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Irish Independent
a day ago
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Ryan Moore gives front-running lesson on Aidan O'Brien's Trinity College in Hampton Court at Royal Ascot
Lining up after a fourth in the G1 Prix du Jockey Club, the son of Dubawi set even fractions before pouring it on in the straight, ultimately winning by a commanding three and a half lengths. Runner-up Tornado Alert (9/1) appreciated the drop back in trip after finishing sixth in the G1 Derby. All-weather Listed scorer Glittering Legend (11/1) was a length further back in third. Winning trainer Aidan O'Brien said: 'Ryan gave Trinity College a beautiful ride. He had him in a lovely rhythm and, when he started getting him to move, he really kept going to the line, so you would be very happy with him now. 'Ryan was going to go forward. He does that a lot and is happy to be forward. I didn't ask him but I imagine Trinity College would be happy to get a lead as well. He got it exactly spot on. 'Trinity College would have a lot of options. He could be an Eclipse horse or an American Derby horse. I would say he is improving. We always thought he was a high enough class horse last year as a two-year-old, but things just didn't fall for him. He has probably matured and got stronger now." O'Brien, who is closing in on 100 Royal Ascot winners, added: 'One day at a time! It is great, and I am delighted for everybody. A lot of hard work goes in to each of those horses.' Moore said: 'This is the way Trinity College has been ridden most of the time. He likes it that way. The day at Epsom, when we held on to him a little bit, he just hung down the camber. He is out of a very good mare [Hermosa] and we are learning about him. 'He quickened up very well and had the race in safe-keeping at the two – a smart colt. It was a big run in the French Derby and a quick turnaround. His mother sort of came out of nowhere and got better as a three-year-old, and he's a Dubawi – they usually progress." Co-owner Paul Smith said: 'This is really special. I am delighted for everybody. I think this is Ryan's first winner in my colours. Trinity College ran a super race in the French Derby. He was really strong from the front end there. Ryan got a great possy and quickened off the bend. It was quite an impressive run. He is a progressive horse who seems to like all surfaces. He gets the trip well, so it does open a lot of doors now.' Saeed bin Suroor said of Tornado Alert: 'He ran well to finish sixth in the Derby, and now second in a nice race here is good. He is improving. We will see how he comes out of this, but we will look for a Group 3 race.' James Fanshawe said of Glittering Legend: 'He ran really well. He got a bump early on, which just set him alight a bit, but he dropped his head really well and kept on well. Unfortunately, I think he's off to Hong Kong now, but he's done really well. I think it will turn out to be a good race.'
Daily Mirror
a day ago
- Sport
- Daily Mirror
Royal Ascot victory in Gold Cup brings vow to 'run naked down the track'
Jayne McGivern, who has championed the Derby winner Golden Horn since acquiring as a stallion, was overjoyed by his son's success in the royal meeting's signature prize A joyful stud owner revealed she made a vow to streak down the track if the favourite won the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot on Ladies' Day. Jayne McGivern owns Golden Horn, the champion racehorse who won the Derby, Eclipse, Irish Champion Sakes and Arc in 2015. Since acquiring Golden Horn, who she stands as a Flat and jumps stallion at Overbury Stud in Gloucestershire, he has produced a Royal Ascot winner in Gregory and Champion Hurdle winner in Golden Ace. He is also the sire of Trawlerman who stepped out of the shadow of recently retired long distance champion Kyprios, behind whom he was second last year, to capture the royal meeting's signature race, the Gold Cup. Trawlerman, trained by John and Thady Gosden and ridden by William Buick, made all the running in the marathon race to defeat Illinois, the anointed heir to Kyprios in Aidan O'Brien's Ballydoyle stable. And afterwards McGivern let stip she had made a promise to her husband to 'run naked down the track for a mile' if Trawlerman netted his prize catch to clinch a statement win for his father. 