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Workforce

5 year old Horse | Retired
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Owner(s):
Juddmonte Farms Inc.
Trainer:
Sir Michael Stoute
Bred:
(GB) by Juddmonte Farms Inc.
Pedigree:
King's Best  -  Soviet Moon  by  Sadler's Wells
Rating:
 
 
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What the Horse Racing Nation is saying about Workforce...

WORKFORCE, last year's Derby and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner, has been retired to stud as reported in Monday's Racing Post.The four-year-old will join former stablemate Harbinger in Japan next year where he will stand at Teruya Yoshida's Shadai Farm after a deal was completed by owner Khalid Ab...Read More
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  • yukichan · Dubawi Heights will be there too-- · 195 days ago ·
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  • ILuvTurfRacing · I saw a lot of comments made on YouTube slamming Workforce for his 2011 season. I would argue that it doesn't matter one iota that Workforce didn't win the G3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes by a more impressive margin than many thought he should have? Or that he was narrowly beaten So You Think in the G1 Coral-Eclipse Stakes. Or that he never won the King George. Or that his second Arc run was sub-par. The bottom line with this horse is that what he accomplished as a 3yr.old in 2010 will always be enough for other horsemen to want to breed to him. He smashed the track record in that 2010 Epsom Derby, and in the past 30 years, only the mighty Shergar's win in the 1981 Epsom Derby is any more visually impressive to look at than Workforce's in 2010. Then to follow up a track record Epsom Derby with an Arc De Triomphe win against a stellar field is something that's not been accomplished by a whole lot of 3yr.old's over the years. I'm glad that Workforce has been retired. Because he really had nothing left to prove after he won what was arguably 2 of the biggest G1 races in Europe. · 13 days ago ·
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2010 Arc winner, Workforce has been purchased and is headed to Japan. 
Longchamp's Course Clerk will water the course Saturday night to assure good and fair ground for all the Sunday races.This is very good news for connections of last year's winner, Workforce (King's Best USA), who finds fast ground jarring.  Read More
CONNECTIONS of Galikova reckon the Prix Vermeille winner has a solid chance of becoming just the third three-year-old filly in 30 years to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.The Freddy Head-trained daughter of Galileo is as short as 6-1 to win at Longchamp on Sunday, having won impressively over the ...Read More
WORKFORCE continued his preparation for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on Sunday week with a racecourse gallop at Sandown on Tuesday.Last year's Arc and Derby winner worked over nine furlongs with stablemates Dux Scholar and Confront. Confront led the trio before Workforce was pushed to lead three fu...Read More
  • medlocke · Workforce hasn't been disgraced in any of his races this season by any means. But that said, Workforce also doesn't look nearly the same horse as a 4yr.old that we saw smash the Epsom Derby record and win the Arc as a 3yr.old. In my opinion, you're just throwing $$$ away if you're backing Workforce for a repeat Arc win this year. Sarafina, So You Think, Galikova, Snow Fairy, Reliable Man, and possibly even St Nicholas Abbey are all likely to get home ahead of Workforce at Longchamp this year, IMO. · 249 days ago ·
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  • BrianZipse · A lot will depend on the turf condition at Longchamp. · 249 days ago ·
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Here's your guide to the fall stakes action across the country - you'll want to bookmark this!Read More
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  • mdracing69 · I know how much time and effort went into this. Keep up the great work, Candice! · 254 days ago ·
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  • jeffries1984 · thank you! · 250 days ago ·
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Workforce, who finished second to Nathaniel in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes last month, will miss the Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot in favour of a crack at the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on October 2.The Sir Michael Stoute-trained four-year-old, who won the Arc last season, is being...Read More
NATHANIEL became the first three-year-old since 2003 to win the King George as he edged out Workforce in an eventful running of the race that was marred by a tragic accident that cost Rewilding his life.The King Edward VII Stakes winner was added to the star-studded field at the start of the week at...Read More
The Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot, midsummer highlight of the British racing season, has attracted a select field of five for the first Breeders' Cup Challenge race held in the United Kingdom this year.Read More
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  • BrianZipse · Rewilding all the way! · 310 days ago ·
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  • shores · heartbreaking.... · 310 days ago ·
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Is Aidan O’Brien loaded this year? Are baked potatoes with cheddar cheese, bacon, garlic, butter, and sour cream loaded? Let’s just say that dish is not nearly as rich as the Master of Ballydoyle, whose success in less than four months of racing might be considered bordering on obscene by rival trai...Read More
SO YOU THINK banished memories of his shock Royal Ascot defeat as he got the better of Workforce inan epic duel up the Sandown straight. The race had been built up into an eagerly anticipated head-to-head match between the big two and it did not disappoint as So You Think rallied late on under Seami...Read More
SO YOU THINK has been backed into even-money favouritism for Saturday's Group 1 Coral-Eclipse at Sandown after the sponsors reported taking a £40,000 bet on the Prince Of Wales's Stakes runner-up.The Aidan O'Brien-trained favourite, who was cut from 5-4, faces a mouthwatering clash with last year's ...Read More
  • medlocke · Many people in the UK think this is a publicity ploy. That no one has really laid a $40,000 bet on So You Think? If the $40,000 bet really did happen? It may have something to do with it being widely rumored that So You Think's regular rider when he was in Australia, Steven Arnold, allegedly having contacted Aidan O'Brien and offering his services to ride So You Think in the Coral-Eclipse on Saturday. Ryan Moore had ridden So You Think in both of his G1 starts in Europe. The G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup, and the G1 Prince of Wales's Stakes. But Moore is committed to ride Workforce for Sir Michael Stoute on Saturday. So if Steven Arnold really has offered his services? O'Brien would be foolish to refuse it. Because nobody knows this horse as well as Steven Arnold does. And nobody had ridden him in more G1 stakes races than Steven Arnold has. · 335 days ago ·
