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The race meeting at Pardubice on August 22nd offered nine races, each with a good-sized field, on a mild late summer afternoon, on a remarkably well turned-out racecourse.
UK jockey Felix de Giles will ride for the first time in the Czech Republic on Saturday, August 22nd. He will ride three horses owned by DS Pegas and trained by Michal Lisek. He will be on the outsider Nana Angela, making her debut in the race for 3-y-o hurdlers. He will then ride Dorotka in the cross-country race for mares only.
This weekend there are two race meetings in the Czech Republic. The meeting at Pardubice on Saturday features the third Velka Pardubicka qualification race, over 5 800 metres.
For the eighth successive year, the Central European Thoroughbred Sale will be held at Pardubice racecourse two days before the Velka Pardubicka.
The sudden death was announced on August 7th of Luděk Mikulecký, owner of the BORS Břeclav stable. Since 2005, the stable has won 74 races, including the Slovak derby, with Rocky of Gracie. The stable’s Universe of Gracie won the May qualification race for this year’s Velká Pardubická. Luděk Mikulecký was a former member of the Council of the Jockey Club of the Czech Republic.
This newsletter should have been posted a week ago, and I have no excuses for the delay. I have not been unwell, I have not been busy. I could justly claim that it has been very hot – but the very hot weather only began after I should have completed the newsletter.
Following the cancellation of the planned race meeting at Benešov on Sunday, there will only be one meeting this weekend.
The first race at the mixed meeting at Lysá-nad-Labem on Saturday, August 8th will be at 4.30 p.m. There are eight races on the card.
Irish-bred Touch of Genius, by Galileo, out of Festoso (Diesis), won the 23rd running of Slovak Derby in good style on July 19th, and became only the fourth horse to win the Derby in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Admission is free for everybody at Prague Velká Chuchle on Thursday evening, and transportation to the racecourse by train or by bus is covered by your city transport pass or daily pass.The first race is at 6.30 p.m., and the weather forecast is good. This a good - and inexpensive - opportunity to introduce your friends to horseracing in the Czech Republic.
Runners and riders have been announced for the evening meeting at Prague Velká Chuchle racecourse on Thursday, July 16th. The first race is at 18.30, and there are five races on the card. The lack of high quality horses is more than compensated by the numbers of runners. Each of the races has at least 13 declared runners, and two have 16 runners, the maximum number of spaces in the starting boxes.
