Starspangledbanner

American Belle, a half-sister to Godolphin's four-time Group 1 hero Ombudsman (Night Of Thunder), will be offered during the Tattersalls Online September Sale on September 15-16. The six-year-old mare, by Starspangledbanner, has won twice over seven furlongs. Ombudsman is a dual winner of the Prince Of Wales's Stakes (2025/2026), and he also put his stamp on the Juddmonte International Stakes and Dubai Turf. The pair are out of Syndicate (Dansili), a full-sister to Group 3 winner Runnymede and the multiple stakes winner and group-placed Stipulate. Syndicate's latest offspring include the...

Amazing Journey (Starspangledbanner) has been bought to race for Ciaron Maher in Australia. Formerly trained by Jamie Osborne, his target is the A$10-million Golden Eagle on October 31. Owned by Gallagher Bloodstock for his victory in the £150,000 Moet and Chandon International at Ascot in July, the three-year-old gelding was sold privately afterward. He is traveling to enter quarantine at Harry Charlton's yard, and will travel Down Under with Charlton's G1 Melbourne Cup chance Wine Dark Sea (Ulysses). Osborne told the Press Association: "Will Bourne completed the deal acting for...

6.02 Newmarket, Mdn, 2yo, f, 8fT OH SWEET ADARE (IRE) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) makes her keenly-anticipated debut for the Charlie Appleby stable playing some aces on this card, having topped last year's Tattersalls October Book 2 at 900,000gns. A full-sister to last year's Flying Scotsman winner Avicenna from the family of Zafonic's juvenile champion Xaar, she has just three peers to deal with in the race Evolutionist won 12 months ago.

Owner David Kelly does not profess to have all the answers. However, the results the chartered accountant has been enjoying on the racetrack in recent years suggest that he is asking all of the right questions. Or at least that he is looking in the right places in his pursuit of big-race riches. In an era where big-money owners dominate the top end of the yearling sale market, Kelly has quietly built up a team of horses to take on the powerhouse operations through his own judgment, sound advice from...

   In this series, the TDN takes a look at notable successes of European-based sires in North America. This week's column is highlighted by the victories of Europeans in both the GI Belmont Derby and the GI Belmont Oaks. Coolmore Partners Draw Closer To Record Since changing names to the Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes from the Jamaica Handicap in 2014, the race--which dropped "Invitational" in 2026--has been secured by a combination of the Coolmore partners thrice. With Title Role's nose victory on July 4 (video), the ownership group is now...

Let's not think in terms of the best ever - we all have our personal favourites - or even the best  this season, not yet anyway. Let us instead relish the fact that across the next six weeks, as long as they all remain hale and hearty, we can look forward to seeing Calandagan take on his Japan Cup runner-up Masquerade Ball once more in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, followed by Bow Echo potentially clashing with Notable Speech in his first outing against his elders in...

With the Epsom Classics now in the rearview mirror, the countdown to Royal Ascot will soon be uppermost in everybody's thoughts, most definitely if your name is Michael or Anne Gaffney, the breeders of the hugely exciting Senorita Bonita. Already the Starspangledbanner filly has made headlines once this year when stealing the show at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-up Sale. Consigned on behalf of the Gaffneys by Mark Flannery of Egmont Stud, she fetched fully 350,000gns more than the next top lot when knocked down to Anthony Stroud for 900,000gns, following...

3.18 Nottingham, Mdn, 2yo, f, 5f 8yT SENORITA BONITA (IRE) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) topped the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale at 900,000gns and debuts for Victorious Forever and Simon and Ed Crisford in the maiden won in the last three years by Zelaina, Leovanni and Beautiful Diamond. Jaber Abdullah's Queen Of Christmas (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) also makes her debut, with the Karl Burke-trained €305,000 Arqana Deauville October purchase a half-sister to the Listed-winning dam of last year's Prix du Moulin de Longchamp hero Sahlan (Wootton Bassett).   5.40 Curragh, Mdn, 2yo,...

Golden boy of the week has to be Starspangledbanner (though Wayne Lordan and Karl Burke both deserve consideration for that title). To have had both Cartier champion two-year-olds last year was a big enough feather in his cap but for both Gstaad and Precise to progress into Classic winners in the space of 24 hours at the Curragh cements their sire's position among the elite. A more in-depth look at the Starspangledbanner story to date in TDN back in December put forward the suggestion that the best days were still...

   In this series, the TDN takes a look at notable successes of European-based sires in North America. This week's column is highlighted by the victory of Sandtrap at Aqueduct. Lope De Vega Fillies Capture Aqueduct Affairs Named a TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard in her Salisbury debut for Ralph Beckett in September of 2024, Sandtrap (Lope De Vega) made her American bow a winning one at Aqueduct on April 18 (video). Trained by Chad Brown, the daughter of Zindaya (More Than Ready) races for Bridlewood Farm. Bred by...

3.05 Navan, Listed, 4yo/up, 14fT SCANDINAVIA (Justify) is the day's big news as he returns for Ballydoyle in a race used for several of their leading stayers such as Kyprios, Order Of St George and Yeats. Last year's St Leger and Goodwood Cup hero meets the Leger fifth Carmers (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), Fiona Carmichael's Queen's Vase winner who remains unexposed over these staying trips.   1.55 Navan, Mdn, 2yo, 5f 180yT WEST OF EDEN (IRE) (No Nay Never) is the chosen representative from Ballydoyle in a maiden that has...

With one big puff of the cheeks, Mark Flannery experienced a feeling that most consignors could scarcely imagine at Tattersalls on Wednesday when his Starspangledbanner filly was knocked down to Anthony Stroud for a cool 900,000gns at one of the trickiest Craven Breeze-Up Sales in recent times.  But at around 8pm at Park Paddocks, talk shifted from the war in the Middle East, the uncertain global political landscape or even worse, what the rest of the breeze-up season might look like in Europe. That was thanks to Flannery. For the...