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The top spot on the second day of selling at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale belonged to a son of the high flying Too Darn Hot (GB), offered as Lot 499 by Gilgai Farm, who provided a number of the top lots on Monday. The dark brown colt is out of Baveno (Street Cry {Ire}),...
Aesterius, new to Bearstone Stud for 2026, has had his first mares scanned in foal. Among them is the Showcasing mare Ladiapur, a half-sister to the stakes performer Rockymountainway and out of the dual stakes-performing sprinter The Wagon Wheel. Further mares booked to visit the classy sprinter by Mehmas include Epping Rose (Kodiac), dam of...
The Irish Flat season is a matter of weeks away, with the opening day of the season kicking off at the Curragh on March 15, where the €100,000 Irish Lincoln takes centre stage. There will be Classic clues aplenty on April 12, when the 2,000 and 1,000 Guineas Trials, along with the Ballysax Stakes, a...
The Frankie Lor-trained Stormy Grove (Toronado) came from a long way back to cause an upset in Sunday’s HK$13 million Hong Kong Classic Cup at Sha Tin, showing a serious turn of foot to stamp his authority on the contest and register a one-length verdict. Invincible Ibis (Hellbent) was second, with another half a length...
Romantic Warrior (Acclamation) barely came out of second gear as he repeated his 2024 success in the HK$13-million Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup at Sha Tin on Sunday, emulating the likes of Viva Pataca (2008 and 2009), Designs On Rome (2015 and 2016) and Golden Sixty (2021 and 2023) as a dual winner of the...
Members of the racing community in Dubai for Super Saturday now face an anxious wait for the airport to reopen in the wake of the American and Israeli attacks on Iran which resulted in the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Racing went ahead at Meydan on a day when the Fairmont hotel on Dubai’s Palm...
In an exhibition of pure sprinting prowess, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum’s Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) brought all his power to bear on his rivals on Friday to register back-to-back successes in Goodwood’s G2 King George Qatar S. Despite the contrasting ground conditions to the easy turf he encountered 12 months ago and...
Sunday’s G1 Henkel-Preis der Diana at Dusseldorf was Bee Jersey straightforward for the handicappers, with Stall Ullmann’s June 10 G2 Diana Trial winner Well Timed (Ger) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) justifying 11-5 favouritism in this domestic Classic. Settled second early by Filip Minarik, the bay was joined by Night of England (GB) (Lord of England...
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The 17th edition of the Claiming Crown, held Saturday at Gulfstream Park, generated total handle of $10,118,000–up 0.57% from 2014 despite rainy conditions which caused four races to be taken off the turf. Gulfstream was hosting the event for the fourth year. “We’re extremely pleased with the success of Saturday’s Claiming Crown,” said P.J. Campo,...
1st-AQU, $92,500, Msw, 4-20, 2yo, f, 4 1/2f, :52.08, ft. +LADY STARDUST (f, 2, Union Rags–Hallelujah Trail {MSP, $187,430}, by Gilded Time), backed down to 2-5 for the nation’s dominant barn with early juveniles, ran to the money and gave a good first push for her much-hyped freshman sire Union Rags, becoming the Lane’s End...
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