Hayley Turner turned what is expected to be a brief comeback into an immediate success when riding Flying Sparkle to victory at Windsor on Monday night. The 34-year-old jockey, who retired at the end of 2015 and is now principally employed as a broadcaster, nevertheless seems to have some trouble staying out of the saddle and is back in action for the second consecutive summer. Hayley Turner’s Shergar Cup triumph boosts Ascot event’s success story Read more Her appearance at Windsor was supposedly just a warm-up before her participation in the inaugural Lady Jockeys’ Thoroughbred World Championship, to take place near Stockholm on Tuesday night. But Turner did rather more than just blow the cobwebs away, taking up the running with two furlongs to go and pushing her two?year-old mount into a clear lead that she never relinquished. It was not quite
Ryan Braun Authentic Jersey the outcome Turner expected, judging by her contribution to a press conference in Stockholm less than an hour before the Windsor race, when she spoke to assembled media by phone. Asked about Flying Sparkle’s chances, Turner sighed and said: “She hasn’t run before; she’ll obviously need the education. Michael Bell’s horses don’t often win first time out unless they’re really, really good. But it’s not a strong race and I’m hoping for her to run well.” Afterwards, clearly elated Turner described the win on her first ride for 11 months as “fantastic”. She said: “I train very hard at home with hill runs, I’m in the gym all the time and I ride out but you can’t really beat race-riding. I was worried when I got down to the start I was blowing but she made it easy for me. “I’ve got five rides in Sweden so I will be blowing even harder tomorrow. I’ve enjoyed the time out I’ve had. I’ve been able to do different stuff and learn new things, so it’s been fun. I’m just lucky Michael Bell had the confidence to put me back up.” Another jockey being put back up is Harry Bentley, who has recovered the ride on the top-class sprinter Limato. Henry Candy’s horse was partnered by Ryan Moore in the Diamond Jubilee at Royal Ascot but Moore is unlikely to be available for the July Cup a week on Saturday, with the result that Bentley has been hired once more. Silvestre de Sousa has landed the ride on a horse worthy of his skills, having been booked to ride the classy Eminent in the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown on Saturday. However, the former champion jockey’s delight comes at the expense of the reigning champion, Jim Crowley, who has lost the
http://www.authenticmilwaukeebrewers.com/Scooter-Gennett-Jersey mount because he is unable to commit to the horse. Crowley is the retained rider for Hamdan al Maktoum and, while the Sheikh has no horses among the 16 entrants remaining in the Eclipse after the latest declarations, he may require Crowley to ride elsewhere on Saturday afternoon. Silvestre de Sousa on top of the pile after riding the highs and lows Read more “We don’t know for sure whether Jim would be available,” said Martyn Meade, the trainer of Eminent, “as obviously he is committed to riding for Sheikh Hamdan and we wanted to have some certainty. “I discussed it with the owner and we decided that a change might be the way to go. Hopefully Silvestre will come and have a sit on the horse this week; that would be the plan. All the work is done so he doesn’t need to do any work on him but hopefully he’ll have a sit on him.” Crowley may very well feel he has done nothing wrong on Eminent, on whom he sprang an 8-1 surprise in the Craven Stakes at Newmarket in April. The combination was unable to build on that success when sixth in the 2000 Guineas or fourth in the Derby, in which they were beaten by less than two lengths after being squeezed up by rivals in the closing stages. Still Crowley’s retainer ensures him other opportunities at a high level. Advertisement De Sousa, while the most
http://www.authenticsandiegopadres.com/Cory-Spangenberg-Jersey prolific winning jockey in Britain this summer, has struggled to connect with high-profile horses and went winnerless through Royal Ascot. His Sagaro Stakes success on Sweet Selection in May has been his only Group-race victory in Britain in the past year. But he is setting such a scorching pace in the race to be this year’s champion jockey that the bookmakers make him no bigger than a 1-5 shot to wrest back the crown he lost to Crowley last year. Crowley is next in the betting at 12-1. A recent article on the Thoroughbred Racing Commentary asked: “Is there a more underrated jockey anywhere?” than De Sousa and suggested the answer was no, pointing out he had ridden 149 more winners over the past decade than the odds of his mounts suggested was likely, a better record than any British-based rival. In a 2015 interview with The Guardian, De Sousa described his frequent disappointment when contemplating the quality of his mounts for the following day. “Sometimes my heart even stops beating for a couple of seconds. I say: ‘Jesus – no favourites again.’ You look at 20-1 shots, 16-1 if you are lucky.” Eminent is unlikely to start favourite for the Eclipse but he is prominent in the betting at odds of 9-2. Cliffs Of Moher, the Derby runner-up, is 3-1 favourite ahead of the 4-1 about Barney Roy, winner of the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot. Meanwhile the British Horseracing Authority said it could say no more about the case of Anseanachai Cliste, withdrawn before a race at the Cheltenham Festival because officials could not be sure he had received only normal feed and water that day. A report on Monday made allegations about the case but the BHA said its investigation was continuing and it was not prepared to say more at this stage. Stephen McConville, the Armagh-based trainer of Anseanachai Cliste, also declined to comment. Only nine days after he had been due to run in the Foxhunters Chase at Cheltenham, Anseanachai Cliste won a ?13,000 pot in the Ulster National at
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