GII Remsen S. victor Mohaymen (Tapit) exited his victory well, according to trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. “That was big,” McLaughlin said Moyhaymen's run Saturday. “[Jockey] Junior [Alvarado] had worked him behind horses. You never know but you need to be ready for it. I think it helped a lot, for jockey and horse, because [Alvarado] was [...]

The Christophe Clement stable was understandably pleased with its one-two showing in the GI Cigar Mile at Aqueduct Saturday. 'TDN Rising Star' Tonalist (Tapit) and Red Vine (Candy Ride {Arg}) gave the stable the prestigious exacta. “I'm OK admitting I was very worried at the three-sixteenths pole,” Christophe Lorieul, assistant to Clement said of Tonalist's [...]

This is a new wrinkle in our market analysis this year. We know that the yearling sales are a better barometer of the overall auction marketplace than the mixed sales, because the pedigrees of over nearly 10,000 yearlings sold (see the Weekly Sales Ticker from Nov. 15–click here) are more stable, whereas the composition of [...]

Grade I-winning millionaire Mr Speaker (Pulpit–Salute, by Unbridled) has been retired to Lane's End Farm, where he will stand the 2016 breeding season for $10,000 as property of a syndicate. Trained by Hall of Famer Shug McGaughey on behalf of breeder Phipps Stable, the dark bay annexed the 2013 GIII Dania Beach S. late in [...]

John Oxley's Airoforce (Colonel John), winner of the GII Kentucky Jockey Club S., and Conquest Stables' Conquest Big E (Tapit), who captured a Churchill allowance Saturday, ship to Palm Meadows Tuesday with the rest of trainer Mark Casse's runners. “They'll probably get a couple of weeks of just hanging out in the round pen,” assistant [...]

12.30 Deauville, Cond, €34,000, 2yo, c/g, 7 1/2f (AWT) TAAREEF (Kitten's Joy) bids to build on a winning debut at Bordeaux-le-Bouscat in September for Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Jean-Claude Rouget. The $675,000 KEESEP graduate bred by Dixiana Farm faces seven rivals who lack his unexposed profile. 3.50 Kempton, Mdn, £6,600, 2yo, f, 8f (AWT) [...]

By Chris McGrath The headline achievements of any season tend to be credited to specific horses in specific races. But trainers know better than to measure the daily challenges of their vocation solely by champions as exceptional as Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) or American Pharoah, (Pioneerof The Nile) and will duly recognize as [...]

By John Berry There are promising young stallions aplenty in Australia, but it can be harder for New Zealand studmasters to attract the next generation of star sires. The shoes of horses such as Zabeel (NZ) (Sir Tristram), O'Reilly (NZ) (Last Tycoon (Ire)) and Volksraad (GB) (Green Desert (USA)) take some filling – as, indeed, [...]

The legendary Japanese Horse of the Year Deep Impact (Jpn) (Sunday Silence) has been eligible to be represented by runners in the G1 Japan Cup since his first crop turned three in 2011. It didn't take long for him to make his mark on the race in which he closed his career victoriously in 2006, [...]

Up against it behind the lone speed of American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) when fifth for the second straight year in the GI Breeders' Cup Classic Oct. 31, Tonalist (Tapit) did not look to be going especially well on the turn in Saturday's GI Cigar Mile H., but, guided to the middle of the track [...]

8th-CD, $55K, Msw, 2yo, f, 7 1/2f, 4:05 p.m. ET ROYAL OBSESSION (Tapit), who topped a session of the recent Keeneland November Sale at $1.15 million, makes her much-anticipated debut here. The $550,000 KEENOV weanling and $1-million Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling was already in training with Steve Asmussen prior to being sold as part of the [...]

“TDN Rising Star” Dortmund continued his powerful comeback with an effortless romp in Del Mar's GIII Native Diver S. Saturday. Sitting pretty in a comfortable second as 29-1 shot Majestic City (City Zip) ticked off opening fractions of :23.75 and :47.61, the heavy favorite continued to just canter along into the backstretch run and readily [...]