'Golden Horn deserved this,' said McGivern. 'He doesn't produce two and three year olds on the Flat but if you are prepared to go and produce a tough middle distance horse then he is the horse. I am so pleased he's got the recognition of doing that. 'I could not be more proud of the boy. He's the most fabulous horse. He deserved a statement win on the Flat but he is as brilliant a jumps stallion as he is Flat. He is a dual-purpose stallion.' Before being bought by McGivern, Golden Horn was stood by owner-breeder Anthony Oppenheimer as a Flat stallion at Dalham Hall Stud. 'His connections recognised that he needed more time than the Flat market were prepared to give him and he'd be better off in a different place. 'I absolutely love the horse, I believe in him, I identified him as something I wanted to buy 18 months before I was able to. I knew how good he was and I just wanted the public to see how good he was. Golden Horn was a brilliant racehorse and now I hope he has shown he is a brilliant sire too.' After the race an elated McGivern let slip she had made a promise to her husband to 'run naked down the track for a mile' if Trawlerman netted his prize catch. She said: 'I am prepared to do that but I don't want to frighten the crowd so I might do it tomorrow! Trawlerman wasn't a shoo-in. It was just his day. 'I will do it in private at home tonight with my husband in the garden, if that's okay. I will keep my hat on!' FREE £2 William Hill Shop Bets every day of Royal Ascot inside your Mirror We've teamed up with racing experts William Hill to offer your a £2 FREE shop bet every day of the iconic Royal Ascot festival. Pick up your Mirror from Tuesday June 17 -> Saturday June 21, 2025 to get your hands on this great offer. With 12 pages of incredible pullouts every day, PLUS a £2 shop bet, the Mirror is ready to bring you all the runners, riders, and winners of Ascot 2025.
Sydney Morning Herald
2 days ago
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Eclipse testwork shows high Greenland rare earths recoveries
Eclipse Metals' intriguing Gronnedal rare earths project in Greenland has cemented its position as a potential key source of the high-value magnet elements, neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium and terbium, with a clear development pathway. The conclusion follows recent analytical and mineralogical studies by SGS laboratories in Canada on selected samples, which confirm the presence of rare earth minerals including synchysite, bastnasite and monazite. The mineral suite comprises an ideal assemblage to meet global demand for valuable neodymium and praseodymium which are key magnet rare earths feedstock needed for the global drive towards electrification. Testwork samples were obtained from 23 core samples acquired by Eclipse from six historic diamond drill holes put into the Gronnedal deposit in the 1950s to a maximum depth of about 200 metres. The holes are a key input into the company's recent transformational update to its mineral resource estimate, which massively hiked the inferred resource to 89 million tonnes at 6363 parts per million total rare earth oxides (TREO). 'In a time of global supply uncertainty, we're positioning to deliver strategic critical minerals into Western markets - efficiently and at scale.' Eclipse Metals executive chairman Carl Popal Encouragingly, Eclipse says the current 89Mt resource represents no more than about 6 per cent of the known carbonatite body, suggesting extensive growth potential, both laterally and at depth, below the present limit of historical drilling. The mineralogical work utilised a Tescan integrated mineral analyser, X-ray diffraction analysis and chemical analyses to determine the geochemical and mineralogical characteristics of the samples. The testwork shows the key rare earth minerals are relatively coarse-grained and demonstrate good liberation characteristics at P80 - where 80 per cent of the sample passes through precisely sized sieves within nominated size ranges.
