ROYAL ASCOT started yesterday as scheduled in the racing calendar but behind closed doors, so Solario Racing hosted a “Royal Ascot At Home” and we were delighted that the event raised £300 for the local homeless charity, DENS. There was no crowd, no royal procession or pageantry, the Queen missed Royal Ascot for the first time in… Read more »
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“ROYAL ASCOT AT HOME” COURTESY OF SOLARIO RACING
ROYAL ASCOT, the greatest flat meeting in the world, will start next Tuesday 16 June as scheduled, despite the pandemic. While the calendar scheduling of the prestigious royal meeting hasn’t changed, it will certainly lack all pomp and circumstance. No Her Majesty or royal carriages, no fanfare, no Winner’s Enclosure ceremonies and no alcohol-imbued singing around the Bandstand at… Read more »
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DOVER LIGHT FIRST STABLE WINNER SINCE RESUMPTION
DOVER LIGHT was the first winner for the yard since the resumption of racing last Monday when belying his 33/1 starting price at Lingfield yesterday afternoon. Since racing started back again at Newcastle, there there have been nine and ten race cards at two and then three meetings a day but Dover Light was only the yard’s… Read more »
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ROYAL DOLLAR CELEBRATED VIA WHATSAPP!
ROYAL DOLLAR is the latest name on the Solario Racing roll of honour after the Wootton Bassett filly was named today, via WhatsApp! We live in extraordinary times and that means adapting. Normally, there would have been a full-on Naming Day with a visit to the stables, a glass of Champagne to toast the new name,… Read more »
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NEWCASTLE HERALDS RESUMPTION OF RACING TOMORROW!
IT’S OFFICIAL – racing is back! After a 76-day absence, the resumption of racing kicks off with a ten-race card at Newcastle tomorrow, albeit behind closed doors. While some 369 horses were entered at the six-day stage on Tuesday and 120 horses were successfully declared at the new 72-hour stage on Friday, the Government did not officially sanction the… Read more »
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RACING TO RESUME AT NEWCASTLE ON JUNE 1ST
RACING is set to resume in the UK at Newcastle on Monday 1st June if the betting exchanges are an accurate guide. It is 4/11 that racing resumes on or before the first day of next month and if indeed Newcastle goes ahead, it will be the first race meeting in Britain in 76 days… Read more »
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STAFF ARE “POSITIVE AND READY TO CRACK ON”
SOPHIE RALSTON, the yard’s five pound claimer, revealed that the stable staff at Harper Lodge Farm are “positive and ready to crack on” when racing resumes, in an exclusive interview with me yesterday. She said on a personal level that she had coped with the lockdown well. “It’s like I’ve had a career break without… Read more »
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ROYAL ASCOT STILL ON SCHEDULE FOR JUNE 16 START
ROYAL ASCOT is currently still on schedule to begin as planned on Tuesday 16 June although behind closed doors and with some change to the order of races. Following the Government’s announcement that no sporting events would take place before 1st June, the BHA’s flat pattern committee revised its original schedule published on 1st May. So,… Read more »
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UK RACING MASSIVE ODDS ON TO RESUME IN JUNE
UK RACING looks a “certainty” to resume in June, if bookmakers’ odds are anything to go by with the exchanges going 1/7 that racing will resume before 1st July. There was quiet optimism that we could be back on the road maybe before 1st June but with the Prime Minister announcing that sporting events could… Read more »
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VIVA LA FRANCE! FRENCH RACING DEFINITELY ON!
RACING will definitely resume in France in two days time after a tense 24 hours negotiations between the French Government and France Galop. Most of the obstacles seemed to have been cleared for racing to go ahead behind closed doors when some objections were lodged to the Macron Government at the eleventh hour. There have… Read more »
