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Virtual Live Racing to Launch at Ascot

Virtual Live Racing, which is a type of virtual racing product that is based on past performance data from previously run real races utilising a racecourse’s rich archive and intellectual property database, will launch at Ascot Racecourse, a UK first. The latest CGI technology will be used to create a fully immersive digital racing and betting experience of Ascot. The idea is that VLR’s product will offer a no cost, risk free, revenue stream opportunity to racetracks to extend their digital brand distribution to access a lucrative tote betting market.

“We embrace new technology, and the exciting opportunities that it is creating, especially in the increasingly popular virtual racing space,” said Ascot Racecourse Chief Operating Officer Alastair Warwick. “VLR offer a unique, innovative, market leading product which brings a new dimension to virtual racing that allows the Ascot brand to offer several thousand virtual races 24/7/365 to new and existing digital betting entertainment audiences globally.”

“It’s a great honour for VirtualLiveRacing.com to partner with Ascot Racecourse and introduce our new concept in Virtual Live Racing to the UK,” said VLR Chairman Vincent Caldwell.

For more information go to www.virtualliveracing.com.

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James Bethell to Retire, Transfer Licence to Son Ed

After training for 46 years, James Bethell will retire on Jan. 1, Racing Post reported on Sunday. The licence will pass to his son Ed, who will continue to train at his father’s old yard of Thorngill Stables in Middleham. Listed winner Moss Gill (Ire) (No Nay Never), who ran third in the G1 Nunthorpe S. this August, will be among the 30-odd horses in work next term.

“I think younger people can work with all the technology and modern communications better than us older folk and I thought it was a good time to do it,” the 68-year-old told Racing Post. “Edward has had a good grounding, he’s been to Gai Waterhouse in Australia, he did a stint in America, he’s had spells with Charlie Hills and with Robert Cowell, and he’s been assistant here.

“We did look at becoming joint trainers but I think it’s better to have it in his name so he gets all the credit if there’s credit to be had. It should work, we get on very well together and he can come to me for advice.”

The elder Bethell, who was an assistant to Bruce Hobbs and Arthur Budgett before training in his own name, celebrated his biggest wins as a trainer with group winners Rich Ground (GB) (Common Grounds {GB}) and Strawberry Dale (Ire) (Bering {GB}).

Added Ed, “I’ve wanted to train all my life, despite Dad’s best efforts to put me off. It’s daunting, especially with what’s going [on] in the world. But as someone said the other day, there’s never a right time to start training racehorses.”

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Arqana Sales Reworked Due to New French COVID Policy

France extended its curfew measures from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. to other parts of the country, including Deauville, for the next six weeks on Thursday, with another two week extension a possibility as COVID-19 cases increase. The curfew will not affect the Arqana Autumn Sales with Flat yearlings Nov. 14 and Nov. 16-18 with horses-in-training, stores and NH-bred yearlings. However, the Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale, which normally features a mix of Flat and National Hunt breeding prospects, broodmares and foals, has been retooled, as its sessions normally finish outside of the allowed time window. The Dec. 5-8 sale will now only include Flat fillies, broodmares and foals. The National Hunt mares and foals have instead been moved to the inaugural National Hunt Breeding Stock Sale at Deauville on Nov. 19, allowing British and Irish buyers the opportunity to make the most of a single trip to France. For more information on the new sale and the rest of the upcoming French sales, please visit www.arqana.com.

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Teofilo’s Subjectivist Makes All In the Royal Oak

Set against the gloom of a damp autumn day, Sunday’s G1 Prix Royal-Oak belonged to the Brits as Subjectivist (GB) (Teofilo {Ire}) made all under Joe Fanning to take the ParisLongchamp feature. Always content on the front end as he had been when registering a 15-length success in similarly testing conditions in Goodwood’s G3 March S. Aug. 29, the 6-1 shot drifted left into the centre of the track up the home straight but was as resolute as could be expected of a Mark Johnston representative. At the line, the second group 1 winner of the weekend in France for the stable and sire had two lengths to spare over fellow 3-year-old and 11-10 favourite Valia (Fr) (Sea the Stars {Ire}), with the 2018 winner Holdthasigreen (Fr) (Hold That Tiger) clinging gamely to third place 2 1/2 lengths behind. “He was very brave and we knew he would enjoy the ground, so I was determined to ride him that way,” jockey Joe Fanning explained. “He was a little bit keen going to post, but once he got in front he pricked his ears and was fine. I was trying to save a bit throughout and when I got to the straight he started to lug a bit left with me and I was worried he’d throw it away. He’s never done it before, but has a bent front shoe so whether that has something to do with it, I’m not sure. He’s a tough stayer and he’s improving.”

