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Powys County Times
a day ago
- Sport
- Powys County Times
Flora Of Bermuda joins Wathnan team ahead of Ascot
Wathnan Racing have added Andrew Balding's Flora Of Bermuda to their growing team of stars. The Emir of Qatar's operation are no strangers to racing's transfer market and have now swooped for the Group Three winner who has become a real player on the sprinting scene. Third behind the Wathnan-owned Kind Of Blue at Ascot on British Champions Day, she got within a neck of Inisherin at York on her comeback run in the 1895 Duke Of York Clipper Stakes and is short as 16-1 for the King Charles III Stakes and 12-1 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot. Wathnan's Racing Adviser Richard Brown said: 'We were impressed with her comeback run at York, and it looks as if she can hold her own against the very best. 'Andrew and his team have done a fine job with her, campaigning her with great consistency in the highest class. With luck, one of these big ones will fall her way. She certainly won't fail for lack of courage.'
Leader Live
29-05-2025
- Sport
- Leader Live
Inisherin coming to the boil for Royal Ascot run
The son of Shamardal defied a 249-day absence when showing plenty of heart to deny Andrew Balding's Flora Of Bermuda in the 1895 Duke of York Stakes, but having admitted the four-year-old headed to the Knavesmire 'undercooked', his handler is expecting a sharper model to head to the Royal meeting. 'He's come out of York brilliantly. He went there undercooked for one reason or another, but his class helped him get away with it,' said Ryan. 'He's going to improve an awful lot for York and he's actually sort of woken up a lot for it and being to the races and getting competitive again.' Inisherin delivered what his trainer termed an 'electric' performance to scoop the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot last season and he is as short as 4-1 for a second successive win at the meeting in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes, a race Ryan landed in 2020 with Hello Youmzain. The handler added: 'Ascot will be his next run and we can go there under not as much pressure training-wise with the first run out of the way. 'His performance there in the Commonwealth Cup was electric and if we can get him there in the same shape, I can't see why he wouldn't run a big race again.'
Glasgow Times
29-05-2025
- Sport
- Glasgow Times
Inisherin coming to the boil for Royal Ascot run
The son of Shamardal defied a 249-day absence when showing plenty of heart to deny Andrew Balding's Flora Of Bermuda in the 1895 Duke of York Stakes, but having admitted the four-year-old headed to the Knavesmire 'undercooked', his handler is expecting a sharper model to head to the Royal meeting. 'He's come out of York brilliantly. He went there undercooked for one reason or another, but his class helped him get away with it,' said Ryan. 'He's going to improve an awful lot for York and he's actually sort of woken up a lot for it and being to the races and getting competitive again.' Inisherin delivered what his trainer termed an 'electric' performance to scoop the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot last season and he is as short as 4-1 for a second successive win at the meeting in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes, a race Ryan landed in 2020 with Hello Youmzain. The handler added: 'Ascot will be his next run and we can go there under not as much pressure training-wise with the first run out of the way. 'His performance there in the Commonwealth Cup was electric and if we can get him there in the same shape, I can't see why he wouldn't run a big race again.'
Rhyl Journal
29-05-2025
- Sport
- Rhyl Journal
Inisherin coming to the boil for Royal Ascot run
The son of Shamardal defied a 249-day absence when showing plenty of heart to deny Andrew Balding's Flora Of Bermuda in the 1895 Duke of York Stakes, but having admitted the four-year-old headed to the Knavesmire 'undercooked', his handler is expecting a sharper model to head to the Royal meeting. 'He's come out of York brilliantly. He went there undercooked for one reason or another, but his class helped him get away with it,' said Ryan. 'He's going to improve an awful lot for York and he's actually sort of woken up a lot for it and being to the races and getting competitive again.' Inisherin delivered what his trainer termed an 'electric' performance to scoop the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot last season and he is as short as 4-1 for a second successive win at the meeting in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes, a race Ryan landed in 2020 with Hello Youmzain. The handler added: 'Ascot will be his next run and we can go there under not as much pressure training-wise with the first run out of the way. 'His performance there in the Commonwealth Cup was electric and if we can get him there in the same shape, I can't see why he wouldn't run a big race again.'
North Wales Chronicle
29-05-2025
- Sport
- North Wales Chronicle
Inisherin coming to the boil for Royal Ascot run
The son of Shamardal defied a 249-day absence when showing plenty of heart to deny Andrew Balding's Flora Of Bermuda in the 1895 Duke of York Stakes, but having admitted the four-year-old headed to the Knavesmire 'undercooked', his handler is expecting a sharper model to head to the Royal meeting. 'He's come out of York brilliantly. He went there undercooked for one reason or another, but his class helped him get away with it,' said Ryan. 'He's going to improve an awful lot for York and he's actually sort of woken up a lot for it and being to the races and getting competitive again.' Inisherin delivered what his trainer termed an 'electric' performance to scoop the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot last season and he is as short as 4-1 for a second successive win at the meeting in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes, a race Ryan landed in 2020 with Hello Youmzain. The handler added: 'Ascot will be his next run and we can go there under not as much pressure training-wise with the first run out of the way. 'His performance there in the Commonwealth Cup was electric and if we can get him there in the same shape, I can't see why he wouldn't run a big race again.'
