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Welcome to the website

Thank you for visiting the website of Ed Dunlop. You can keep up to date with all the latest news and you will find a wealth of information about ownership at La Grange Stables, plus more about his career, and successes to date.

Ed will forever be associated with that brilliant globetrotting racemare Ouija Board, who earned record prize money for a filly or mare trained in Britain when amassing more than £3.5m on her travels, which took in America, where she twice won the Breeders Cup Filly & Mare Turf, Hong Kong, Japan, Dubai, France and Ireland, a period during which she mopped up an incredible seven Group 1’s.

Lord Derby’s Ouija Board, seven lengths heroine of the Oaks in 2004, only once failed to make the frame in 11 Group/Grade 1 races overseas. She was named Horse of the Year in 2006 by the Racehorse Owners Association, and that same season she ran away with the Eclipse Award for best female turf horse in North America, the second time that she won that prestigious award. Ouija Board’s first foal, a colt by Kingmambo, has been named Voodoo Prince and is in training with Ed as a two-year-old for the 2010 season.

However, while Ouija Board has pride of place in the Ed Dunlop scrapbook, he is the first to concede that progress never sleeps, and, having spent 15 years at Gainsborough Stables on the Hamilton Road, where he worked for the late Sheikh Maktoum Al-Maktoum, Ed moved to the historic La Grange Stables at the start of 2009 to begin the next chapter in his training career. Ed and his team will never forget the likes of Ta Rib, who got them off to a dream start when winning the Dubai Poule d’Essai des Pouliches at Longchamp, Lailani, victorious in the Kildangan Irish Oaks at The Curragh, Vodafone Nassau Stakes at Goodwood and the Flower Bowl at Belmont, having started her seven-race winning spree in a maiden at Windsor, the evergreen Court Masterpiece, who bagged both the Sussex Stakes and the Prix de la Foret, and other Group 1 winners such as Fraulein (EP Taylor Stakes), Night Style (Gran Criterium, Milan) and Iktamal (Haydock Sprint Cup). But switching yards was the start of a new era and it was fantastic to celebrate another Oaks triumph in only his second season at La Grange, courtesy of Snow Fairy, who produced that dazzling slalom-type run up the straight at Epsom to win the Investec-sponsored classic in such devastating fashion in 2010. Snow Fairy, bred by owner Cristina Patino, who runs her under her Anamoine Ltd company banner, was supplemented for the Oaks at a cost of £20,000 after winning the Height of Fashion Stakes at Goodwood, and, though Ed is the first to admit that he thought the filly “would not stay”, champion jockey Ryan Moore convinced him otherwise after riding her in a piece of work before Epsom, and the rest, as they say, is history!

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> e: angela@eddunlopracing.co.uk