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Cazoo Derby To Be Shown Worldwide

More than 50 international broadcasters will cover the G1 Cazoo Derby at Epsom Downs Racecourse, an official part of Her Majesty The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations, on June 4. The £1.604-million contest will be shown live by 32 broadcasters, and there will be 15 on-site news and lifestyle broadcasters, plus various news agencies for the two-day stand. These broadcasters were secured by The Jockey Club, Racecourse Media Group and HBA Media.

In America, both Good Morning America (ABC network) and NBC News will broadcast live from the course, while Jess Stafford will be hosting live action for TVG. Fox Sports will also be showing a live one-hour programme around the G1 Cazoo Derby itself.

Channels showing live coverage are as follows:

Europe:
- ARD (Germany)
- Polsat (Poland)
- France Télévisions, BFMTV (France),
- SRF (Switzerland)
- SIC (Portugal),
- ITN, Sky News, BBC Breakfast and ITV's Lorraine (UK)
Eclat (14 countries in South-East Asia),
NENT (Scandinavia),
Wedotv (Germany, Switzerland and Austria)
Charlton (Israel)
Sony Pictures Network (India)
TV (China)
ITV, Virgin Media, Racing TV (UK/Ireland)
SuperSport, Racing 240 (Africa)
Green Channel, NHK (Japan)
HKJC, Cable TV, TVB, Now TV (Hong Kong)
Sky Racing, Trackside (Australasia)
ESPN / Star +, SportsMax (Latin America/Caribbean)
MENA (Dubai Racing Channel)

CNN International will be including coverage, available to over 370 million households, while news agencies Reuters, SNTV, PA and AFP will be distributing coverage around the globe. Trans World Sport is also featuring the Cazoo Derby for its upcoming programme.

Phil White, The Jockey Club's London Regional Director, said, “We look forward to welcoming television viewers around the world to Epsom Downs for the Cazoo Derby this weekend. They will not only be witnessing racing's most spectacular carnival, but can also join the Platinum Jubilee celebrations as we celebrate the historic reign of Her Majesty The Queen. I have no doubt that our extensive worldwide audience are in for a treat and will enjoy one of the great sporting and social occasions of recent times.”

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Galileo Voted into The QIPCO British Champions Series Hall of Fame

The late supersire Galileo (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), a winner of the 2001 G1 Derby, has been induced into the QIPCO British Champion Series Hall of Fame (video) via a public vote. He beat out his fellow Derby-winning half-brother Sea The Stars (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}) and the 1981 Derby victor Shergar (GB) (Great Nephew {GB}). The public was invited to vote on the three Derby winners in recognition of the special year of The Queen's Platinum Jubilee. The Platinum Jubilee Central Weekend celebrations include the G1 Cazoo Derby on June 4.

Susan Magnier, Galileo's co-owner during his racing career, said, “We were thrilled to hear that Galileo has been inducted into [the] QIPCO British Champions Series Hall of Fame. He was a very special horse to everyone here at Coolmore and Ballydoyle and hopefully his legacy will continue for many years to come.

“Given the special year of Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee, we were delighted that the panel focused on Derby winners for the shortlist and that the public vote saw Galileo chosen ahead of two other Epsom luminaries in Sea The Stars and Shergar.”

Also a winner of the G1 Irish Derby and the G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S., the greatest part of Galileo's legacy is as an outstanding sire, sire of sires and as a broodmare sire. The former Coolmore partners' runner has been Champion Sire in Great Britain and Ireland 12 times to date. In addition, he holds the international record of Group/Grade 1 winners at 93 and the international record for black-type winners with 353.

His greatest runner, the undefeated 14-for-14 Frankel (GB), took his first champion sire title from Galileo in 2021. Galileo was euthanised last July.

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Haras de Saint Arnoult’s Larissa Kneip Dies

France's racing and breeding community is in mourning following the passing of Larissa Kneip, breeder, trainer, sales consignor, and the owner of Haras de Saint Arnoult, who died suddenly at home on Tuesday. She was 51.