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WORKFORCE is set to miss Royal Ascot and what promised to be an intriguing head-to-head with former Australian star So You Think in next Wednesday's Prince of Wales's Stakes.Royal Ascot remained a possibility for the 2010 Derby winner after he made a winning reappearance at Sandown 13 days ago, but ...Read More
  • medlocke · Workforce isn't missing the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal-Ascot. Sir Michael Stoute is dodging So You Think like the plague over 10f. You'll excuse me while I laugh at Horseracingnation.com having Animal Kingdom and Havre De Grace rated higher in their power rating's that So You Think or Black Caviar!! LOL. Black Caviar's the #1 rated sprinter in the world, still unbeaten. So You Think is the best middle distance turf horse in the world. Only out of the $$$ one time in his career, and a 6-time G1 winner. Animal Kingdom or Havre De Grace couldn't come within 5 length's of So You Think, on any surface!! · 353 days ago ·
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SI read with interest a recent blog posting on another racing website in which the writer lamented, “Where are all the stars?” The subject matter concerned the North American racing scene, which seems to be lacking in some serious ‘star power’ so far this season. o---where are all the stars? Why sho...Read More
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  • icyhotboo · I read that article posted 05/29/2011 and on 05/28/2011 I posted this:I don't see the talent!Out of 13 other horses running not one could keep the pressue on in either the 2nd or 3rd quarter.The time was for a muddy track.Even many of the preaknesses run in the mud went faster than that.If your looking for some kind of really good horse look in the filly division the colts have nothing.AK is a good horse THIS year but not in other years. · 364 days ago ·
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  • bigfootmauler · i agree icy! race too early break down at a young age. look at the 3 year olds.. jaycito premier.. started WAY too early.. look at Z.. started at a good age and came out on top as well! · 364 days ago ·
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WORKFORCE confirmed himself in rude health when scything down the front-running Poet in the Brigadier Gerard to register victory on his first start as a four-year-old. Read More
  • medlocke · Ryan Moore has been Sir Michael Stoute's stable jockey for a long time now. But with the defection of Johnny Murtagh as Ballydoyle's stable jockey this year, Aidan O'Brien has been using Ryan Moore as much as possible on his best horses in major stakes races. Provided that Sir Michale Stoute doesn't have horse entered in the race, too. Moore has ridden the Australian superstar, So You Think, in both of his first two European races since he was transfered to Ballydoyle in Ireland from Bart Cummings stable in Australia. So You Think has won both the G3 Mooresbride Stakes and G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup in Ireland impressively. With Ryan Moore having ridden him in both races. At the end of yesterday's G3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown, where Workforce had defeated a very deep field, Moore was interviewed by RacingUK. He was asked, "you've ridden So You Think and Workforce, which do you prefer"? Moore smiled, refused to comment, patted the RacingUK announcer on the shoulder 2 or 3 times, and walked away. If Moore really believed that Workforce was the better horse of those two after winning the Brigadier Gerard Stakes? Why wouldn't he have said so for the record? Since he rides primarily for Sir Michael Stoute anyway. The problem is, I just didn't get the impression from the short interview that Moore really believed that Workforce was a better horse than So You Think? · 366 days ago ·
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WORKFORCE will "really need" his comeback run at Sandown on Thursday night, trainer Sir Michael Stoute has warned. Stoute admitted to concerns over last year's Derby and Arc winner, who will be having his first run since October and his first over 1m2f in more than a year when he lines up in the Gro...Read More
  • medlocke · Today's G3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown was a strong G3 field by anybody's standards. Three different G1 winners in the field in Workforce, Jan Vermeer, and Cavalryman. Plus the likes of Elusive Pimpernel, Afsare, Poet, Distant Memories, and Black Spirit. The horses that you thought might give Workforce a tough go of it in the race, i.e., Jan Vermeer, Elusive Pimpernel, Cavalryman, and Asfare never really figured. That said, Workforce made very hard work of beating a listed level horse in Poet today. The race was still in question inside the final half-furlong. But Workforce managed to pull out the win by a half-length in the final 100 yards. Workforce had originally been slated to make his 2011 seasonal debut in Ireland in the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup. But was immediately withdrawn when Ballydoyle trainer, Aidan O'Brien, announced he would be entering the Australian wonder horse, So You Think, in the race. From what I've seen out of So You Think in his first 2 European starts of 2011, and seeing Workforce in his seasonal debut today, there's no way, IMO, that Workforce could handle So You Think over 10f. So You Think would just out-pace him badly. And frankly, after seeing So You Think stay out a 2 mile trip so strongly in the 2010 Melbourne Cup, I'm not really too sure that Workforce will fare much better with So You Think over 12f either? TJMO. · 367 days ago ·
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  • Waya · Workforce vs. So You Think next??? What a race that will be! · 367 days ago ·
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According to Prince Khallad Abdullah's racing manager for Juddmonte Farms, Workforce will begin his 2011 campaign in Ireland in May in the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup. Ending the speculation that he would start the 2011 season at Epsom in the G1 Coronation Cup. Although, I personally don't see any reason why Workforce couldn't run in both races? Provided he comes out of the Tattersalls Gold Cup in good order? Aidan O'Brien's colt, Fame and Glory, won both of those races in 2010.
Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) winner Blame has been judged the best horse to race in North America during 2010 by the compilers of the World Thoroughbred Rankings, unveiled in London, England, on Tuesday, Jan. 11.Blame, who just held the late burst of the previously unbeaten Zenyatta by a head in th...Read More
He is nowhere near as good as people think I'm afraid....
GOLDIKOVA (Ire) (Anabaa) was named Cartier Horse of the Year at the 2010 Cartier Racing Awards Tuesday night, and the exceptional mare was also awarded the Cartier Older Horse Award for the second year running. The 20th annual awards were announced before an invited audience of 350 at the Dorchester...Read More

