Taghrooda

Taghrooda defeat demonstrates unreliability of the form guide

 August 22, 2014   John Welsh

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The announcement that Jamie Spence was to retire as a jockey to concentrate on an alternative role with Qatar Racing was greeted with an element of surprise by racegoers at the York Ebor festival but that news was accompanied by an even unlikelier event much later in the day. Taghrooda was long odds on favourite […]

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Taghrooda

Further glory awaits Taghrooda after stunning King George victory

 July 28, 2014   John Welsh

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When Australia produced an impressive performance to win the Epsom Derby in June, it was heralded as the best horse ever to be trained by Irishman Aidan O’Brien and probably the leading three year old of the 2014 flat season. At the same meeting, Taghrooda won the Oaks in an equally stylish display but the […]

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