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Turfling
Europe
Monday 21 September 2026
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The lead
Court delay gives Rouget a last Arc with Arrow Eagle
Jean-Claude Rouget will train through 6 October after the Commercial Tribunal in Pau accepted a request for a short delay in the winding up of his business. The hearing takes place on 29 September and the court announces its decision on 6 October, two days after the Arc. That leaves Rouget free to run Arrow Eagle in the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on 4 October, and the horse will be his final runner (Thoroughbred Daily News, Equidia, Racing Post).
Arrow Eagle is a younger half-brother to Ace Impact, with whom Rouget won the 2023 Arc. He finished sixth in last year’s Arc and went on to take the Group 1 Prix Royal-Oak over a mile and seven and a half furlongs. Rouget’s training career was due to end this month after 48 years and more than 7,000 winners, among them two Arcs and 14 French Classics (Racing Post, Thoroughbred Daily News).
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Things to know today
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Betfred would walk away from its sponsorship of the Derby, the Oaks, both Guineas and the St Leger if October’s budget raises Machine Games Duty, founder Fred Done wrote in The Sunday Times. Done said the firm has a verbal agreement to renew for a further three years, but that doubling the duty to 40 per cent would close 495 shops, 45 per cent of its estate, with the loss of 2,475 shop jobs (Racing Post) |
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Lordano won the Deutsches St Leger at Dortmund on Sunday for a second time, only the second horse to win the race twice after El Tango. Marcel Weiss trains the seven year old son of Adlerflug for Gestüt Ittlingen and Sibylle Vogt rode. Wintertraum was second and his stablemate Helvetios, the best of the three year olds, third (GaloppOnline) |
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Schamyl came from the rear under Nicolaj Stott to win the Group 3 Stockholm Cup International over 2400 metres at Bro Park on Sunday for Jan-Erik Neuroth, beating Nastaria with War Socks third. On the same card Crown Board gave Jane Chapple-Hyam her first Bro Park winner, holding Grandpa’s Prince by half a length in a Listed race over 1600 metres on dirt under David Egan (Horse Racing Sweden, Racing Post) |
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Willie Mullins had a treble on the opening day of the Listowel Harvest Festival, starting with Run Ted Run, who stayed unbeaten under Paul Townend by a length and a quarter from Too Hot To Trot in the maiden hurdle. Ocastle Des Mottes and Green Hint completed it, and the Kinisla Handicap Chase went to Net Boy by nine lengths for Barry Connell and Sean Flanagan (The Irish Field) |
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Topaz won the Listed Premio Ubaldo Pandolfi for two year old fillies over 1200 metres at Capannelle on Sunday by two lengths from Charm Bear, with Atena Acquaviva third. Jack Channon trains the Persian Force filly for Highclere and Finley Marsh rode. At least 5,000 people went racing as the Rome track marked a hundred years since its 1926 rebuilding (Italian Post Racing, Tuttosport) |
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Mahasti gave her freshman sire Rubaiyat his first black type winner in the Listed Grosser Junioren-Preis at Hannover on Sunday, beating Laveran by four and a half lengths for Bohumil Nedorostek and Wladimir Panov, and heads next for the Preis der Winterkönigin on 18 October. Panov then won the Listed Grosser Stutenpreis on Soft Winds, her first black type success (Thoroughbred Daily News, GaloppOnline) |
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Syzygy won the Group 3 Denny Cordell Lavarack and Lanwades Stud Fillies and Mares Stakes at Gowran Park on Saturday by a short head from Pollenca, with Sindria third. Scott McCullagh rode for Danny McLoughlin, who had passed up an entry in France to run her (Racing Post) |
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Almaqam will head for the Champion Stakes at Ascot rather than the Arc, Ed Walker said, adding that if he does what he did at York he will be hard to beat. Walker also confirmed that Ten Bob Tony will go for the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on the same card (Sporting Life) |
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Charlie Appleby has pencilled in Champagne Stakes winner Desert Castle for the Dewhurst and May Hill winner Musical Times for the Fillies’ Mile, with the Prix Marcel Boussac an option for her if the ground is quick at Newmarket and softer in France. Appleby’s September so far reads 15 winners from 24 runners (The Irish Field) |
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International
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America
Bodacious Bay takes the Cotillion first time for Joseph
Bodacious Bay won the Grade 1 Cotillion Stakes at Parx on Saturday by three and a quarter lengths from Always a Runner, with Measure third and the mile and a sixteenth run in 1:43.60 on a fast track. Micah J. Husbands rode the Not This Time filly on her first start for Saffie Joseph Jr. after a private purchase, and Joseph said he thinks she could be the best filly in the country next year (Thoroughbred Daily News).
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Australasia
Irish-bred Birdman steps up to win the Underwood
Birdman stepped up to 1800 metres to win the Group 1 Underwood Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday by a length and three quarters from Cosmic Crusader, with Attrition third and the time 1:47.15 on a Good 3 track. Chris Waller trains the six year old son of Free Eagle and Ben Melham rode him to a second Group 1 win, calling him an old gentleman who made his job easy (Breednet).
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Asia
Meisho Gekirin takes the All Comers by a nose
Meisho Gekirin won the Grade 2 Sankei Sho All Comers over 2200 metres at Nakayama on Sunday by a nose from Can’t Wait, with Voulezvous a length and a quarter away in third on soft ground. H. Tanabe rode the seven year old for K. Sasada, and last year’s winner Regaleira finished fourth of the 13 runners (netkeiba, Japan Racing Association).
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Markets overnight
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FTSE 100 10,659.13, down 1.45 per cent (Trading Economics) |
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DAX 25,304.06, down 1.60 per cent (Trading Economics) |
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CAC 40 8,065.02, down 1.49 per cent (Trading Economics) |
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EUR/USD 1.1485, up 0.08 per cent (Trading Economics) |
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GBP/USD 1.3395, up 0.27 per cent (Trading Economics) |
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Bitcoin 81,771 dollars, up 0.76 per cent, read early on Monday 21 September (Trading Economics) |
Indices and currencies are the Friday 18 September closes, the most recent with European markets yet to open on Monday. Bitcoin trades around the clock and carries the time it was read. Gold and Brent crude are omitted from this edition because no confirmed Friday close could be read from a live source when it was assembled. Nothing above is rounded from memory, interpolated, or carried forward from a previous day.
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The week ahead
| Tuesday |
The Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale opens at Fairyhouse, with Part II on Thursday, and Listowel stages the Listed Listowel Stakes |
| Wednesday |
The Listed Foundation Stakes at Goodwood |
| Thursday |
The Cambridgeshire meeting opens at Newmarket with the Group 3 Somerville Tattersall Stakes |
| Friday |
The Rockfel Stakes and the Joel Stakes, both Group 2, and the Group 3 Princess Royal Stakes at Newmarket |
| Saturday |
The Cheveley Park Stakes and the Middle Park Stakes, both Group 1, the Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes and the Cambridgeshire at Newmarket |
| Sunday |
The Group 1 Preis von Europa at Cologne, and the Group 3 Renaissance Stakes and the Irish Cesarewitch at the Curragh |
| 28 September |
The Goffs Orby Sale Book 1 opens at Kildare Paddocks, running over two days |
| 3 October |
Arc weekend opens at ParisLongchamp with the Prix du Cadran and the Prix de Royallieu, and the Arqana Arc Sale follows racing at Saint-Cloud |
| 4 October |
The Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at ParisLongchamp, with the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere and the Prix de l’Abbaye |
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