The race conditions for the revival of horseracing at Vienna Freudenau on September 16th have been announced. If you are interested in entering a horse for the Austrian St Leger, 2 800 m; EUR 30 000, for 3-y-o and older, please note that the closing date is Monday, Febuary 13th. For further information, please contact
A happy new year, everybody. In horseracing, new years are full of hope, with the birth of foals in the early months, promising three-year-olds appearing as soon as winter is over, and two-year-olds going through their paces later in the season.
After an interval of four years, two Czech-trained horses will run in the UK, at Cheltenham on Friday, December 9th. Czech-trained horses run very frequently nowadays in Italy, France, Slovakia, Germany and Poland, and occasionally in Hungary, Switzerland and Sweden. However, the long journey to the most famous steeplechase course in the world is not only a rarity, but an event that arouses great interest in the Czech horseracing community.
The 126th renewal of the Velka Pardubicka was in the end won comfortably by Charme Look, owned by Orling, trained by Martina Růžičková and ridden by Jan Faltejsek, which finished 10 lengths ahead of Ange Guardian, trained by Josef Váňa senior, and a further 6 lengths ahead of 3rd placed Zarif, trained by Josef Váňa senior and ridden by Josef Bartoš.
It should be easy to predict the winner of the Velka Pardubicka. Several of the runners ran in the race last year and in years before that. All of this year’s runners ran in at least one of the four qualification races, held at Pardubice in May, June, August and September. We might just compare the performances and conclude which will finish first, second and third. All things being equal, of course.
