Notable Speech

Over the last three years Frankel (GB) and Dubawi (Ire) have handed the sires' championship back and forth between each other, and they rule supreme as the two most expensive stallions in the world this year at £350,000. While Darley's Dubawi duly provided the winner of the first British Classic of the season when Notable Speech (GB) became his fourth in that particular race - an achievement that is unrivalled in the post-war era - it was Frankel's Juddmonte friend and rival Kingman (GB) who had the bragging rights on...

Aidan O'Brien has suggested that he left City Of Troy (Justify) "too fresh" ahead of what turned out to be a bitterly disappointing return in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday but went on to explain that last season's European Champion Two-Year-Old remains on course to run in the Derby.  City Of Troy trailed home in ninth, beaten 17 lengths by the winner Notable Speech (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), despite being sent off at odds of 4-6 for the 2,000 Guineas. He can now be backed at odds as big...

NEWMARKET, UK -- They came for a coronation and perhaps, when we look back at the end of the season, that's what those packed into the stands and around Newmarket's vast parade ring will have seen. The crown now just rests on a different head to the one we were expecting.  Those who don't appreciate the blustery open swathes of the Rowley Mile are quick to knock the course, but over that same strip last October there had been a truly stellar performance in the Dewhurst by City Of Troy...

6.00 Kempton, Mdn, £7,000, 3yo/up, 8f (AWT) VENETIAN STYLE (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) is Godolphin's 1.8million 2021 Tatts December Foal Sale topper who is making his belated debut in the royal blue. A half-brother to the Group 2 winner and multiple Group 1-placed I Can Fly (GB) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), he is one of two from the Charlie Appleby stable alongside fellow newcomer Notable Speech (GB), another Dubawi and daughter of the G3 UAE Oaks runner-up Swift Rose (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) who is preferred by William Buick.