Workforce - Pedigree

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King's BestKingmamboMr. Prospector
Miesque
AllegrettaLombard
Anatevka
Soviet MoonSadler's WellsNorthern Dancer
Fairy Bridge
Eva LunaAlleged
Media Luna

Workforce - Race Results & Past Performances

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View DetailsView Video10/02/1112thR MooreLon61 1/2mTPrix de l'Arc de Triomphe-G103+ MDanedreamSharetaSnow Fairy2:24.49
View Details07/23/112ndR MooreAsc11 1/2mTKing George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes-G103+ MNathanielWorkforceSt Nicholas Abbey2:35.07
View DetailsView Video07/02/112ndR MooreSan11 1/4 mTCoral-Eclipse-G103+ MSo You ThinkWorkforceSri Putra2:04.77
View DetailsView Video05/23/111stR MooreSan31 1/4 mTBrigadier Gerard Stakes-G304+ MWorkforcePoetJan Vermeer2:09.97
View DetailsView Video10/03/101stR MooreLon61 1/2mTPrix de l'Arc de Triomphe-G103+ MWorkforceNakayama FestaSarafina2:35.30
View DetailsView Video07/24/105thR MooreAsc61 1/2mTKing George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes-G103+ MHarbingerCape BlancoYoumzain2:26.78
View Details06/05/101stR MooreEps31 1/2mTInvestec Derby-G103 MWorkforceAt First SightRewilding2:31.33
View Details05/13/102ndR MooreYor31 5/16 mTDante Stakes-G203 MCape BlancoWorkforceVictor Delight2:06.70
View Details09/23/091stR MooreGoo17 fTMaiden Stakes02 MWorkforceOasis DancerExceedthewildman1:27.40

 

 

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