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.

It seems that Sammy Jo Bell will spend a lot more time out of the game than the expected time. This is due to the accident which occurred to her at Carlisle when a rider accidentally fractured her pelvis a week ago. She is now expected to spend six weeks in a wheelchair. Unfortunately that was the time Bell was expected to be out of activity but doctors said surgery wouldn’t be necessary as it was said that a plate would be inserted to reinforce her pelvis. This made the date on which shed be out in action unknown.

Sammy Jo Bell got injured when her mount Duchess reared, departing out of the show ring and fell on her on Thursday. Bell said that there’s nothing she could do to her problem or fasten her healing. She said that the only thing she could do at that particular time was to wait and get on with it. She also added that she will do anything she can to heal quickly as possible because she needed to get back in action. She also said that she hadn’t discussed with the surgeon what she can do and what she can’t do. This is due to the fact that she hadn’t seen the surgeon since the operation. Continuing she said that, though she knows that she can’t do anything with her legs, she doesn’t know if she can do anything with any part of her upper body so as to keep her fitness up. Bell who’s Richard Fahey`s young leaner shown last summer as she became the first female rider to be  coroneted as leading jockey during the Shergar Cup added saying that “There’s never an ideal time to get injured , but the middle of the season had to be the worst.”

She concluded by saying that she’s happy to be alive because she knows something terrible than that could have happened because it was a nasty moment. To sum up everything she assured people that once she’s out of the wheelchair shell get into rehab and try to get back to the game. She ended by saying she didn’t have a target at the moment but was only looking forward to getting better.