Thundering On (GB)

Few stables could deal with losing Thundering On from the G1 Juddmonte Irish Oaks picture on the morning of the race, but Joseph O'Brien brushed off that disappointment, saddled Johanna Walsh (Sea The Stars) and enjoyed a clear-cut win regardless. Proving more than an able deputy for the Oaks heroine when registering a four-length success in the Curragh Classic, Wells Watson's Ribblesdale runner-up who was purchased for €460,000 at Goffs Orby Book 1 by Andrew Cary was adding more stardust to her trainer's already stellar campaign. "It was unreal," Dylan...

Shapoor Mistry's Oaks heroine Thundering On (Frankel) has been withdrawn from  Saturday's G1 Juddmonte Irish Oaks at The Curragh. Reportedly off her feed on the morning of the Classic, her absence means that Wathnan's Ribblesdale winner Earth Shot (Time Test) is the likely favourite, with Dylan Browne McMonagle also likely to switch to Joseph O'Brien's second-string Johanna Walsh (Sea The Stars) who was second behind that William Haggas-trained rival at Royal Ascot.  

Shapoor Mistry's Oaks heroine Thundering On (Frankel) will face 10 rivals as she bids for a Classic double in Saturday's G1 Juddmonte Irish Oaks at The Curragh. Disappointing when only fourth in the Pretty Polly last month, the Joseph O'Brien-trained homebred is joined by stablemates Johanna Walsh (Sea The Stars), the Ribblesdale runner-up who races for Wells Watson, and Rebel Moon (Lope De Vega) who defends an unbeaten record for Al Shira'aa Racing after taking the Jannah Rose Stakes. In total, the O'Briens have eight runners with Aidan saddling a quintet...

Benefitting from the below-par effort of Thundering On (Frankel), Estrange (Night Of Thunder) stepped up to achieve Group 1 glory in Saturday's Pretty Polly Stakes at The Curragh. With the Oaks heroine unable to come close to her Epsom standard, it was left to Cheveley Park Stud's five-year-old to take control of the 10-furlong feature and bring it home for David O'Meara and Danny Tudhope. Well-supported into 13-8 second favouritism, the grey, who had finished runner-up in the Yorkshire Oaks and British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes last termm seized...

Shapoor Mistry's G1 Oaks heroine Thundering On (Frankel) will face nine rivals in Saturday's G1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh after declarations for the Paddy Power-sponsored 10-furlong contest were confirmed Thursday morning. The Joseph O'Brien trainee will depart from stall seven, which also housed last year's victrix Whirl (Wootton Bassett) and Mistry's O'Brien-trained 2021 winner Thundering Nights (Night Of Thunder). She will be partnered by Dylan Browne McMonagle and accompanied by Carriganog stablemates Wemightakedlongway (Australia), runner-up in last year's G1 Irish Oaks, and Nyra (Isfahan), who ran third in...

Friday's G1 Betfred Oaks looked a competitive renewal beforehand, but in the end it was Shapoor Mistry's homebred Thundering On (Frankel) who held sway in a show of dominance. Sweeping from last to first with Dylan Browne McMonagle ice-cool careering towards his first Classic success, the well-backed 5-1 shot brushed aside Legacy Link (Dubawi) to win by 3 3/4 lengths. "It was effortless, she's so, so talented," the rider said of the winner who had only been breaking her maiden last month in the Salsabil. "We were coming into the...

A maiden entering Saturday's G3 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Salsabil Stakes at Navan, Shapoor Mistry's Thundering On (Frankel) relished the step up to middle distances to stake her Classic claims. As a daughter of the owner-breeder's Pretty Polly heroine Thundering Nights (Night Of Thunder), the rise to this extended 10-furlong trip was ideal and once Joey Sheridan pressed the button approaching the final furlong the outcome was not in doubt. At the line, the Oaks entry had 3 1/4 lengths to spare over the Donnacha O'Brien-trained Emmeleia (Camelot) as the fillies...