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Brilliant Irish Champion Stakes winner Economics will embark on his stallion career in India after being sold to Poonawalla Stud, bloodstock agent Ajay Anne has confirmed. Trained by William Haggas, Economics took the scalp of Auguste Rodin in that memorable Leopardstown tussle last year. He also won the Dante Stakes in breathtaking fashion earlier on in his three-year-old campaign. The son of Night Of Thunder will join fellow import Territories on the roster at Poonawalla Stud. Anne commented, "Mr Zavaray Poonawalla has a big ambition of improving the breeding stock...

Great Pretender will stand for €10,000 in 2026, Haras de la Hetraie announced via press release on Tuesday. Successful with his progeny on either side of the English Channel, the stallion will likely be standing his final season in 2026, according to the farm. All posted fees exclude VAT. Grade 1 stallion Nirvana Du Berlais will stand for €7,500 and already has a pair of Grade 1 winner in Lulamba and Leader Sport from his first crop of four-year-olds. Bathyrhon's fee remains unchanged at €6,000. He is among the top...

Debut hurdle winner Minella Academy (lot 6) has been added to the catalogue for the Goffs Coral Gold Cup Sale at Newbury Racecourse on Saturday. The Goffs Coral Gold Cup Sale will be held in the winners' enclosure immediately after the last race at 3:35 p.m. By Sea The Moon, the three-year-old won an academy hurdle at Cork on Sunday by eight lengths for John Nallen. His addition brings the number of three-year-old horses-in-training to two, which will sell alongside 18 point-to-point horses. There are several debut point-to-point winners set...

The newly formed Varese Turf & Sport will become the new concession holder of Varese Racecourse on January 1, 2026, the organisation announced on Tuesday. Varese Turf & Sport released a statement which read in part, "The challenges ahead are many and significant, but we are ready to immediately deploy skills, energy, and investments to launch a concrete and long-lasting renewal path for the racecourse. "Our objective is clear: to relaunch the world of horse racing as both a symbol and a driving force of a broader process of enhancement...

A share in Haras du Mesnil stallion Telecaster (lot 24) completes the catalogue for the Arqana Online November Sale on Thursday, November 27. The sale, which includes a breeding right in Mehmas, will take place from 4-6 p.m., French time. A winner of the G2 Dante Stakes at three, the son of New Approach also claimed the G2 Grand Prix de Deauville and G3 La Coupe at four. The half-brother to group winner and Group 1-placed Al Suhail (Dubawi) is out of Shirocco Star (Shirocco), who was placed in both...

Bearstone Stud's new stallion Aesterius will head the 2026 roster at £6,500 with competitive breeding rights also available. Meanwhile, Dream Ahead has had his fee reduced to £5,500 and Washington DC remains at £3,500. All fees are on October 1st Special Life Foal terms.  Terry Holdcroft, Bearstone Stud's owner, said, "We feel our stallions offer exceptional value and are particularly excited to add a new sire to our roster.  Aesterius has settled in well to Bearstone Stud, and as a son of Mehmas and winner of the G2 Flying Childers...

NEWMARKET, UK--After one last push over the top for the yearlings it is safe to say that the team at Tattersalls can reflect on a successful year for that sector of the market after the December Yearling Sale posted record figures across the board. The final tally included the most expensive colt ever sold at this particular auction, a Frankel half-brother to the G2 Queen Mary and G2 Temple Stakes winner Dramatised (Showcasing) out of the Listed-winning Turtle Bowl mare Katie's Diamond. The mare, who had been bought by Joe...

Ace Stud has announced Ben Shoare as nominations manager ahead of the 2026 breeding season. Formerly known as Dullingham Park Stud, the farm just outside Newmarket stands dual Group 1-winning sprinter Shaquille, who has first-crop foals for sale this week at Tattersalls. Shoare joins a team which includes stud manager Ben Hyde and stallion and farm manager Niall Kennedy. A statement released by the stud on Monday read, "Ben joins the team having completed the Irish National Stud's Thoroughbred Breeding Management course in 2021, after which he was selected to...

The Howden Neom Turf Cup, one of the highlights of the Saudi Cup meeting, has been upgraded to Group 1 status ahead of next year's running. Meanwhile, global insurance broker Howden has extended its partnership with the Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia (JCSA) for a further three years, taking the race sponsorship to 2028.   The addition of the Howden Neom Turf Cup to The Saudi Cup's line up of Group 1 races now takes the tally of top flight contests on the day to three, with a glittering undercard including...

The Tomokazu Takano-trained Jantar Mantar cemented his status as Japan's outstanding performer over 1,600 metres with victory in the G1 Mile Championship at Kyoto on Sunday, beating old rival Gaia Force (Kitasan Black) by a length and three-quarters in a near carbon copy of the result from June's G1 Yasuda Kinen at Tokyo. Becoming just the ninth horse to win both the Yasuda Kinen and Mile Championship in the same year, Jantar Mantar raced in third behind tearaway leader Toshin Macau (Big Arthur) through the first half of the race....

Following some pretty roasting foal trade at Goffs last week, action returns to Park Paddocks for the Tattersalls December Sale, which, after a Monday yearling session, features four days of weanlings. Four years ago at Tattersalls, Deborah O'Brien brought a neat and strong Tasleet yearling colt to the market through Bearstone Stud, where the breeder boards her mares, and sold him for 12,000gns. The result, after a further appearance at the Goffs UK Breeze-up Sale, was Bradsell, winner of the G1 Flying Five, G1 Nunthorpe, G1 King's Stand and G2...

Sunday, Kyoto, Japan, 15:40, MILE CHAMPIONSHIP-G1, ¥347,520,000, 3yo/up, 1600mT Field: 1-Toshin Macau (Jpn) (Big Arthur {Jpn}), 2-Champagne Color (Jpn) (Duramente {Jpn}), 3-Water Licht (Jpn) (Drefong), 4-Magic Sands (Jpn) (Kizuna {Jpn}), 5-Ascoli Piceno (Jpn) (Daiwa Major {Jpn}), 6-Gaia Force (Jpn) (Kitasan Black {Jpn}), 7-Cervinia (Jpn) (Harbinger {GB}), 80Kangchenjunga (Jpn) (Big Arthur {Jpn}), 9-Elton Barows (Jpn) (Deep Brillante {Jpn}), 10-Lavanda (Jpn) (Silver State {Jpn}), 11-Off Trail (GB) (Farhh {GB}), 12-Win Marvel (Jpn) (I'll Have Another), 13-Long Run (Jpn) (Victoire Pisa {Jpn}), 14-Lebensstil (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}), 15-Jantar Mantar (Jpn) (Palace Malice {Jpn}),...