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Hever Sprint Stakes
The Hever Sprint Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years and over. It is run at Southwell over a distance of 4 furlongs and 215 yards (), and it is scheduled to take place each year in February or March. The race was first run in 2003 at Lingfield Park, and was awarded Listed status in 2007. It was switched to Southwell in 2024. Records Most successful horse (2 wins): * Arganil – ''2009, 2010'' Leading jockey (3 wins): * Neil Callan – ''King Orchisios (2007), Arganil (2009, 2010)'' Leading trainer (3 wins): * Kevin Ryan – ''King Orchisios (2007), Arganil (2009, 2010)'' Winners See also * Horse racing in Great Britain * List of British flat horse races References *Racing Post ''Racing Post'' is a British daily horse racing, greyhound racing, and sports betting publisher published in print and digital formats. It is printed in tabloid format from Monday to Sunday. , it has an av ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwell Racecourse
Southwell Racecourse ( , ) is a thoroughbred horse racing venue located east of Southwell in Nottinghamshire, England. It is one of only six racecourses in the UK to have an all-weather track and is one of three courses in the UK with a Tapeta surface. Southwell previously used a track surface of Fibresand, a mixture of sand and wispy fibres before changing to Tapeta (a mixture of sand, wax and fibre) in 2021. National Hunt racing on a turf course also takes place at Southwell. In 2007, the Great Yorkshire Chase (now Skybet Chase) was held at Southwell, while Doncaster Racecourse was closed for redevelopment. Southwell racecourse will always be associated with female jockey Hayley Turner, who grew up locally and had her first job in racing with a trainer based adjacent to the track. The racecourse was forced to close temporarily in December 2012 when flooding caused major damage to both the track and the buildings on site. Meetings scheduled for the all-weather flat course w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Callan
Neil Callan is an Irish horse racing jockey. He was the British flat racing Champion Apprentice in 1999. He has been ranked in the top echelon of riders on the UK jockeys' championship and has finished runner-up in 2005 (151 wins) and 2007 (170 wins). In 2010/2011 he rode 5 winners during his first three-month stint in Hong Kong. In seasons 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 he was the Bahrain Champion Jockey. Major wins Great Britain * Fillies' Mile - (1) - ''Hibaayeb (2009)'' * Middle Park Stakes - (1) - ''Amadeus Wolf (2005)'' * Nunthorpe Stakes - (1) - ''Borderlescott (2009)'' * Queen Anne Stakes - (1) - ''Triple Time (2023)'' * Racing Post Trophy - (1) - ''Palace Episode (2005)'' * Sun Chariot Stakes - (1) - ''Fonteyn (2022)'' ---- Germany * Bayerisches Zuchtrennen - (1) - ''Pressing (2009)'' ---- Hong Kong * Centenary Sprint Cup - (1) - ''Peniaphobia (2017)'' * Hong Kong Champions & Chater Cup - (2) - ''Blazing Speed (2014,2016)'' * Queen Elizabeth II Cup - (1) - ''Blazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Morris
Luke Morris (born 20 October 1988) is an English jockey who competes in flat racing. Background Morris comes from a racing background, his grandfather Joe Tate, uncle Jason Tate and cousin Ryan Tate all being jockeys. He was born in Oxford and moved to Newmarket as a child. He began riding out for Michael Bell while still at school. He completed a course at the British Racing School and became apprenticed to Bell. Career Morris rode his first winner in November 2005 and his first big race victory came on Juniper Girl in the Northumberland Plate in 2007. He gained his first Group race win on Gilt Edge Girl in the Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes at Leopardstown in June 2010. In October 2010 Gilt Edge Girl gave Morris his first Group 1 victory when they won the Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp at Longchamp in Paris. In 2012 he became first jockey for Newmarket trainer Sir Mark Prescott. It was the Prescott trained Marsha who provided Morris with his first British Group 1 victory, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Appleby (racehorse Trainer)
