintet of Horses Added to Tattersalls August Sale

A total of five more lots have been added to the upcoming Tattersalls August Sale including the 87-rated juvenile filly Almohandesah (GB) (Postponed {Ire}). The winning 2-year-old filly is from the extended family of champions Royal Applause (GB) (Waajib {Ire}) and Lyric Fantasy (Ire) (Tate Gallery) and will be offered by Karl Burke's Spigot Lodge Stables as lot 190A.

The other late additions are: the Nigel Tinkler-consigned triple winner Night on Earth (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) (lot 190B) who is rated 88; lot 190C, Trais Fluors (GB) (Dansili {GB}), who is rated 101 and hails from Mich Channon's West Ilsley Stables; as do the 2-year-old colt and filly Chelms Prince (GB) (Heeraat {Ire}) (lot 190D) and Chelms Princess (GB) (Gregorian {Ire}) (lot 190E), respectively.

The Tattersalls August Sale will take place on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 with 463 lots split over the two days. Selling will begin at 11 a.m. each day. For more information, please visit www.tattersalls.com.

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Albasheer Comes Back at Salisbury

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Tuesday's Observations features 'TDN Rising Star' Albasheer (Ire) (Shamardal).

6.05 Salisbury, Cond, £15,500, 3yo/up, 6fT
ALBASHEER (IRE) (Shamardal) makes his seasonal return for Shadwell and Owen Burrows, having earned TDN Rising Star status on his introduction at Doncaster last July. Subsequently runner-up in the G2 Champagne S. and sixth in the G1 Dewhurst S., the descendant of the great Height of Fashion (Fr) (Bustino {GB}) starts again with a promising career still ahead of him taking on two group-race sprinters in Saint Lawrence (Ire) (Al Kazeem {GB}) and Mighty Gurkha (Ire) (Sepoy {Aus}) and one who looks ready for that bracket in Jumby (Ire) (New Bay {GB}).

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Fall Plans Revealed For Shadwell Stars

Shadwell group winners Raabihah (Sea The Stars {Ire}) and Baaeed (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) are targetting the Oct. 3 G1 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and Sept. 5 G1 Prix du Moulin, respectively, Shadwell Racing Manager Angus Gold revealed on Monday.

A 4-year-old filly, Raabihah was fifth in the 2020 Arc after taking the G3 Prix de Psyche last August and running second in the Sept. 13 G1 Qatar Prix Vermeille. Prior to her victory in Sunday's G2 Prix de Pomone, the chestnut was second thrice as the favourite in the May 2 G3 Prix Allez France Longines, the May 26 G2 Prix Corrida at Saint-Cloud and in the Listed Prix du Pays d'Auge at Clairefontaine on Aug. 1. She is also a possible for the G1 Qatar Prix Vermeille on Sept. 12.

“I'd love to think we can have another crack at the Arc–that was the reason she was kept in training,” said Gold. “She got beat a couple of times earlier this season. But as (trainer) Jean-Claude (Rouget) said to me yesterday, sometimes with these fillies who have a relatively hard time at three–she was racing at the top table–it can just take them a while to get back to that level.

“We gave her a break at the stud, and it's just taken her three runs to get back up to speed. The distance yesterday is exactly what she should be running over on pedigree.

“It was great to get her back on track, and I don't see any reason why she wouldn't go for the Arc. Jean-Claude just wants to see how she comes out of it first before deciding whether she runs in the Vermeille first or not.”

Undefeated G3 Bonhams Thoroughbred S. hero Baaeed is in good form for trainer William Haggas. A half-brother to triple Group 3 winner Hukum (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), the colt won a maiden at Leicester on June 7 and doubled up in a Newmarket novice on June 19. Given a first taste of stakes company on July 8, he captured the Listed Sir Henry Cecil S. over a mile at HQ by four lengths. His winning margin in the Bonhams Thoroughbred S. was 6 ½ lengths, also at a mile at Goodwood.

“At the moment we are probably going to the Prix du Moulin, that was the latest from the last conversation I had with Sheikha Hissa and William Haggas,” Gold said of Baaeed. “So the number one plan is to go to the Moulin if all is well.

“Obviously before the horse had run it would have been a silly thing to say this is what he would do, but he was a well-bred horse going into it. It just took him a bit of time to come to himself.

“What probably has surprised me is the speed he's shown–maybe it's just class. Before he'd ever ran I'd have thought he was probably going to be a mile-and-a-quarter to mile-and-a-half horse, so to see him doing all this over a mile is hugely encouraging.

“It's a not problem to have but he's showing too much speed, if that makes sense. He's a very exciting horse so we'll see if he can take the next step up.”

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