Amo Racing

Following on from a record-breaking Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, the strength of the yearling market was again on full display in Deauville. From a €4.6-million record-breaker to 10 seven-figure yearlings and another dominant showing from Ecurie des Monceaux, here are the key takeaways from three days of selling at Arqana. 1). €4.6m French Record The French yearling record was smashed when Coolmore paid €4.6 million for Ecurie des Monceaux's Wootton Bassett colt, eclipsing the €3m record set by a Monceaux-consigned Night Of Thunder filly last year. Coolmore had sold the colt...

Ladies first in the GI Christophe Clement Stakes. Survie (Ire) (Churchill {Ire}) had to close into a glacial pace, but roared home like they'd unleashed her at the top of the stretch, and posted a glorious win to secure an automatic berth to the GI Breeders' Cup Turf at Keeneland. An elite runner in her European home base, the Michael Tabor colorbearer came into the Christophe Clement off a victory in the GII Glens Falls Stakes. With her Group 1 placings in France, Ireland, and Saudi Arabia, and a victory...

Returning to the scene of his finest hour on Sunday, Amo Racing's Phoenix Stakes hero Power Blue (Space Blues) duly regained the winning thread taking on his elders for the first time in The Curragh's G2 Minstrel Stakes. Handed some tough assignments over a mile this term, the powerhouse sprinter juvenile of 2025 who memorably upstaged True Love here in his Group 1 had run with credit to be fourth in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James's Palace and was 11-10 to make the most of this drop in...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - It wasn't a total happy ending after Friday's frightening spill on opening day of the 46-day Saratoga meet. I Love Giraffes (Charlatan) came out of the incident with a fractured hip and will be sidelined for at least four months, trainer Chad Summers said Saturday morning. And Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano, who was also involved in the spill, will miss the rest of the week and probably all of next week. "I don't know if she will ever run again," Summers said of his...

Another absorbing day of action can be expected at Royal Ascot on Friday where the big match-up between Guineas winners True Love and Precise in the Coronation Stakes takes centre stage. Here are five things to look out for on Friday. Donnacha O'Brien Has Big Chance Of Joining Aidan And Joseph On Scoresheet One of the stories of the week has been the red-hot form of Aidan and Joseph O'Brien respectively. Donnacha could well join his father and brother on the scoresheet for the week on Friday given he has...

MADELEINE SWANN (Girvin--Jump Up, by Jump Start) made her first start as the 2-5 choice against three others here. The filly exited the gate and vied for control up the backstretch. Rolling along nicely through the far turn, the 2-year-old was briefly confronted by Midnight Voodoo (Sea Wizard), but the chalk zoomed home to graduate by five lengths. The winner is a half-sister to Amy's Challenge (Artie Schiller), MSW & MGISP, $687,273. Jump Up handed Madeleine Swann a full-sister Mar. 2. 2nd-Monmouth, $48,150, Msw, 6-6, 2yo, f, 4 1/2f, :53.07,...

Kia Joorabchian has poured cold water on any potential severing of ties between trainer Robson Aguiar after the Brazilian native claimed he had lost at least 10 Amo Racing-trained runners on Monday.  The Amo boss went as far as saying he was "shocked" by the trainer's comments and refuted any talk of grumblings between the pair during racing at Naas on Sunday.  It was suggested that Aguiar was informed of Joorabchian's decision to take horses away from the stable shortly after the trainer enjoyed a one-two in the five-furlong conditions...

The word was out for Night Of Thunder's daughter Silent Beauty at Yarmouth on Wednesday and Amo Racing's €1million Goffs Orby Book 1 buy lived up to the hype to become her sire's seventh TDN Rising Star, Presented by Hagyard. Sent off the 5-4 favourite for the six-furlong two-year-old fillies' maiden on the rain-hit fixture, the Kevin Philippart De Foy-trained daughter of the Matron Stakes heroine No Speak Alexander (Shalaa) cruised near the pace throughout before being given the office by David Egan two out. Soon clear, the diminutive starlet...

One of Frankel's plethora of TDN Rising Stars, Amo Racing's 1.1million gns Tattersalls October Book 1 purchase Ancient Egypt served notice that he is a genuine Derby contender in Friday's Listed Newmarket Stakes. All at sea when last seen trailing Bow Echo and co in the Royal Lodge here, the Charlie Johnston-trained relative of the brilliant Midday was able to bowl along in front of My Love Is King (Kingman) as they raced apart from the other three. Maintaining the gallop down into the dip and up the other side,...

Saturday's two-year-old maiden at Navan boasted Charles Darwin, Camille Pissarro, River Tiber and Aesop's Fables as it's last four winners and the latest renewal taken by Tribeca (Blue Point) will be worth further study. "He's a nice horse. He's still babyish, he's still green and I don't know how quick he is yet," trainer Robson De Aguiar said. "He's an end-of-April foal and he has a lot to improve. A big, strong horse and I'd say he has a bright future. He has a very good mentality for a Blue...

Trainer Michael O'Callaghan described the sliding figures at the Goffs Breeze-Up Sale on Wednesday as "refreshing" for buyers as Tally-Ho Stud once again dominated at the top end of a polarised market when selling a Mehmas colt to Anthony Stroud at £880,000. Amo Racing and Richard Brown, who filled the role as underbidder, were involved in the running on the Mehmas colt who was out on his own as the most expensive horse sold at this year's sale. Still, he fell £120,000 short of the record-breaking Mehmas colt [Rapid Force]...

Kia Joorabchian has outlined shopping plans for this week's Goffs Breeze-Up Sale, where he says the focus will be on securing colts that Freemason Lodge-based trainer Kevin Philippart de Foy can point towards Royal Ascot.  The Amo Racing boss was a high-profile absentee from the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale last week. Instead, he elected to make the trip to Ocala for the OBS breeze-up sale.  His no-show at Tattersalls, where he spent over £3 million on seven horses last year, was keenly felt by a market that returned to 2024...