Tag: 'Charlie Appleby'

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike was savouring the last few hours of a brief Queenstown getaway on Wednesday before the focus switches to overseeing his team...

Pinatubo, who races for Godolphin out of the Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Charlie Appleby's Newmarket yard, has returned to his best form.

Ghaiyyath has upset champion mare Enable's reappearance in making most of the running to win the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown.

Charlie Appleby is dreaming of a second Melbourne Cup success with Cross Counter after an encouraging run in the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot.

Racing Victoria international scout Paul Bloodworth is optimistic some overseas horses will compete at the spring carnival but he admits it is a long shot.

English trainer Charlie Appleby has only had one starter in Melbourne this spring but could end the carnival on a winning note with two chances...

Cross Counter has finished eighth in his Melbourne Cup defence but jockey William Buick insists he ran a big race after a slow start.

Cross Counter is one of 11 northern hemisphere-trained horses in this year's Melbourne Cup and is striving to become the first dual international winner.

Pinatubo has produced an astonishing performance to land the Group One Vincent O'Brien National Stakes at the Curragh.

Cross Counter has been given 57.5kg for his Melbourne Cup defence while Irish stayer Kew Gardens heads the weights with 58kg.

Charlie Appleby, Tony McEvoy, Patrick Payne, Adam Trinder and Chris Waller have been announced as finalists for the 2018-19 Fred Hoysted Award in Victoria.

Ghaiyyath has staked his claim for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe with a dominant win in the Grosser Preis von Baden at Baden-Baden.

Trainer Charlie Appleby has paid tribute to Masar after confirming the retirement of last year's Derby winner.

Communique has continued his love affair with Newmarket to win the Princess of Wales's Stakes, with Derby winner Masar last of the six runners.

Champion Godolphin sprinter Blue Point will not race again and will join Sheikh Mohammed's stallion roster.

Blue Point has clung on grimly to complete a remarkable Royal Ascot double in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes.

Melbourne Cup winner Cross Counter is on course to clash with Stradivarius in the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot.

Two of Godolphin's UK horses have stepped out at Canterbury ahead of their tilts at the Sydney Cup and All Aged Stakes.

Blair House can wind up a successful spring carnival for trainer Charlie Appleby when he saddles Blair House in the Group One Mackinnon Stakes.

Sheikh Mohammed's first words to trainer Charlie Appleby after winning the Melbourne Cup were - in Arabic - "well done, well done, well done".

Trainer Charlie Appleby says Cross Counter has come through unscathed and in good order following his historic win in the Melbourne Cup.