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  • NEW SOLARIO BROCHURE AVAILABLE NOW!

    THE new Solario brochure is hot off the press and available for all exisiting and prospective owners. Designed by Cube Studios, the 12-page full-colour brochure is promoting the very exciting new Solario Racing acquisition.  A grey colt by French 2000 Guineas winner, Aussie Rules out of a Rainbow Quest mare, this handsome unraced 2yo stands at… Read more »

  • SOLARIO RACING REPRESENTED ON RSA COMMITTEE

    SOLARIO RACING, a member of the RSA, the Racing Syndicates Association, is now represented on its committee following today’s AGM at the British Horseracing Authority’s Headquarters. The Racing Syndicates Association (RSA) promotes the interests of Racehorse Syndicate Managers in Great Britain. It provides a collective voice to promote and benefit Horseracing Syndicates and Clubs.  Its… Read more »

  • DON’T LOOK DOWN FULL OF BEANS!

    DON’T LOOK DOWN, the new addition to Solario Racing, is starting to find his feet at Harper Lodge Farm, judging by how he cantered in the outside ring yesterday! I went up to see him go through his paces and Dimitris Myolonas, who has been riding him since he arrived last Wednesday, was again on… Read more »

  • DON’T LOOK DOWN SETTLING IN WELL

    DON’T LOOK DOWN, the new 2yo acquisition by Solario Racing, purchased at Tattersalls on Tuesday, arrived home on Wednesday and is settling in very nicely at Harper Lodge Farm. It’s a different environment from Newmarket where some 3,000 horses are trained and often queue up to go on to the gallops but this handsome 16:2hh son of… Read more »

  • SOLARIO PURCHASES 2YO FROM SIR MARK PRESCOTT

    SOLARIO RACING broke new ground yesterday when purchasing an unraced 2yo at Tattersalls prestigious Horses In Training Sale, an Aussie Rules grey colt from one of Newmarket’s most famous trainers, Sir Mark Prescott for 25,000 guineas. It was new ground on two counts.  We have never bought a 2yo before and have never purchased a… Read more »

  • LIBRISA BREEZE A RECORD 119 FOR DEAN IVORY

    LIBRISA BREEZE ran a personal best at Ascot on Champions Day and an inevitable rise in the handicap has led him to be rated 119, the highest ever rating for a Dean Ivory-trained horse. Most form students and pundits thought it would be around a half a stone increase and indeed it was exactly that with… Read more »

  • LIBRISA’S GROUP ONE GIVES IVORY ANOTHER RECORD YEAR

    LIBRISA BREEZE created history yesterday when winning the Champions Sprint as he gave Dean Ivory his first Group One success and ensured the Master of Harper Lodge Farm had another record season for the fifth year running. All the talk beforehand was of the rematch between Harry Angel and Caravaggio with the focus of attention also on the… Read more »

  • IVORY BANDWAGON ROLLS ON WITH 50/1 WINNER

    VILLETTE surprised more than a few punters up and down the land yesterday when the Ivory filly won at 50/1 on just her fourth ever start. The 3yo filly won on her debut earlier in the year at Kempton at 20/1 and clearly she goes well fresh as her victory at Leicester yesterday was after a… Read more »

  • HEARTS BRINGS THIRTY UP FOR DEAN IVORY

    BLAZE OF HEARTS won his second race of the season this afternoon at Yarmouth, scene of his first victory, which brought up win number 30 for Dean Ivory. The 4yo son of Canford Cliffs was running over a mile, a furlong short of his August success and he was given a clever ride by John Egan.  Making… Read more »

  • HARLEQUIN STRIKER WINS OFF LOWEST EVER MARK

    HARLEQUIN STRIKER made all at Nottingham yesterday off his lowest ever mark to record Dean Ivory’s second win in two days. Having slipped down to a handicap rating of 72, the son of Bahamian Bounty benefited from first time cheek-pieces, and also had the services of Charles Bishop in the saddle.  Formerly with Mick Channon, the 5yo “Striker”… Read more »