The Age
2 days ago
- Business
- The Age
Eclipse testwork shows high Greenland rare earths recoveries
Eclipse Metals' intriguing Gronnedal rare earths project in Greenland has cemented its position as a potential key source of the high-value magnet elements, neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium and terbium, with a clear development pathway. The conclusion follows recent analytical and mineralogical studies by SGS laboratories in Canada on selected samples, which confirm the presence of rare earth minerals including synchysite, bastnasite and monazite. The mineral suite comprises an ideal assemblage to meet global demand for valuable neodymium and praseodymium which are key magnet rare earths feedstock needed for the global drive towards electrification. Testwork samples were obtained from 23 core samples acquired by Eclipse from six historic diamond drill holes put into the Gronnedal deposit in the 1950s to a maximum depth of about 200 metres. The holes are a key input into the company's recent transformational update to its mineral resource estimate, which massively hiked the inferred resource to 89 million tonnes at 6363 parts per million total rare earth oxides (TREO). 'In a time of global supply uncertainty, we're positioning to deliver strategic critical minerals into Western markets - efficiently and at scale.' Eclipse Metals executive chairman Carl Popal Encouragingly, Eclipse says the current 89Mt resource represents no more than about 6 per cent of the known carbonatite body, suggesting extensive growth potential, both laterally and at depth, below the present limit of historical drilling. The mineralogical work utilised a Tescan integrated mineral analyser, X-ray diffraction analysis and chemical analyses to determine the geochemical and mineralogical characteristics of the samples. The testwork shows the key rare earth minerals are relatively coarse-grained and demonstrate good liberation characteristics at P80 - where 80 per cent of the sample passes through precisely sized sieves within nominated size ranges.
Powys County Times
2 days ago
- Sport
- Powys County Times
Ombudsman shows star quality with sizzling Prince of Wales's display
Ombudsman displayed a devastating change of gear to run out a brilliant winner of the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot. Successful on each of his first four starts last season, including a Group Three win in France, John and Thady Gosden's colt met with defeat for the first time when second to Almaqam on his return to action in last month's Brigadier Gerard at Sandown. The Godolphin-owned four-year-old faced a further hike in class for this Group One feature, but after being settled well off the strong early pace by William Buick, he engaged overdrive once in the clear halfway up the straight and readily picked off the gallant Anmaat to win by two lengths going away. See The Fire was third, another two and a half lengths behind the 7-1 winner, but Aidan O'Brien's Los Angeles, the 13-8 favourite, faded into fifth place. WOW! OMBUDSMAN THROUGH TRAFFIC TO WIN THE PRINCE OF WALES'S STAKES! #ROYALASCOT — At The Races (@AtTheRaces) June 18, 2025 Gosden senior, celebrating his 70th Royal Ascot winner, said: 'He's a special horse and it's just a question of an owner giving you the time to let them mature and get there. 'He's got a turn of foot and he (Buick) knew it, it was a matter of getting out, but I did notice when he finally got daylight there was a furlong to go.' He went on: 'It's a question of, when you get to the straight, whether you get the luck. He wasn't in a position where he could swing round the field, it was more of a case of waiting for the gap. 'He was very patient. I knew when there was a gap at the furlong pole that this horse has an extraordinary turn of foot – he was patient and he was rewarded. 'When we bought him he was an immature horse, he didn't run as a two-year-old and as a three-year-old we brought him on and then put him away. He's horse who is now properly grown and developed as a four-year-old. 'He's a mile-and-a-quarter horse, he's got a wonderful turn of foot as you saw and I think we'll play to that strength. As far as I'm concerned he's done nothing but grow in stature. 'He is a horse that because he hasn't over-raced this year, he could be a horse you could look at the Eclipse. 'That wouldn't be my choice (to run him against Field Of Gold).' Thady Gosden added: 'When William found a gap he asked him to go through it and he was very quick. 'The Eclipse looks like the natural step to take. It was a top-class field today, it was the most elite field of the week as it often is and he showed what he was capable of there. 'It wasn't a huge field but it was highly elite, as you'd expect at this meeting. He certainly came up good.' Buick was noticeably jubilant on passing the line, after an opening day that had seen high-profile reverses for Notable Speech and Ruling Court. He said: 'This place tames lions. It's so special to win here because it's so tough, everyone comes here in great form and everyone is doing their very best of course. 'They went a hard gallop. I was always going to have to ride for a bit of luck and he quickened instantly. I thought he was impressive. 'I think that was a taste of what's to come for sure. He's got low miles on the clock, he's an exciting horse.'