Originally from Luxembourg, Kneip gave up a career in broadcast journalism to pursue a life with horses, settling near the town of Exmes, where she ran her picturesque Normandy farm in tirelessly successful fashion while wearing a number of different hats.

Active in all divisions of the sales market, from foals to breezers, she also stood a roster of five stallions, including Elarqam (GB), the Group 2-winning son of Frankel (GB) and Attraction (GB). A licensed trainer and pre-trainer, she was represented by her final winner, Charlotte Tagada (Fr), at Chantilly on May 16, while Haras de Saint Arnoult sold a draft of eight 2-year-olds at last week's BBAG Breeze-up Sale in Baden-Baden.

Multi-lingual and ever the enthusiast on all facets of the Thoroughbred, Kneip explained her various roles in an interview in TDN in 2020.

“Haras de Saint Arnoult is a bit of peculiar stud,” she said. “We don't really specialise in one particular thing but we are really trying to produce racehorses and we are producing them right from the start. What do you need to breed a horse? A mare and a stallion: well, we've got mares and we've got stallions. What do you do with the foals? You can either send them to the sales as yearlings or to the breeze-up sales as 2-year-olds, which we have also been doing quite successfully, or you can send them racing.

“I always felt that it was a bit frustrating if you had gone through so much pain and effort to raise them and then they leave and it's up to somebody else to do their racing career, so I decided to take out my trainer's licence so I could follow through with the horses myself until they go racing.”

Kneip's fellow Normandy stud farmer Julian Ince of Haras du Logis paid tribute to his close friend.

He said, “Larissa was passionate about her horses, about her people, and about striving for success. She loved the game and set herself many challenges that most of us wouldn't set ourselves. She will be sadly missed as she was one of a kind and she was a really good friend to so many people.”

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Remembering Lester: A Personal Recollection by John Hammond

It was Wednesday morning, 5 December 1990. The phone rang. 'You running anything at the weekend?'. Inwardly I groaned, I knew what was coming. I was running a handicapper slightly past his best in the 2,100m handicap at Saint-Cloud on the Saturday. An older horse with his issues, not a comfortable ride, Lester had ridden him 11 days earlier when he was a well beaten third. 'Ok, I'll come and ride him'. And so, to my embarrassment, he flew over at his own expense for one, dodgy ride.

It was Lester Piggott who was responsible for my being in France. Returning from America in early 1985, jobless, I had bumped into him and he asked me if I had any plans. I didn't.

'You should go and work for this Fabre guy in France, he's very good, you know.'

He wasn't wrong there. It was the year he was to spend much of riding for André so he kindly made the phone call and got me the job. I got to know him quite well, often ferrying him from the airport to the races in my Austin mini. He was fun, chatty. Those in the car park at the races were always baffled by the mode of transport of this icon of the sport but I think it rather amused him. Lester was never about bling; limousines weren't required to go from A to B.

Returning to Saturday, 8 December 1990. It was a miserable day, raining hail. The old horse cocked his jaw, pulled Lester's arms out, came to win then faded to be third. Returning to the unsaddling enclosure dripping wet, freezing cold, Lester got off and gave the horse a friendly pat before trudging off to the jocks' room. There wasn't much to say.

Back in the car, returning to the airport after his one ride, he said 'He's silly that old horse, he shouldn't pull like that, he could have won, you know.'

I think most jockeys would have used considerably saltier language about the horse or, more so, the fact that he had paid for his own plane ticket and sacrificed a day to come to France for one average ride in shocking weather. But he wasn't unhappy, more the opposite: I had the impression he'd enjoyed his day. It was a month after his famous comeback ride on Royal Academy in the Breeders' Cup and he knew how much he'd missed it.

He had a unique empathy, relationship, with horses. It wasn't sentimental, more mutual respect. He would ask for more when they had more to give but not when a horse was empty. He knew the difference, sometimes being unjustifiably penalised for easing one down. Never did I hear him using pejorative language about a horse that, occasionally for understandable reasons, some do. He liked them.

I feel lucky to have known him.

John Hammond
Chantilly

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