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Group 2 Winner Quickthorn Ready For Cadran Challenge

Group winner Quickthorn (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) will start next in the G1 Prix du Cadran at ParisLongchamp on Oct. 1, trainer Hughie Morrison confirmed on Saturday. Since beginning his 2022 campaign in April, Lady Blyth's 5-year-old gelding was second in the Listed Further Flight S. at Nottingham and filled that position again in the G3 Sagaro S. behind Princess Zoe (Ger) (Jukebox Jury {Ire}) at Ascot at the end of April. The G3 Henry II S. went his way at Sandown one month later and he triumphed in the G2 Prix Maurice de Nieuil at ParisLongchamp on July 14. In his most recent appearance, he ran out a 14-length winner of the G2 Lonsdale Cup at York on Aug. 19, and turned in a solid work for Morrison on Saturday.

Morrison said, “He worked well this morning and will go for the Cadran. He's in great form.”

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Group 1 Winner Sakhee’s Secret Dead

Sakhee's Secret (GB) (Sakhee-Palace Street, by Secreto), who bested Dutch Art (GB) in the 2007 G1 July Cup before going on to success as a sire, has died in Italy aged 17.

Trained by Hughie Morrison, Sakhee's Secret won five of 11 starts, with his July Cup win the highlight. He stood at Whitsbury Manor Stud in England for six seasons before moving on to Allevamento Si Fra in Italy, where he was champion sire in 2019 and 2020. Sakhee's Secret has sired 13 stakes winners, headed by New Zealand Group 1 winner Sakhee's Soldier (NZ), Italian Group 2 winner Out Of Time (Ger) and Italian Classic winners Salford Secret (Ire) and Granatina (Ity).

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Racing League Teams Taking Shape

John Gosden, alongside fellow Newmarket trainers Sir Mark Prescott, Robert Cowell and David Simcock, will make up one of the dozen teams of the Racing League tournament which begins next summer. Another Newmarket team is comprised of Michael Bell, Ed Dunlop, James Fanshawe and Roger Varian. Clive Cox, Nicky Henderson, Charlie Hills and Jamie Osborne are representing Lambourn. Another team is Mick Appleby, Michael Dods, David O’Meara and Paul Midgley. Mick Channon has joined Paul and Oliver Cole, Eve Johnson Houghton and Hughie Morrison. France will also send a team combining trainers Philippe Decouz, Gavin Hernon, and Edouard Monfort.

The Racing League will see 12 teams of 30 horses each compete over 36 races during a six-week period at Newcastle, Doncaster, Lingfield and Windsor. Each event is worth £50,000, with an overall prizemoney of £1.8 million for the series beginning on July 29 and running until Sept. 2.

In November, six previous teams were released: Tim Easterby and Richard Fahey; Charlie Fellowes, Hugo Palmer and George Scott; Andrew Balding and Richard Hannon; George Baker, David Menuisier, Gary Moore and Amanda Perrett; Roger Charlton, Alan King, Martyn Meade and Brian Meehan; and, representing Ireland, Joseph O’Brien and his brother Donnacha.

Jeremy Wray, Racing League Chief Executive said, “We are really pleased to have such an illustrious group of trainers forming the 12 teams and are delighted to be adding an international flavour with the teams from Ireland and France. The next step will be for each team to select their three jockeys.”

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Telecaster Withdrawn From Arc After Setback, 15 Horses Remain

Castle Down Stud’s MGSW Telecaster (GB) (New Approach {Ire}) has been withdrawn from Sunday’s G1 Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe after a setback. The Hughie Morrison trainee was set to receive his favoured soft going, as more rain fell in Paris overnight and the forecast calls for more wet weather later this week in the Paris area. The 2019 G2 Dante S. winner relished the heavy going in the G2 Grand Prix de Deauville when last seen on Aug. 30.

“It’s a real shame, but this is what can happen with horses–he’s just wasn’t 100% sound this morning,” said Castle Down Stud’s Mark Weinfeld. “We’re absolutely gutted. It’s nothing too serious, but it’s just sod’s law.

“He’s in the G1 Champion S. at Ascot [on Oct. 17]–and as I haven’t heard what the vet has said, I’m not sure if he’ll make that or not. We just need to know what the problem is. It would be nice if he made Ascot, because that is likely to be soft ground too. It’s rather deflated the week, though.”

Weinfeld added, “I think he’ll probably stay in training next year. “I was hoping we’d have had a good offer from a stud by now–but nothing has come yet, so we could continue next year and hope for a wet year. We’re all very disappointed. But the horse is in one piece, and we live to fight another day.”

Other defectors at this entry stage are: G1 St Leger winner Logician (GB) (Frankel {GB}) for Juddmonte and John Gosden, and Joseph O’Brien’s quintet of Buckhurst (Ire) (Australia {GB}), Crossfirehurricane (Kitten’s Joy), Thames River (GB) (Free Eagle {Ire}), Degraves (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) and New York Girl (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}), leaving a field of 15.

Dual Arc heroine Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) is now favoured over brilliant Classic heroine Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), as ground conditions continue to worsen.

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