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TurfTrax Utilised at Qatar Goodwood Festival

The upcoming Qatar Goodwood Festival will provide live weather data from TurfTrax, the Cambridgeshire-based technology company announced on Sunday. Developed in conjunction with a number of leading UK racecourses, the system provides horsemen, media and the general public with up-to-the minute GoingStick readings, going maps, irrigation and rails positions, as well as detailed live weather data comprising wind speed and direction, rainfall and soil moisture content via a dedicated webpage. This technology was previous used with success at Royal Ascot and Newmarket’s July Cup Festival.

“We have been delighted with the response to the live weather data app so far,” said TurfTrax Managing Director Mike Maher. “There certainly seems to be increasing demand for accurate data and the benefit of the TurfTrax weather system is that the information it measures comes direct from the course and not a weather station in the nearest town which could be several miles away.

“The information delivered by the app has been available to racecourses using the TurfTrax weather system for a number of years, but investment in the front-end now enables them to make the same information available to a wider group of stakeholders.”

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Hollie Doyle Becomes Retained Jockey for Imad Al Sagar

Hollie Doyle has been appointed the retained jockey for Imad Al Sagar of Blue Diamond Stud. Al Sagar has been part owner of Classic-winning colts turned sires Authorized (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) and Araafa (Ire) (Mull Of Kintyre), as well as MG1SW Decorated Knight (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) among others.

“We are thrilled to add Hollie Doyle to our team,” said Al Sagar in a statement. “We have all been impressed with how Hollie has risen to become one of the best of her profession. She is an extremely dedicated, strong and astute jockey. We have some lovely horses to run for us this season and I look forward to Hollie becoming an invaluable member of our team.”

Added Doyle, “I am delighted to be teaming up with Imad Al Sagar for the near future. I hope that we will have plenty of success.”

The Newmarket-based Blue Diamond Stud is home to approximately 45 broodmares and there are an additional 30 horses in training. The aforementioned Decorated Knight is a Blue Diamond stallion based at the Irish National Stud.

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Enable Exits King George Well

Fresh off the back of her 5 1/2-length victory in the G1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S. on Saturday, Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) emerged from the Ascot showpiece in good condition, trainer John Gosden confirmed.

The next start for the formidable Juddmonte colourbearer is undecided, but she is targeting a pair of races at York–either the Aug. 19 G1 Juddmonte International S. or the Aug. 20 G1 Yorkshire Oaks. The former features a rematch with Ghaiyyath (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), while the outstanding dual Classic heroine Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is slated to take part in the latter. The Coolmore representative demolished the G1 Investec Oaks field by nine lengths on July 4 and will receive a break in the weights. A two-time winner of the G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Enable’s 12-race winning streak was snapped with a runner-up performance in very soft ground in last year’s Arc, and she found Ghaiyyath 2 1/4 lengths too good on the day in the G1 Coral-Eclipse S. at Sandown last time.

“Enable is in good form,” trainer John Gosden told the Ascot Racecourse notes team on Sunday morning of his triple King George winner. “She ate up and had a nice lead-out, jogged up well, had a pick of grass. I was clear that she wasn’t wound up for the Eclipse, and I didn’t see the point of jumping out the gate and trying to go head to head with Ghaiyyath (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) first time out–I didn’t think that would be any help to her, so she ran great and she has come on for the race.”

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Observations on the European Racing Scene: July 25, 2020

HALF TO GOLDEN HORN DEBUTS AT NEWMARKET

1.15 Ascot, Novice, £10,400, 2yo, f, 7fT
SNOW LANTERN (GB) (Frankel {GB}) is the first filly bred by Rockcliffe Stud out of their four-times group 1-winning 1000 Guineas heroine Sky Lantern (Ire) (Red Clubs {Ire}). Likewise a grey in training with Richard Hannon, she encounters some similarly blue-blooded rivals in the race her stable won last year with the subsequent Guineas runner-up Cloak of Spirits (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}).

1.40 Newmarket, Mdn, £6,400, 2yo, 7fT
DHAHABI (IRE) (Frankel {GB}) understandably caused a sensation when the second highest-priced lot at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1, being a half-brother to the Epsom Derby and Arc hero Golden Horn (GB). Making his debut for Charlie Appleby in the race won 12 months ago by fellow Godolphin representative Military March (GB) (New Approach {Ire}), the March-foaled bay encounters another notable newcomer in Saeed Suhail’s Diamond and Gold (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}), a Sir Michael Stoute-trained 400,000gns half-sister to Ladys First (GB) (Dutch Art {GB}) who is the sole filly in the line-up.

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