Qitaal’s impressive comeback
Johnston Racing
by Mikaelle Lebreton
1d ago
By John Scanlon After a break of 687 days, Qitaal made a dazzling comeback to the racecourse when landing a handicap over a mile and a quarter at Doncaster on March 25. The lightly raced Iffraaj gelding, now a five-year-old and owned by Johnston Racing, was always travelling strongly for Joe Fanning and comfortably held the challenge of Stressfree by a length and a half. The post Qitaal’s impressive comeback appeared first on Johnston Racing ..read more
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Listed win for Dear My Friend
Johnston Racing
by Mikaelle Lebreton
1M ago
By John Scanlon   Dear My Friend continued his excellent start to 2024 when winning the Listed Tandridge Stakes over a mile at Lingfield on February 4. Making all the running under Joe Fanning, the Pivotal gelding pulled clear to win, relatively unchallenged, by a length and three-quarters from the favourite Nine Tenths. This was a second Listed win for the four-year-old, who has now shown he can emulate his excellent Newcastle form elsewhere. The post Listed win for Dear My Friend appeared first on Johnston Racing ..read more
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Perfect start
Johnston Racing
by Mikaelle Lebreton
1M ago
By John Scanlon Johnston Racing made the perfect start to their February campaign when their sole runner on February 1, Wadacre Gomez, ran out the winner of a Chelmsford handicap. The four-year-old Brazen Beau colt, owned by Wadacre Stud and ridden by Jason Hart, made all the running to score over a mile and a quarter, and has now scored three times over course and distance. The yard made it two out of two for the month the following afternoon, when Sennockian won the feature race, a handicap over a mile at Newcastle. The Burke Family’s No Nay Never gelding tracked the favourite Tasmanian Lege ..read more
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Happy New Year! Dear My Friend gives the yard the first win of 2024
Johnston Racing
by Mikaelle Lebreton
3M ago
By John Scanlon Happy New Year! Johnston Racing lost no time in recording its first winner of 2024. The four-year-old Dear My Friend encountered trouble in running in the valuable mile handicap on Newcastle’s Trials card on New Year’s Day, but quickened up well in the closing stages to win decisively by two lengths from Symbol of Light. The gelding has now qualified to run in the Mile Final on All-Weather Championships’ Finals Day at the end of March. The post Happy New Year! Dear My Friend gives the yard the first win of 2024 appeared first on Johnston Racing ..read more
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Winning debut for Zandita
Johnston Racing
by Mikaelle Lebreton
3M ago
By John Scanlon   The juvenile filly Zandita made an exciting start to her racing career when running out the impressive winner of a fillies’ novice event at Lingfield on December 20. The Calyx filly, owned by Markus Graff, was one of seven fillies who went to post for the seven furlong race. Ridden by Franny Norton, Zandita was drawn on the wide outside of the field, while the favourite, Tiaraqueen, had the best of the draw on the rail. From the outset, Tiaraqueen set out to make all the running, pursued by Mucha Muchacha. For her part, Zandita broke well and raced in fourth or fifth, ta ..read more
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The African Queen makes all at Wolverhampton
Johnston Racing
by Mikaelle Lebreton
3M ago
by John Scanlon   Despite a less than ideal draw, The African Queen made it two wins from four career starts when making all the running to land a fillies’ novice event at Wolverhampton on December 16. The juvenile filly by The Last Lion, owned by John Brown and Partner, had made a winning debut at Brighton in July, before running down the field in the Listed Star Stakes at Sandown next time out on soft ground. Returning after a break of over three months, The African Queen turned out in a fillies’ novice race at Chelmsford on November 11 and acquitted herself well, finishing third of the ..read more
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Chelmsford win for Wadacre Gomez
Johnston Racing
by Mikaelle Lebreton
3M ago
By John Scanlon Wadacre Gomez landed his third win of the year when comfortably winning a Chelmsford City handicap on December 11. Wadacre Stud’s three-year-old colt by Brazen Beau won a Newcastle novice event over a mile and a quarter in April and has performed pretty consistently since then. He added a second win over the same distance in a Chelmsford handicap restricted to three-year-olds in August. In the latest Chelmsford race, Wadacre Gomez faced six rivals, all older horses bar one, and was partnered by his regular pilot, Franny Norton. The colt was drawn well, just one stall away from ..read more
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Star stayer Subjectivist off to stud
Johnston Racing
by Mikaelle Lebreton
5M ago
By John Scanlon On November 8, it was announced that Dr Jim Walker’s dual Group 1 winner, Subjectivist, by Teofilo out of the Danehill Dancer mare, Reckoning, has been retired to stud and will stand at Alne Park Stud in 2024. Bred by Mascalls Stud, Subjectivist was purchased at Book 2 of Tattersalls October Yearling Sale in 2018for 62,000gns. He ran seven times as a juvenile in 2019, winning a Chelmsford novice event over seven furlongs by seven lengths, as well as finishing second three times, notably in Salisbury’s Listed Stonehenge Stakes. At three, Subjectivist began his campaign with a de ..read more
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The Gatekeeper stands strong on Champions Day… while Ask Peter flies home at Catterick!
Johnston Racing
by Mikaelle Lebreton
5M ago
By John Scanlon The Gatekeeper produced a fantastic front-running display under jockey Joe Fanning to land the valuable Balmoral Handicap on British Champions Day at Ascot on October 21. Middleham Park Racing’s four-year-old Excelebration gelding loved the prevailing soft conditions at the Berkshire track and earned his owners in excess of £100,000 in prize-money with this, his fifth career success. Meanwhile, at Catterick, the four-year-old Jukebox Jury filly, Ask Peter, completed a 189/1 across-the-card double for the yard when landing an apprentice handicap under Archie Young. The filly was ..read more
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Our Book 1 Yearlings Fantastic Value For Money
Johnston Racing
by Mikaelle Lebreton
6M ago
Anyone interested in buying a graduate of the recent and prestigious Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Book 1, would do well to consider one of the yearlings purchased by Johnston Racing. We have four yearlings advertised on our website for sale, each one of them purchased for substantially less than their sire’s average and median for the 2023 European yearling sale season to date, as published in the Racing Post on Monday October 9, 2023. The yearlings are by: Kingman (22 sold. 2023 average/median (in gns)): 325,232; 280,000. Price paid: 57,000. Sea The Stars (49 sold. 2023 average/median ..read more
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