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Turfling
Europe
Wednesday 4 November 2026
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The lead
Noel Meade reaches 3,000 winners as a trainer at Fairyhouse
Noel Meade reached 3,000 winners as a trainer at Fairyhouse on Tuesday, Mickey Cohen getting up by a nose under Sam Ewing in the Christmas Parties At Fairyhouse December 12th Handicap Hurdle. Meade was 19 when he first took out his licence in 1970, and his first winner came on Tu Va at Wexford in 1971. He had stood on 2,999 since Wynette won at Navan on 21 October.
Meade told the Press Association he had not been aware he was coming up to the mark, that since being told it had been like looking for hen’s teeth, and that he thought this one was beaten as well. Seven times Ireland’s champion National Hunt trainer, the 75 year old has had seven Cheltenham Festival winners, the most recent The Mourne Rambler in the Champion Bumper in March (At The Races)
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Things to know today
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Brendan Powell broke his arm in a fall at Plumpton on Monday, the rider going down at the first fence on Joe Tizzard’s Diamond Days in the Southern Contract Novices’ Handicap Chase, horse and rider colliding with the running rail. He was taken to hospital in Brighton by ambulance, which delayed the following race. His father said an X-ray at about 7.30pm confirmed the arm is broken in two places, that no decision on surgery had been made 12 or 13 hours later, and that an injury of the kind normally takes six to eight weeks (At The Races) |
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Warwick’s Class 3 beginners’ chase went to Un Sens A La Vie over two miles in 4m 7.73s, Sam Twiston-Davies riding for Nigel and Willy Twiston-Davies with two of them going to post. Sean Bowen won twice on the card for Olly Murphy, on Thisonesforyou in the Class 4 juvenile maiden hurdle in 3m 50.43s and on Woodstock City in the Class 5 handicap hurdle in 3m 43.44s, and Harry Skelton took the Class 4 novices’ hurdle over two miles three furlongs on Dan Skelton’s Trigg (At The Races) |
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Moves Like Gold opened the Lingfield card for K Burke, Mr H Hunt bringing him home in the Class 5 open maiden National Hunt flat race over two miles in 3m 40.80s from eight runners. B Pauling’s The Perfect Poet took the Class 4 novices’ hurdle over the same trip under Ben Jones from eleven, and James Owen’s Chosen Hero won the Class 5 mares’ handicap hurdle under J J Burke (At The Races) |
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Jambearee took the Class 4 Green Howards Museum Richmond Juvenile Hurdle over two miles one furlong at Sedgefield for B Ellison in 4m 6.30s, B S Hughes completing a double on C E Longsdon’s Roxy Russet in the Class 4 mares’ maiden hurdle over two miles four furlongs. Rebecca Hitchen opened the card on S England’s Jeteye in the conditional jockeys’ handicap chase over three miles two and a half furlongs, four of them going to post (At The Races) |
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Ryan Moore has told Richard Hughes he will not put up overweight on Nobody Knows in the November Handicap at Doncaster, the three year old set to carry 8st 10lb. Moore got down to 8st 8lb on Precise at Keeneland and rode all three of Aidan O’Brien’s Breeders’ Cup winners, Sun Goddess, Haffner and Benvenuto Cellini. Hughes said the colt had been minded all year because the ground went against him, and that he was squeezed out and finished strongly when fifth at York last month on his first start since April (At The Races) |
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Rebecca Curtis expects good ground to keep Newton Tornado out of the BetMGM Handicap Chase at Aintree, a rearranged running of the abandoned Badger Ales Trophy from Wincanton in which the seven year old is one of 19 entries. Curtis said she still thinks him a very decent three mile chaser but that soft ground is quite important to him and no rain is forecast this week, and that he had a small wind operation towards the end of last year after making a noise at Cheltenham, where he pulled up in the National Hunt Chase (At The Races) |
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Gavin Cromwell will start Inothewayurthinkin in the Betfair Chase at Haydock rather than the John Durkan Memorial Chase at Punchestown, where the JP McManus owned eight year old has been run off his feet in each of the past two seasons. Cromwell said the Haydock race looks a good starting place and that he is hoping for rain so the ground suits, that the bigger field should let the horse get into a rhythm, and that the 2025 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner is coming along nicely at home (At The Races) |
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Olly Murphy is taking Strong Leader back to Newbury for the Long Distance Hurdle, the gelding having won Wetherby’s West Yorkshire Hurdle for a second time on Saturday under Sean Bowen while giving weight to Lavida Adiva and Take No Chances. Murphy said the horse came out of Wetherby as well as he ever has, that people love to knock him because he is a little inconsistent, and that a winner of one Grade 1 and three Grade 2s with more than 400,000 pounds earned is a long way off being done (At The Races) |
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International
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Australasia
The Melbourne Cup winner carried the royal colours in July
Point Of Law won the Bahrain Trophy at Newmarket in July for John and Thady Gosden in the colours of the King and Queen, and was then bought privately by Wathnan Racing before taking the Lexus Melbourne Cup. Ciaron Maher, who had also won the Geelong Cup with him on his first start for the yard, trained the first three home, Zahrann second and Juja Kibo third, with Joseph O’Brien’s Sons And Lovers fourth. Ethan Brown said he tried to stay patient, cut the bend, and found an enormous turn of foot once he got a clear run (At The Races)
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America
Keatley points Hell Of A Spin at the Commonwealth Cup
Adrian Keatley said Hell Of A Spin finished best of the rest behind George Boughey’s Libertango in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, the North Yorkshire trainer calling the filly very good and saying the few pounds his colt was giving her caught them out. The Naval Crown colt was placed in the Molecomb, the Gimcrack and the Middle Park earlier in the year, and Keatley plans a trial, the Sandy Lane Stakes at Haydock among them, with the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot the major target (At The Races)
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Markets overnight
Those four are the Tuesday 3 November close. Four of the eight figures we normally carry are not stated this morning. The DAX is omitted because the sources reachable from here gave three different values for the same session and two different percentage moves, so no single closing figure could be confirmed. Gold and Brent crude are omitted because the figures available were dated to a session still in progress rather than to a completed close, and the pages carrying them disagreed with themselves. Bitcoin is omitted because no price source could be read at all. Nothing has been estimated and nothing has been carried forward from an earlier close.
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The week ahead
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The Big Westerner won the Listed Michael Hickey Memorial Chase over two miles seven furlongs at Wexford by 15 lengths, Darragh O’Keeffe sending Henry de Bromhead’s seven year old mare to the front and accounting for her three rivals, Mouse Morris’s Bossofthebrownies the only one to get close. She had been off for 312 days. De Bromhead said she jumped great, did everything right and looked to really enjoy herself, that she is in the Betfair Chase but it feels like it could be too soon, and that they will do more on softer ground this year and will not be so Cheltenham focused. The win completed a double on the card for de Bromhead, O’Keeffe and owners Coolmara Stables Limited, Palinca having impressed on debut in the Racing TV Free Trial For A Month Maiden Hurdle with an 11 length victory. Musselburgh, Nottingham, Chepstow, Kempton and Dundalk also raced (Irish Examiner) |
| 6 November |
The BetMGM Handicap Chase at Aintree |
| 7 November |
The November Handicap over a mile and a half at Doncaster, the final day of the Flat turf season in Britain |
| 11 November |
A 0 to 150 handicap chase at Bangor |
| 21 November |
The Grade 1 Betfair Chase over three miles at Haydock |
| 22 November |
The Grade 1 John Durkan Memorial Chase over two and a half miles at Punchestown |
| 27 November |
The Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury |
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