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John Gosden and co-trainer son Thady will take aim at the Breeders’ Cup next Saturday 5th November with multiple Group 1 winners Nashwa and Mishriff, both of whom were reported to be in fine form this week ahead of their engagements at Keeneland Racecourse. In a two-part Team British Racing feature, John Gosden reflected on the year so far for both horses and how each is suited to the challenge ahead.

2022 has been a landmark year for George Boughey, as he registered a first Classic success with Cachet in the Group 1 QIPCO 1,000 Guineas. That filly has been somewhat of a flagbearer for Boughey, as twelve months ago, she became the stable’s first Breeders’ Cup runner, finishing 4th in the Juvenile Fillies' Turf at Del Mar. A year on and Boughey has his eyes set on the US end of season showpiece once again, this time with Via Sistina*.

* Since this story was published, Via Sistina has been scratched from the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.

The initial catalogue features 1,552 lots and includes more than 70 Group or Listed performers. The sale will offer progressive horses in training combined with fillies and mares from outstanding international families, plus drafts from leading racing operations such as Juddmonte, Godolphin and Shadwell.

BAAEED (GB) was unable to round out his sparkling career with a win in the Group 1 QIPCO Champion Stakes at Ascot Racecourse on QIPCO British Champions Day, and it was instead BAY BRIDGE (GB) who took the honours, holding off a persistent ADAYAR through the final stages of the 1 mile 2 furlong contest.

Two weeks after proving himself the ‘Seven Furlong King’ with a sixth triumph at that trip in the Group 1 Prix de la Foret, KINROSS (GB) showed that he can do it as six furlongs too with a dominant display in the Group 1 QIPCO British Champions Sprint Stakes at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday.

DURSTON (GB) became the third individual Group 1 winner bred at Lanwades Stud this year after winning the Caulfield Cup in Melbourne. In doing so, the gelding gave Lanwades resident stallion SEA THE MOON a second Group 1 winner after 2020 Royal Ascot Coronation Stakes laureate ALPINE STAR.

DUBAWI is enjoying an exceptional season, having sired seven winners at the highest level this year and 40 individual black type winners. He has a good chance of furthering his 2022 record on Saturday, with offspring near the top of the market in three of four Group 1 contests as well as the Group 2 on QIPCO British Champions Day at Ascot Racecourse.

CHALDEAN (GB) capped what Whitsbury Manor Stud director Ed Harper has described as “a dream summer” for the Hampshire-based breeding operation when winning the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile Racecourse on Saturday afternoon.

Shaikh Isa Salman and Shaikh Abdulla Al-Khalifa achieved the dream of any owner-breeder on Friday afternoon when winning a Group 1 with COMMISSIONING (GB), a filly they bred and reared at Highclere Stud in Berkshire.

The leading lights of the late Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms stallion roster at Banstead Manor Stud shone bright at ParisLongchamp on Sunday afternoon, as ALPINISTA (GB) and KINROSS (GB) delivered a sensational Group 1 double for sires FRANKEL (GB) and KINGMAN (GB), respectively.