Charles Appleby (born 5 July 1975) is a British thoroughbred racehorse trainer who is employed by Godolphin and trains horses at their Moulton Paddocks stable in Newmarket, Suffolk. He is the World Trainer of 2021 in the TRC Global Rankings and the British flat racing Champion Trainer in the 2021, 2022 season. Major wins Great Britain * 1000 Guineas - (1) - '' Desert Flower (2025) '' * 2000 Guineas Stakes - (3) - '' Coroebus (2022), Notable Speech (2024), Ruling Court (2025)'' * British Champions Sprint Stakes - (1) - '' Creative Force (2021)'' * Coronation Cup - (1) - '' Ghaiyyath (2020)'' * Dewhurst Stakes - (3) - '' Pinatubo (2019), Native Trail (2021), Shadow of Light (2024)'' * Platinum Jubilee Stakes / Diamond Jubilee Stakes - (2) - '' Blue Point (2019), Naval Crown (2022)'' * Eclipse Stakes - (2) - '' Hawkbill (2016), Ghaiyyath (2020)'' * The Derby - (2) - '' Masar (2018), Adayar (2021)'' * Fillies' Mile - (1) - '' Desert Flower (2024) '' * Futurity Trophy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Kirby
Adam Kirby (born August 1988) is a retired Group 1-winning British jockey. He was brought up in Kirtling near Newmarket, on the Cambridgeshire/Suffolk border, where he still lives, and started riding out for James Fanshawe aged 12. He served his apprenticeship with Michael Wigham in Newmarket and won with his first professional ride on Broughton Knows at Lingfield on 1 October 2004. In his early career, he became first jockey to Walter Swinburn until Swinburn quit training. For Swinburn, he won the prestigious handicap, the John Smith's Cup, at York in 2006. Sprint handicapper Out After Dark also gave him some early big victories, including the 2005 Portland Handicap at Doncaster. Over the next few years, he steadily picked up more winners. He rode over a hundred winners in both 2011 and 2012, and became the 2012/13 all-weather champion, with 91 winners, after finishing third the previous two seasons. In 2011, he also built a partnership with top-class miler Excelebrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Dwyer
Martin Joseph Dwyer (born 28 June 1975 in Aintree, Liverpool, Merseyside) is a retired English jockey who competed in flat racing, winning the 2006 Epsom Derby on Sir Percy and the 2003 Epsom Oaks on Casual Look. Career Dwyer, who was born in Liverpool, was apprenticed to trainer Ian Balding in Kingsclere, Hampshire. His first winner was Susquehanna Days at Warwick on 9 July 1993 and his first Group race winner was Halmahera in the Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes in 1997. On 6 June 2003, Dwyer rode Casual Look, trained by Andrew Balding to victory in the Epsom Oaks. It was his first Group 1 win. In 2006 he achieved a second Classic success when Sir Percy, trained by Marcus Tregoning, won the Epsom Derby. Dwyer spent several winters in India, winning the 2012 Indian Derby on In the Spotlight. His association with India ended in controversy. He received a 56-day ban for not riding a horse on its merits in February 2013. A recording then emerged of a 2010 telephone conversatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Harley (jockey)
Martin Harley (born 19 July 1989 in County Donegal, Ireland) is a Group 1 winning Irish jockey. Career Harley had spells as stable jockey for Mick Channon and Marco Botti, before turning freelance. His first Group 1 victory was for Channon on Samitar in the Irish 1,000 Guineas in May 2012. For Botti, he won the Prix Royal Oak the following year on Tac De Boistron, which helped him to a yearly prize money total of over £1 million for the first time. His breakthrough triumph was the 2015 King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot, on the Robert Cowell-trained Goldream. He won by a short head. He won the Prix de l'Abbaye with another narrow victory on the same horse later in the season. In March 2014, in a minor race at Lingfield, he clipped the heels of a rival on Red Art, and was catapulted into the ground, at almost 40 mph. He suffered a broken neck and several broken ribs in an injury that was considered potentially career-ending. In 2016, he built a successful partner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Drowne
Steve Drowne, (born 10 December 1971),''Racing Post'', London, 10 December 2021, page 18. is a former professional flat racing jockey. Growing up, he attended Newmarket Racing School. His father was a Devon farmer. Drowne is one of racing's most respected senior riders. He had a long association with trainer Roger Charlton. Steve retired at the end of 2017 and became a stipendiary steward. Major wins Great Britain * Cheveley Park Stakes - (1) - ''Queens Logic (2001)'' * July Cup – (1) – '' Sakhee's Secret (2007) '' * Nunthorpe Stakes – (1) – '' Jwala (2013)'' ---- Ireland * Moyglare Stud Stakes – (1) – ''Mail The Desert (2002)'' ---- France * Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp The Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to thoroughbreds aged two years or older. It is run at Longchamp over a distance of 1,000 metres (about 5 furlongs ... - (2) - ''Patavellian (2003), Avonbridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Haggas
