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Twenty-eight horses are currently entered and qualified for the Velka Pardubicka, to be run at Pardubice on Sunday, October 14th. Two other Czech-trained horses, Hegnus and Eldorado, have qualified by finishing at least one of the four qualification races run at Pardubice in May, June, August and September, but have not yet been entered for the big race.
Irish trainer Tom Hogan says that it is all systems go for Gordon Lord Byron to run on EJC day at Prague Velká Chuchle on Saturday, September 22nd. The horse will fly out on the Friday and fly back after racing on Saturday evening.
It is understand that one of the owners, Dr Cyrus Poonawalla, has factories in the Czech Republic.
The last of the four Velka Pardubicka qualification races run at Pardubice racecourse produced a good-quality race. At last, there was a qualification race run on a cool afternoon and on good ground. The ploughed fields were a bit dusty, but we must again be grateful to the ground staff for their hard work on preparing the course.
There were ten runners, including two promising young horses, Buonarotti and Tzigane du Berlais, that had not yet qualified for the big race on October 14th.
This September newsletter has caused me some trouble. I normally begin the newsletters with comments on the weather in the last four weeks, and with events that took place within that same period of time. After that, there is usually something about coming events.
After an excessively long 10-week summer break, racing returns to Prague Velká Chuchle racecourse on Sunday, September 2nd. There are two feature races, each with attractive prize money of CzK 550 000 (EUR 20 000). The Martin Tour Travel Agency Prague Grand Prix, 1 600 metres brings together a good field of milers, several of which will be fancied. In the Czech St Leger, Blessed Kiss will be a hot favourite after her winning run in the Czech Derby in June, followed by a close second place winner in the Slovak Derby at Bratislava in July.
Josef Váňa is an 8-time winning jockey in the Velka Pardubicka. For most Czechs, it is as a jockey that he is still recognized, although he has been a top trainer since the early 1990s.
The third of the four qualification races for the 2018 Velka Pardubicka was run at Pardubice last Saturday - like the previous two qualification races, in hot, dry conditions. The racecourse was a strange sight. The racing line of the parts of the crosscountry races that are run on grass had been watered enough to be green.
The 4th European Jockeys Cup meeting will be held at Prague Velká Chuchle racecourse on Saturday, September 22nd. The following jockeys are on the provisional invitation list:
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.