A day after the stable’s similarly cheap purchase Gear Up (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) had prevailed in the G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud, Subjectivist was rounding off the current season in style for the Middleham trainer who has made no secret of his love of the stayers’ program. While he has had to endure near-misses in most of Britain’s major “Cup” events in recent times, this latest recruit is unexposed over marathon trips and could be one to provide some more heydays in the category in 2021. Runner-up in the Listed Stonehenge S. over a mile at Salisbury last August, the bay has progressed with each start since moving to middle distances as a 3-year-old and on his third outing captured the 11-furlong Listed Glasgow S. at Hamilton July 16. Third in the G3 Gordon S. at Goodwood July 30 and seventh in York’s G2 Great Voltigeur S. Aug. 19, he moved up to 14 furlongs to dominate the March before finishing seventh in a strong renewal of Doncaster’s Sept. 12 G1 St Leger from which three winners had already emerged before Sunday.

Subjectivist is the third foal out of the triple listed-placed Reckoning (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), with her second being this stable’s Sir Ron Priestley (GB) (Australia {GB}) who also took the March S. before finishing runner-up in the St Leger. Also responsible for the recent G2 Rockfel S. third Alba Rose (GB) (Muhaarar {GB}), she is fast establishing a formidable reputation as a producer of note. Kin to the GIII My Charmer H. runner-up Hope Cross (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}), she is a granddaughter of Aspiration (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells) who is a full-sister to the G1 Gran Criterium hero and G1 Irish Derby runner-up Sholokhov (Ire). Connected to the G1 Irish Derby and G1 Coronation Cup hero Soldier of Fortune (Ire) (Galileo {Ire), the G1 Dewhurst S. winner Intense Focus (Giant’s Causeway) and the G1 Moyglare Stud S. heroine Skitter Scatter (Scat Daddy), Reckoning’s yearling filly is by Ulysses (Ire) while she also has a colt foal by Roaring Lion.

Sunday, ParisLongchamp, France
PRIX ROYAL-OAK-G1, €210,000, ParisLongchamp, 10-25, 3yo/up, 15 1/2fT, 3:38.68, hy.
1–SUBJECTIVIST (GB), 122, c, 3, by Teofilo (Ire)
1st Dam: Reckoning (Ire) (MSP-Eng), by Danehill Dancer (Ire)
2nd Dam: Great Hope (Ire), by Halling
3rd Dam: Aspiration (Ire), by Sadler’s Wells
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. (62,000gns Ylg ’18 TAOCT). O-Dr J Walker; B-Mascalls Stud (GB); T-Mark Johnston; J-Joe Fanning. €119,994. Lifetime Record: GSW-Eng, 15-4-4-2, €225,070. *1/2 to Sir Ron Priestley (GB) (Australia {GB}), GSW & G1SP-Eng, $414,683. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Valia (Fr), 120, f, 3, Sea the Stars (Ire)–Veda (Fr), by Dansili (GB). O-H H The Aga Khan; B-H H The Aga Khan’s Studs SC (FR); T-Alain de Royer-Dupre. €48,006.
3–Holdthasigreen (Fr), 130, g, 8, Hold That Tiger–Greentathir (Fr), by Muhtathir (GB). O/B-Jean Gilbert & Claude Le Lay (FR); T-Bruno Audouin. €24,003.
Margins: 2, 2HF, NK. Odds: 6.00, 1.10, 8.60.
Also Ran: Princess Zoe (Ger), Mister Nino (Fr), Get Shirty (Ire), Libello (Ire), Hooking (GB). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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