William Haggas is a British Thoroughbred racehorse trainer, based at Somerville Lodge stables in Newmarket, Suffolk. He is the son-in-law of the multiple champion jockey Lester Piggott. He was educated at Harrow and played cricket at Lord's for Harrow against Eton in 1977, 1978 and 1979, captaining the side in the 1979 match. He started his working life in his father's textile factory, but quit after three months and headed to Newmarket. Before taking out a licence in his own right, he learnt his trade with John Winter and Mark Prescott. He trained his first winner in 1987. As of June 2013, he had trained two British Classic winners – Shaamit, winner of the 1996 Derby, and Dancing Rain, winner of the 2011 Oaks. The first of these came when he had just 40 horses in his stable. The second gave him the distinction of having two wins from his first two runners in the Epsom Classics. His third, Vow, came fourth in the 2012 Oaks. Largely thanks to the exploits of Dancing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Fortune (jockey)
James Joseph Fortune (born 14 June 1972) is a retired Irish thoroughbred jockey who in a 30-year career won over 1,800 races, including 16 Group 1s, and 1 British Classic, the 2007 St Leger. Career Fortune was apprenticed to Mike O'Neill and Luca Cumani. He was first licensed in 1987 and his first win came on 29 July 1988 at Thirsk riding Hitchenstown for Eric Alston. It was O'Neill who brought Fortune over to Britain, and his first major victory was on O'Neill's Joveworth at 50/1 in the 1989 Ayr Gold Cup, while still an apprentice, claiming 5lb. In 1990 he became Champion Apprentice with 47 wins. Later, Fortune became jockey for David Barron, then took a retainer with Jack Ramsden after Kieren Fallon left. This led to him becoming the retained jockey for Robert Sangster in 1998, when Peter Chapple-Hyam was his trainer. His first Group 1 win was on Commander Collins in that season's Racing Post Trophy. Following that, he rode for Paul Cole. For seven years he was asso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Arcs (horse)
Les Arcs (24 April 2000 - 8 November 2022) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who was bred in the United States and trained in the United Kingdom. After racing with mixed results over a variety of distances (and an attempt at hurdling), the gelding emerged as a top-class performer when switched to sprint distances. In 2006 he won six races including the Golden Jubilee Stakes and the July Cup, both Group One races and was the highest-rated European sprinter of the year. He was also named Horse of the Year by the Maryland Horse Breeders Association. In all, Les Arcs won twelve races and was placed ten times from forty-two starts between May 2003 and August 2010. Background Les Arcs is a dark bay or brown gelding with no white markings bred by John Moran's Elk Manor Farm at North East, in Cecil County, Maryland. He was from the first crop of foals sired by Arch, a Kentucky-bred stallion who won the Super Derby in 1998. Arch's other major winners include Blame, Archarcharch (Arkansas Derby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Carson (jockey)
Stephen Carson (born 4 June 1979 in Ballymoney, County Antrim) was a flat racing jockey who rode in England. Stephen started his career as apprentice to Michael Grassick on the Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland after graduating from RACE (the Race Apprentice Centre of Education). Tartan Lane supplied Stephen with his first winner when taking the County Wexford Publicans Apprentice Maiden at Wexford on 26 July 1996. Stephen joined Eric Wheeler's yard near Reading in England in the summer of 1997 and was successful on his first ride for the yard when scoring on Dark Menace at Brighton. He quickly struck up a successful partnership with stable star Dancing Mystery and partnered the gelding to 21 successes. Stephen was formerly stable jockey to Eve Johnson Houghton and partnered his biggest winner to date when riding Tout Seul to victory in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes for the trainer's father Fulke in October 2002. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |