Aiden O’ Brien received a fifth victory in the Curragh Classic as a stablemate and odds-on favorite after Seventh Heaven bounced back from a substandard effort in the Investec Oaks. Song also completed the race well beaten. The winner finished in a 14-1 victory and scored decisively from British raiders Architecture and Harlequeen in second and third. This is after he extended clear under Seamie Heffernan.  In a statement O’ Brien said that Seamie had a second pick and wanted to ride Seventh Heaven after Ryan picked Even Song. He was right when he thought that the Curragh would suit Song better than Epsom.

They are even considering sending her to the Yorkshire Oaks since she has been working in a very good manner. She even enjoyed the ground, O’ Brien stated that they had always considered her a high class filly.  Following her first win at the highest level, Paddy Power made Seventh Heaven a 5-1 joint favorite for the Yorkshire Oaks. O’ Brien has been training four runners with Pretty Perfect being among them. Perfect made sure that a descent pace was maintained in the race. Aboard the Investec Oaks Frank Dettori is the one who took the glory. Architecture had two furlongs to go. Heffernan had the race covered aboard Seventh Heaven. He managed to quicken up well in the last furlong and managed to score a convincing win.

Even Song got held up in the late run but did not quicken in the home straight. Moore managed to ease himself off the Ribblesdale winner. O’ Brien blamed himself for training the filly too hard for the Ribblesdale. He was however positive she would manage to come out from the set back. The trainer of the runner-up Architecture, Hugo Palmer commented saying that even though they did not win, their filly had managed to run another great race. The filly had only been beaten narrowly in the Lingfield Oaks Trial. He added that Architecture deserved to win in a Group 1 after she raced in Epsom. They are considering sending for the German Oaks even though she is in the Yorkshire Oaks.

There was little response as the daughter of Teofilo was pushed along by Andrea Atzeni. This made the Italian Rider allow her to make her way home at the back of the field.

Saratoga race course is rated among the best tracks in America. It’s history, aura and glamour is incomparable. America has very few such fascinating tracks. It fully justifies it’s appellation(s) ‘The Spa’ and ‘Graveyard of Champions’.

It’s been a little over 150years since the Saratoga race course was opened in 1863 and is so far the third oldest track in America after Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack and Freehold Raceway. This thoroughbred horse racing track is uniquely and strategically located in Saratoga Springs, New York and can hold up to fifty thousand people. Some of the great amusements of Saratoga Springs include the National Museum of racing and the Saratoga Battlefield. The first Saratoga thoroughbred meet lasted only four days. The meet has progressively increased over the years to 40days of racing.

On 22^nd July, this year’s meet will kick off and conclude on 5^th September, Labor Day. Its scheduled to commence with an opening day ceremony and expected to bear pleasant and exciting moments through the 40days. With 69 stakes races, this year’s meet has captivated the finest horses in America. High grate and first rate runners will be competing. It is unlikely that there will be second rate and amateurish horses on the grounds. Some adrenaline rush for the summer!

The two major races of the meet will be experienced on 6^th August and 27^th August, The Whitney Stakes and The Travers Stakes respectively. They are both worth a prize of 1.25million dollars each given that they are first grade races. There will be other interesting races and competitions through the 40days of the meet that are inclusive.

The Saratoga race course is one the historic races that is a must see.

A new booming voice will be heard by fans of horse racing this summer. This new voice is John lies`, who’ll call the race at Fair Meadow on Thursday. Lies had been hired earlier as a dual position at Will Rogers and Fair Meadows. He serves as announcer and a secretary too on those two tracks. After 11 years of serving the Lone Star Park, Lies left to accept his new position. His career as an announcer began in Lone Star back in 2005.

Lies said that the whole transition of leaving Lone Star pack was his biggest change. To say goodbye to a park that had become part of his life. He concluded by saying that it had been his starting point and that it was a good job and that is how life is. Lies call to be an announcer came by when he saw Trevor Denman. When he saw how he announces, he knew what he wanted to become like him. Lies said that when he met Trevor at the age of ten, his dream was set off and decide that he’ll be an announcer.

Tulsa gave Lies a chance of becoming a secretary. He`s responsible for every activity that happens in Fair Meadow. Lies said that, when people see the horse’s numbers, jockeys, names that entire staff have to be done by several people and that he’s the director of those activities. Lies is also responsible for organizing specific races ,writing tracks conditions, and preparing races which agents want to train their horses.

Fair Meadow plans to start live races from June 22 to July 13.12 races will take place each night. Five Thoroughbreds, two paint , five Quarter Horse and lastly Appaloosa. The races will take a maximum of 25 minutes. Admission to the public will be free. Lies said that this being his first game, he is eager to see what happens in the track and the kind of people that will come to see him announce. Lies also said that the length of the track in Fair meadow sets the difference between it and other Tracks in the region.

His announcing style is just like that of Trevor, only that it doesn’t have the South African accent. He’ll try to announce like Trevor in the following form:”is the race moving quickly? How’s the favorite horse running? Lies say that his announcing is conversational, something he likes about it.

Sean Levey is by far the most joyous racer there is. This is after he came fifth in position in the Investec Derby supplementary entry Humphrey Bogart. Though the owner didn’t return the whole bunch of money as expected, at least he was happy. He failed to return 75,000 Euros because he got 41,560.50 in return. Levey said that although he didn’t finish first what really thrilled him was the ambience as the race begun and ended. Trainer Richard Hannon was very proud of him as he looked at the Irish Derby and Royal Ascot because he had taken a massive step up.

Simcock was very pleased by Aglometers outcome. His trainer said though he lacked acceleration at the beginning of the race and during the race he managed not to fall and stay at the end. And at the end he managed to gallop to the line even though it was already past time. Sheikh Hamdans racing manager said that Qipco 2,000 didn’t do his best during the much. He said that was so because they had worked him up over a mile and a half the other day and he did pretty well compared to what he did during the game. He couldn’t explain the reason why he came that position though he had done everything.

Ulysses emerged position 12. Michael Strutes who`s the trainer of Ulysses was very disappointed by this outcome. Jockey Andera  Atzeni explained how Ulysses had travelled nicely into the race but on reaching near the finish line he felt the ground a little. This made his speed decelerate and thus was defeated by the rest. Jockey continued by saying that he thinks Ulysses need nicer ground which won’t affect his galloping stamina or lose balance. Cloth of star emerged position eight and Moonlight Magic came last.

The horse racing event did not go too well on Saturday. It was to be the 141^st racing of the Preakness Stakes which was to be held on Saturday. Nyquist who is a recognized champion was to try his best to retain his record in time for the Triple Crown race at Belmont which will be held in three weeks’ time. At 6:45pm past the racing time the media sent out alerts that there were two dead horses in the first four races. This came shortly after the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced about the two deaths. Roy and Gretchen Jackson watched Barbaro one of their horses suffer a broken leg and later get euthanized after eight months in the Preakness Stakes and another one who also broke their leg in Pimlico’s turf course and then put down immediately.

Homeboykris who is nine-years old came first in the first race and later collapsed and died after suffering cardiovascular failure. Preakiness has been mentioned twice in 2016 by the National Public Radio website, in Kentucky Derby and the other on Saturday. Links were also available on Twitter and Facebook which talked about horse injury. People were for the idea of cancelling the Preakiness event, with the argument that it was not very safe. The morning after the race, Keith Desormeaux who is the trainer of Exaggerator was asked whether he was okay running his horse even though he was aware of the consequences.

It is risky trying to run the horses at this particular moment after what happened to Homeboykris who was a nine-year old horse and who ran 63 races, and won four of his last six races. His recent owner had wanted the horse to retire safely after his racing days were over. Pramedya who was a four-year old and owned by the people who bred her had only run five times and won twice. Unfortunately, the reports on horse fatalities are not really concerns about the animals’ welfare but a way of making news, especially if the animals suffer during major competition events. News reporters rarely report on safety measures taken on racing grounds.

Media is supposed to cover great animal events such as horse racing, rather than focus too much on tragedy. They should be able to dig deep and ask meaningful questions and also make sure the horses involved in horse racing are well taken care of.

Frankel’s offspring will be making his first performance on the field at Newbury on Friday. This comes four years after Frankel retired at racing and he was one of the best horses to ever take part in horse racing. Frankel made his first racing performance as a stallion at Khalid Abdullah’s Banstead Manor stud where he sired 111 foals. In his racing years he always took the first position and he retired undefeated in his 14 start races. Cunco, who was the first of his offsprings will be the first to make it to the race tracks. The pony is being trained by John Gosden for the Chilean owner of Don Alberto stable will start his racing career in the 2^nd division of the Welcome to the Starlight Race Day Maiden Stakes at Newbury.

Canford Cliffs was a previous winner of the £10,000 award. The stallion was able to complete his final start in the second position, shortly after Frankel in a Sussex Stakes challenge that was publicized as the Duel on the Downs. Cunco was sired on January 11, 2014 at Coolmore stud. The mare who sired Cunco was Chrysanthemum who was one of the mares who won the multiple group-winning Danehill dancers.  Cunco was presented for sale at Tattersalls October Sales in 2015 but was not bought at 280,000gns. His trainer, Gosden said that Cunco was ready to race. He added that even though Cunco is a small horse he is performing quite remarkably.

He added that the rains were hindering some activities but he was positive that if things were well regulated they would help him out. Frankel has a covering amount of £125,000 but the Don Alberto squad has been major clients of Frankel. They have managed to place him at the center of a drive in order to become international players in the racing and bloodstock world. Don Alberto’s owners, Mr. and Mrs. Solari managed to purchase Vinery Farm in Kentucky which was renamed Haras Don Alberto in the year 2013. They have managed to sire from Frankel ten more mares and they will be going for training in Australia.

Master craftsman, Henry the navigator, Holy Roman Emperor, Dylan Thomas and Rock of Gibraltar during shuttle visits are one of the Coolmore stallions in South America owned by Don Alberto. Cunco’s name was derived from a city in Cautin Province in Araucania region of Chile, and the name means clear water.