Magiclips did you see....

Goldikova winning her 10th Group1?

Sure it was the 3rd year on the bounce she has won the Rothchilds?


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If she doesn`t give you Goose Bumps you should give the game up..

She is a STAR! (tu)

Great mare.(tu)

The only way Special Duty beats Goldi is on an objection..............lol

Special Duty camp eye Goldikova clash in Foret

France: Two-time Classic winner Special Duty could take on supermare Goldikova in the Prix de la Foret at Longchamp on October 3, providing she recovers from a setback that came to light following her disappointing run in the Etihad Airways Falmouth Stakes.

After winning both the British and French Guineas, Special Duty went into the Group 1 at Newmarket's July meeting with major claims, but she left trainer Criquette Head-Maarek baffled when trailing in seventh of the eight runners.
Special Duty Wins the 1000 Guineas from Jacqueline Quest Newmarket 02.05.2010

However, Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager to the filly's owner Khaild Abdullah, revealed she picked up an injury in the early part of the race.

"When she came out of the stalls at Newmarket she went back on her hock and seems to have stretched her pelvic area," Grimthorpe told At The Races.

"All being well she will come back and she could go for something like the Prix de la Foret if she is ready."

However Paco Boy is a different story?

Paco Boy to reoppose Goldikova in Le Marois

France: A rematch between Paco Boy and Goldikova is on the cards as Paco Boy looks set to travel to France for the Prix Jacques le Marois to try and avenge the quarter-length defeat he suffered at Ascot in the Queen Anne Stakes.

While Paco Boy's challenge was delayed due to traffic issues and Goldikova's margin of victory was fast diminishing, the eagerly awaited renewal of one of the mile division's biggest rivalries takes place on the ten-time Group 1 winning mare's home turf.


The Freddie Head-trained five-year-old has won on all four starts at Deauville, landing four Group 1s in the process, including when a runaway six-length winner of last year's contest.

However, the Hannon team are not perturbed and fancy another crack at Goldikova. Hannon said on his website: "We ran Goldikova close in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot, and I am looking forward to having another crack at the French mare in Deauville.

"She is a phenomenal miler and would have done more in a piece of work at home than she did when winning the Prix Rothschild last week, so I doubt whether it took too much out of her, but this was always the race we had mapped out for Paco Boy, and I see no reason to change our minds.

"Both the Maurice de Gheest and the Haydock Sprint Cup had been mentioned by the owners, but I am not keen in chopping around with his trip, andI would rather we go back to France for the Prix Moulin at Longchamp after Deauville.

"This will be Paco Boy's final season, so, while I am no fan of American racing, if the owners want to have their last roll of the dice in the Breeders' Cup Mile that is fine by me.

"Hughesie [jockey Richard Hughes] says that the Churchill Downs track is about the only one in the States where we will get an ease in the ground, whichwould suit us as I would hate to run Paco Boy on really firm ground."

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Goldikova likely to face small field in Marois

THERE is likely to be a small field when Goldikova goes for her eleventh Group 1 victory in Sunday's Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville.

Nine horses remained in Europe's richest mile race at Wednesday's forfeit stage and one of the two British-trained runners left in the race, Brian Meehan's Arcano, will not be in the line-up.

Arcano won the Darley Prix Morny at Deauville last year, but owner Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum's racing manager, Angus Gold, said: "We're just having a look and we're intending to run him in the Hungerford Stakes at Newbury on Saturday."

That means that Paco Boy will be the only foreign-trained horse in the race and his trainer Richard Hannon said "He's in excellent shape."

Makfi will be ridden for the first time by Christophe Soumillon and the 2,000 Guineas winner is on the comeback trail after a throat infection, which led to him running below expectations in the St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Robert Collet looks like he will saddle Royal Bench, who was a Listed winner at Deauville last time out. He said: "The colt is a definite runner and Ioritz Mendizabal will be in the saddle. It looks a hard race to win."

Another main contender is Fuisse, four-length winner of the Prix Messidor at Maisons-Laffitte last month. Only Green and Saying will act as pacemakers to Goldikova.

Following 8.2mm of rain the going at Deauville on Wednesday was good to soft to soft, but there is very little rain forecast before Sunday.