What A Year That Was!
BRADSELL’S victory in the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot was the highlight of another memorable year at Saxon Gate. Victorious Racing’s star sprinter supplemented his previous year’s success in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes with a stunning top-level success in the hands of Hollie Doyle. His triumph was part of a Royal Ascot treble with John Deer’s Saint Lawrence claiming the Wokingham Stakes on his first start for Archie and Rhythm N Hooves taking the Palace of…
Emperor’s Group Success Brings Up Middleham Park Century
BRAVE EMPEROR’S fourth Group success of the year was not only our November highlight but an extra-special achievement for his owners Middleham Park Racing. The son of Sioux Nation’s breakthrough victory at Group 2 level in the €250,000 Premio Vittorio di Capua in Milan in the hands of Luke Morris was the 100th winner of a memorable year for the familiar sky blue silks. After supplementing three Group 3 victories and a Listed win overseas this year, and taking his…
More International Targets For Globetrotting Emperor
Our globetrotting star BRAVE EMPEROR is beginning a well-earned winter break after claiming his fourth Group success of the year in Italy this month. Middleham Park’s standard bearer scored for the first time at Group 2 level when winning the €250,000 Premio Vittorio di Capua in Milan, supplementing three Group 3 victories and a Listed win in a remarkable year overseas. Archie says: “It was a fantastic result in Italy, finishing off an amazing year in style. We will give…
Success On And Off The Track In October
BRAVE EMPEROR’S third Group victory of the year got October off to a flying start – but success at Saxon Gate wasn’t confined to the racecourse. At the Horses in Training Sales at Tattersalls in Newmarket, prolific gelding He’s A Monster went under the hammer for 450,000 gns to continue his career in Qatar. Lone Star Investments’ three-year-old son of No Nay Never won five times in just nine starts and was unbeaten in four races on the All-Weather, achieving…
Milan Finale Planned For Triple Group Winner
After securing his third Group success of the year, Middleham Park Racing’s BRAVE EMPEROR is now set to bring an unforgettable season to a close in Italy in November. The globe-trotting gelding will take his chance in the valuable Group 2 Premio Vittorio di Capua in Milan following his trademark bold performance at Dusseldorf in Germany on Sunday 1st October. The remarkable son of Sioux Nation scored his eight success in 14 career starts in the Group 3 Grosser Preis…
Roman Mist Boosts Archie’s International CV
ROMAN MIST’S success at Group level in Germany on 23rd September was a further boost to Archie’s impressive international record. Her win means the master of Saxon Gate has now sent out big winners at Krefeld and Dresden in Germany, Bro Park in Sweden, Doha in Qatar, The Curragh and Naas in Ireland and Cagnes-Sur-Mer, Chantilly and Deauville in France. Andrasch Starke guided the five-year-old home in the Grosser Preis der Landeshauptstadt, a Group 3 over seven furlongs. A full…
Sun Chariot Target For Roman Mist
The Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket could be ROMAN MIST’S next assignment following her high-level success in Germany last week. Archie’s five-year-old justified favouritism to win the Group 3 Grosser Preis der Landeshauptstadt over seven furlongs at Dresden on 23rd September for owners David Howden & Partners. It was her first success in that grade after taking the Listed Conqueror Fillies’ Stakes at Goodwood on her stable debut back in May and then going close in Group company…
Hat-trick Hero Brodie Our Star Performer
International Group success and three wins for our amateur star Brodie Hampson kept Saxon Gate in the headlines in August. Brave Emperor claimed his second overseas success to land the Prix Daphnis – Fonds Europeen de l’Elevage – Prix Famille Saleh-Selman over a mile in testing conditions at Deauville under regular rider Luke Morris. It was his second win at that level this year following his exploits at Krefeld in Germany back in April. Archie and the team also achieved…
Listed Scorer Action Point Tops The Bill
Exciting two-year-old ACTION POINT topped the bill at Saxon Gate in July with a Listed victory that set him up for a step into Group company at York in August. Archie’s son of Blue Point was an easy winner of the Rose Bowl Stakes at Newbury on 21st July and will now head to the Knavesmire for the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes over the same six furlongs. Ridden by stable jockey Hollie Doyle, Hamad Rashed Bin Ghedayer’s colt made all…
Group Success At The Double In France
Saxon Gate stars BRAVE EMPEROR and Saint Lawrence made it Group success at the double for Archie and the team in France on Sunday, 6th August. Middleham Park Racing’s prolific three-year-old claimed his second international Group victory before Saint Lawrence ran the race of his life to be a close third in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville. Regular rider Luke Morris had three-parts of a length to spare over his nearest rival on Brave Emperor in…
