Vyhrála karlovarské oaks pod vedením B. Ferhanova
přišla v Lázeňské míli pod B. Murzabajevem
v sedle Herbebois zaznamenala své první trenérské vítězství
po neúspěchu v derby ukázal, že vyhrávat stále umí...
Thirty-three-year-old Czech jockey Václav Janáček rode his 1 000th winner on Friday, August 10th, when he won the last race of the afternoon at the traditional three-day meeting on the beach at Sanlúcar de Barrameda, a resort in southern Spain. He is only the second Czech jockey ever to have reached a four-figure number of winners, and he reached this mark on a 6-y-o gelding, Mind the Gap.
The race meeting planned for Kolesa on Saturday 11 August has been cancelled because of the rock-hard ground. The organizers at Kolesa intend to discuss whether a replacement date can be found in the autumn, and will make an announcement in September. The organizers apologize to everyone who had taken an interest in the race meeting, and ask for their understanding.
The raceday at Karlovy Vary on July 22nd was highly successful for Martina Havelková, our most successful female jockey in recent years.
There are nowadays three particularly important steeplechase race meetings in Central Europe in September and October. Each of them is a remarkable event, the highlight of the steeplechasing season in Poland, Italy, and the Czech Republic. EU passport holders can travel very easily to enjoy central European steeplechasing, in which, by the way, Czech-trained horses and Czech jockeys will feature prominently.
In preparation for writing the August 2018 newsletter, I jotted down a few ideas on what I might write about. Then, I decided to reread my August newsletters for 2015 to 2017. I was quite disappointed to see that most of my ‘ideas’ mentioned in the first sentence here had, in fact, been discussed in some detail in the August newsletters in each of the last three years!
There has been an unusually large number of reads of A Conversation with Martin Pecka, Manager of Prague Velk
Czech-trained horses took the first three places in a well-fought finish in the Slovak Derby at Bratislava last Sunday, and it was pleasing that the first two places went to horses that had been placed in the first three in the Czech Derby three weeks earlier.
This year's Simson Stakes, with only 4 runners
Rough moments in the decisive phases of the Czech Derby led to some harsh words in the weighing room after the race. However, Vladimír Panov was far from joining in the complaints. On the contrary, he was all smiles. And why not! He had come to Prague for his first Derby winner.
