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Against The Odds - Racing With Gordon Lord Byron, a film produced by young Tipperary filmmaker Nicholas Ryan-Purcell, will air at the Tipperary Excel Arts Centre Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. The film is about Tipperary native Tom Hogan and Gordon Lord Byron (Ire) (Byron {GB}), the horse he bought for €2,000 who went on to earn just shy of €2-million in prizemoney while racing worldwide. For more information visit tipperary-excel.com.

Coolmore has released the 2017 stud fees of its 23-stallion roster in Ireland. New for 2017 are G1 Prix du Jockey Club and G1 Sussex S. winner The Gurkha (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who will stand for €25,000, and Australian shuttler Pride of Dubai (Aus) (Street Cry {Ire}). He was a dual Group 1-winning juvenile Down Under and will stand for €15,000. Galileo (Ire) and Fastnet Rock (Aus) remain at private fees. Dual Classic and four-time Group 1 winner Gleneagles (Ire), who will be standing his second season, has the most...

The numbers of foals registered in both Great Britain and Ireland up to the end of September are up on this time last year, according to the Weatherbys Return of Mares. The number of foals registered in Ireland thus far stands at 8,792, up by 587 (7.15%) from the same time last year. A total of 4,597, up by 131 (2.9%) have been registered in Great Britain. Foals have continued to be registered since Sept. 30 and complete numbers will be available in the Weatherbys Return of Mares Supplement, published...

3rd-NOT, £4,500, Mdn, 11-2, 2yo, 8f 75yT, 1:47.64, gd. +BIG CHALLENGE (IRE), c, 2, by Sea the Stars (Ire) 1st Dam: Something Mon, by Maria's Mon 2nd Dam: Try Something New, by Hail the Pirates 3rd Dam: All Things New, by One For All     Big Challenge was well away to track the leaders in a handy fourth from the outset of this unveiling. Making smooth headway in the long straight, the 4-1 chance led soon after challenging on the bridle at the quarter-mile marker and easily asserted under minimal...

Eleven-year-old gelding Kingsgate Native (Ire) (Mujadil–Native Force {Ire}, by Indian Ridge {GB}), a dual Group 1-winning sprinter, has been retired from racing. He will take up a new role at the British Racing School as a mount for jockeys in training, and will also be at Newmarket's Palace House Stables at certain times of the year to greet the public. Kingsgate Native won the G1 Nunthorpe S. as a 2-year-old against elders in 2007 and the following year's G1 Golden Jubilee S. at Royal Ascot, and he retired to Cheveley...

So that's why they call it the Breeders' Cup. There was Annemarie O'Brien, proudly filming as Intricately (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) strode out of the quarantine barn on Tuesday morning--breeder not only of the filly, but also of the two boys mounted up: jockey Donnacha and, on the pony alongside, trainer Joseph. The latter, in his first season with his own stable, will be bidding to exchange one record for another when he saddles Intricately for the GI Juvenile Fillies Turf. As things stand, he holds the record as the...

12.50 Nottingham, Mdn, £4,500, 2yo, 8f 75yT TUFF ROCK (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) debuts for Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Thani and Ed Walker and is a $350,000 KEESEP son of Wonder of Wonders (Kingmambo) who was placed in the G1 English, Irish and Yorkshire Oaks and descends from the great Urban Sea (Miswaki). Among his rivals is the similarly-unraced Master Singer (Giant's Causeway), Teneri Farms's half-brother to the G1SW Campanologist who races for John Gosden. 5.25 Kempton, Mdn, £4,500, 2yo, f, 8f (AWT) CERCLE D'OR (IRE) (Acclamation {GB}) is a...

Goffs's two-day Horses-In-Training and Open Yearling Sale begins on Wednesday with the horses-in-training session. The sale received a timely boost on Tuesday when Heartbreak City (Fr) (Lando {Ger}), who was offered at the sale last year but was led out unsold at €15,000, finished a narrow second in the A$6.2-million G1 Melbourne Cup off a campaign that has included a win in York's Ebor H. The sale, which begins at 2:30 p.m., features drafts from the likes of The Aga Khan Studs, Jim Bolger, Dermot Weld, Michael O'Callaghan, Joseph O'Brien,...

Goffs UK's two-day Autumn Sale of yearlings and horses-in-training wrapped up on Tuesday with the horses-in-training session, which posted figures well up on last year. A total of 313 horses went through the ring, with 237 sold for £2,151,100 at a buyback rate of 24.3%, down 13 points from last year, when 190 were sold for £1,364,200 at a buyback rate of 37.5%. This year's average of £9,076 was up 26%, while the median was up 25% at £5,000. Godolphin's 32-horse draft provided the highest-priced lot of the day. Wolfcatcher...

GUIGNOL WIRES THE GROSSER PREIS VON BAYERN     Third in August's G1 Grosser Preis von Berlin and sixth in Milan's G1 Gran Premio del Jockey Club last month, Guignol (Ger) (Cape Cross {Ire}) lit up the boards with a shock win in Tuesday's G1 Grosser Preis von Bayern at Munich. Sent straight to the front and afforded a clear advantage throughout, the 65-2 outsider had all his rivals in trouble turning for home and tightened the screw further under urging inside the final quarter mile to claim a career high...

    Dame du Roi, who debuted with a course-and-distance maiden win July 17, was a close-up fifth to Cavale Doree (Fr) (Sunday Break {Jpn}) in Deauville's Aug. 20 G3 Prix du Calvados before gaining a first stakes score in the Sept. 12 Listed Prix Saraca at this track once more and lined up here off a second in Saint-Cloud's Oct. 5 G3 Prix Thomas Bryon. Steadied off the pace in rear from the outset of this straight seven-furlong test, she was angled into clear runway for her bid at the...

Champion flat jockey Jim Crowley and 2009 champion apprentice Frederik Tylicki remained hospitalised on Monday night after being injured in a four-horse incident at Kempton that ultimately saw the meeting abandoned. The accident occurred as the field rounded the home turn in the Breeders Backing Racing EBF Maiden Fillies' S., the third race on the card. Nellie Deen (Ire) (Dream Ahead) was tracking the pacesetting Madame Butterfly (Ire) (Rip Van Winkle {Ire}) in the hands of Tylicki when the pair suffered a heavy fall. Crowley and Electrify (Ire) (Invincible Spirit...