Author: Suzanne Ashton

Purchased at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint winner BIG EVS is set to line up in the Group 1 King Charles III Stakes at Royal Ascot. A top-class juvenile performer with all four of his victories coming at Stakes level, the Mick Appleby-trained colt returns to the royal meeting where connections enjoyed success in the Windsor Castle Stakes last season before tasting Group level success domestically and capping off his stellar season with a memorable victory at the Breeders’ Cup at Santa…

Legendary racing trainer Mick Channon has hailed the Irish as “the best in the world” at breeding great racehorses and that Royal Ascot was always a meeting he would target with his horses as a trainer.  Channon, a former England striker with 46 caps for his country who turned to racehorse training full-time in the 1990’s, handed the keys over to his West Ilsey yard to son Jack in 2022 as he took a step back from the sport.  Ahead of Royal Ascot next week, Channon – who trained 19 Group…

Amo Racing & Giselle De Aguiar’s unbeaten Listed National Stakes winner Enchanting Empress is bound for Royal Ascot with a number of races being weighed up for the exciting two-year-old, who was purchased at the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale for 62,000 guineas from Llety Farms. The daughter of SERGEI PROKOFIEV is trained by Dominic Ffrench Davis at Amo Racing’s Felstead Court Stables in Lambourn, and Amo Racing’s Operations Manager Amy Drummond reflected on team Amo’s initial impressions of the filly: From the day we bought her at the Somerville Yearling Sale, the…