#taghrooda

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Champion Taghrooda has foaled her first foal, a filly by her former stable companion and fellow champion, Kingman, 25 February 2016.

Photo: www.racehorsephotos.co.uk Taghrooda at Epsom, 6 June 2014

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Champion filly Taghrooda as baby back in 2011.

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Not only has Sheikh Hamdan's super filly Taghrooda been retired from racing today, 13 October 2014, the sheikh's Mukhadram has been retired as well.

Mukhadram’s final race was to be the Champion Stakes at Ascot on 18 October, but “it became apparent the ground would be too soft for him to contest his end of season target …” Read more here.

"Mukhadram's retired too. It's too wet at Ascot, but he's been a tough, consistent performer and he's a fine, big, good-looking horse so we hope he'll appeal to breeders," said the sheikh's racing manager Angus Gold.

While Taghrooda will join her owner’s broodmare band, Mukhadram will be retired to his owner's Shadwell Stud.

The William Haggas-trained son of Shamardal and Magic Tree, foaled on 6 April 2009, is the winner of five races from 16 starts, including the 2012 Wood Ditton Stakes, 2013 Brigadier Gerard Stakes and this year’s Coral-Eclipse Stakes. He ran second in the 2013 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes behind Al Kazeem, third in the 2013 Coral-Eclipse also behind Al Kazeem, second to African Story in the 2014 Dubai World Cup and third behind Taghrooda in the King George VI and Queen Elizabets Stakes. He won £1,968,250 in pricemoney.

Happy and long retirement, my boy. <3

Photo: www.racehorsephotos.co.uk Mukhadram at Ascot after the King George at Ascot, 26 July 2014

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Taghrooda, in my eyes one of the greatest fillies ever, has been retired today, 13 October 2014.

The talented daughter of champion Sea The Stars and Ezima won her four first four starts, a Maiden Fillies’ Stakes at Newmarket in 2013, followed by the 2014 Pretty Polly Stakes, Epsom Oaks, and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot, in which she defeated colts and older horses. She then ran a very close second to Tapestry in the Yorkshire Oaks, and finishes third behind Trêve in what would become her last race, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

Her breeder/owner Hamdan Al Maktoum and trainer John Gosden decided to retire their star after discussions, and she will join her owner’s broodmare band for 2015 and on.

Angus Gold, racing manager for the sheikh, said: "Taghrooda has been retired. She has been wonderful, and will be missed. In my time not since Salsabil have we had a filly this good, which shows how rare they are." Read more here.

Happy and long retirement, Taghrooda, <3 You will surely be missed on the track.

Photo: www.racehorsephotos.co.uk Taghrooda at Epsom on Oaks day, 6 June 2014

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Oaks winner Taghrooda retired

Oaks winner Taghrooda retired

King George and Investec Oaks winner Taghrooda retired

King George and Investec Oaks winner Taghrooda retired Sky Sports Racing News

Oaks and King George winner Taghrooda has been retired and will join her owner-breeder Hamdan Al Maktoum’s broodmares next year.

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Mighty Treve wins Prix de lArc de Triomphe for second year running

Mighty Treve wins Prix de lArc de Triomphe for second year running

Filly is runaway winner of worlds richest turf race Trainer had insisted runner was back to her best

I think we all had our doubts at some stage, Harry Herbert, the winning owners racing manager, said after Treve had become the first dual winner of the Prix de lArc de Triomphe since the 1970s here on Sunday. There were downs and depressions, maybe shes not trained on. But not once did the trainer…

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Reunited again, Trêve and Thierry Jarnet (bordeaux cap) won their second Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp and won it for France again, 5 October 2014.

The full result: 2nd: France's Flintshire with Maxime Guyon (pink cap) 3rd: England's Taghrooda with Paul Hanagan (far right, blue/white cap)  4th: England's Kingston Hill with Andrea Atzeni (dark blue cap)  5th: France's Dolniya with Christophe Soumillon (green cap)   6th: Japan's Harp Star with Yuga Kawada 7th: France's Prince Gibraltar with Jean-Bernard Eyquem (far left, behind the winners)  8th: Japan's Just A Way with Yuichi Fukunaga (behind Flintshire)  9th: Ireland's Ruler Of The World with Frankie Dettori   10th: England's Al Kazeem with James Doyle   11th: France's Avenir Certain with Christophe-Patrice Lemaire (centre, blue cap) 12th: France's Siljan's Saga with Pierre-Charles Boudot (red cap)  13th: Ireland's Tapestry with Ryan Moore (navy blue silks) 14th: Japan's Gold Ship with Norihiro Yokoyama 15th: Ireland's Chicquita with Joseph O'Brien 16th: France's Spiritjim with Stephane Pasquier 17th: France's Ectot with Grégory Benoist 18th: Germany's Ivanhowe with William Buick (black cap) 19th: France's Free Port Lux with Mickaël Barzalona (behind Kingston Hill) 20th: France's Montviron, who was eased up halfway down the straight, with Cyrille Stefan (purple cap)

Congratulations to all connections! :-)

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Gosden calls Mirror front-page picture of Wigmore Hall shooting satanic

Gosden calls Mirror front-page picture of Wigmore Hall shooting satanic

Newmarket trainer hits out at use of Animal Aid photograph Arc hope Taghrooda to have track gallop on Wednesday RSPCA step into row over tabloid photographs of horse death Animal Aid smear story causes hurt but keeps it in business

John Gosden became the latest racing professional to express outrage at the Daily Mirror on Tuesday when he used the word satanic to describe that papers decision to put…

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