News from the Farms - 2023 Rafeef first foal out of Roll In The Hay is developing well.

Roll In The Hay won the listed Lady's Pendent and 4 times in total.

News from the Farms - 2023 born ERUPT out of MY KAZZIE will be retained by Team Valor for racing in South Africa. The smart My Kazzie (2nd G1 Golden Slipper & G1 Thekweni Fillies Stakes. Listed winner of the East Cape Paddock Stakes) had 4 wins from 16 starts.

Frances Ethel headlines the Grade 1 Woolavington 2000 at Greyville on Saturday. The final field for the event has the 3 yo SA Oaks star against 10 others including older Fillies over the 2000m. The Team Valor filly is the highest rated horse and is listed as the 7/2 favourite.

The Charleston is carded to run in race 8 at Kenilworth on Tuesday. The Candice Bass-Robinson inmate has Morne Winnaar in the saddle for Cape B Stakes over 5f (1000m).

Just Great has been carded to run on Monday at Parx in race 9, an Allowance Optional. The 3 year old filly is to be ridden by Mychel Sanchez for Arnaud Delacour from post 7. Her morning line odds are 5/1.

Feather Boa claimed the Highveld Champion Older Filly of the Season award at a glittering ceremony in Johannesburg last night. She is currently in the US & completes CEM testing Wednesday in Maryland then goes to Todd Pletcher in New York along with Champion Bless My Stars.

Update on Crystal Estrella who will take her place in today's G2 Oleander-Rennen.

She is now the third choice in the betting after Lordano's scratching.

Assistant is favored, 5/2, with Lordano's stablemate Alessio next 4/1 followed by our mare, 5/1. Soft ground is a plus

Calmly got run out of it late in the listed Paolo Mezzanotte in Milan after running on well at the business end. Second in the end but a game performance.

Crystal Estrella (Iffraaj - Crystal Etoile (Dansili)) will run in the Oleander-Rennen G2 at Hoppegarten in Berlin on Sunday. The trip is over 16f (3200m) on the turf. Andreas Wohler trains with jockey Eduardo Pedroza in the saddle for the event.

Calmly is running on Saturday in the Paolo Mezzanotte (L) over 11f on the turf in Milan. Antonio Orani is booked for the ride.

T'CHALLA has been confirmed to run in a Novice Stakes at Newmarket (Rowley Mile course) on Friday over the mile. The Kingman colt out of Ebony Flyer is drawn in pole position and has Kevin Stott in the saddle for Andrew Balding. He finished a smart second on debut in late April.

Elysian Field will race at Aqueduct over 8.5f on the Turf at Allowance Optional level on Friday. Javier Castellano is in the saddle for Mark Casse. The Canadian Champion 3 yo Filly has been scratched due to off conditions of late and has been waiting for her turf run.

Team Valor's Frances Ethel is the highest rated entry for the G1 Woolavington 2000 to be run at Greyville in Durban, South Africa on the 25th of May. The 3yo filly is trained by Brett Crawford and recently won the SA Oaks G2 at Turffontein.

Rider Wayne Hassett on Uluru, with his post race feedback after a close second place finish on Tuesday at Killarney in a Fillies Race over the extended mile.

Uluru (white cap) ran a smart race at Killarney this afternoon when just being touched off at the wire. The Fillies Race for 3 yos was over the extended mile trip. The other Team Valor entry, Orderofthephoenix, was third.

Listed winner and G2 placed Calmly by Dubawi (IRE) out of Shama (IRE) by Danehill Dancer enjoying the sun at her stables last week. She runs on the 18th of May in a listed event in Milan.

Orderofthephoenix and Uluru are both running in Fillies conditions race at Killarney on Tue at 1750 as race 2. Uluru has Wayne Hassett in the irons for Joseph O'Brien whilst Orderofthephoenix has Ronan Whelan in the saddle for Adrian McGuinness in the mile contest on the turf.

Update: It's raining at Paris Longchamp. Team Valor were going to scratch Go Atlethico from his feature Sprint event today if it didn't rain. But since he loves the soft, he will stay in the race and we're hoping he goes really well for us today.

Video of the Irish bred 3yo filly bought by Team Valor this week. Liefland is by Camacho (GB) out of Midsomer Mist (IRE) and is trained by Sascha Smrczek in Germany. She is unbeaten one from one.

Team Valor has purchased and successfully syndicated Liefland, an Irish bred 3yo filly. Liefland is by Camacho (GB) out of Midsomer Mist (IRE) and is trained by Sascha Smrczek in Germany. She will continue to train the filly for the partnership.