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Three-year-old colt Dance Of Life (Fr) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) is set to continue his racing career in Australia after being snapped up by Horse France's Robert Nataf, with Australian agent Paul Moroney, for €400,000 on Friday to top the second and final session of Arqana's Summer Sale in Deauville. The sale's healthy second session contributed to statistical gains both on the day and cumulatively. On Friday, 131 lots changed hands for €4,648,000, compared to 114 sold for €3,176,500 on this day a year ago. The buyback rate was down six points...

Saturday's G2 Lancashire Oaks suffered a loss on Friday when Sir Michael Stoute ruled out Ballymacoll Stud's exciting Abingdon (Street Cry {Ire}), leaving just one 3-year-old filly to take on the older bridage headed by Godolphin's long-absent Endless Time (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}). Last seen winning the Listed Bluebell S. over this trip at Naas in October, the 4-year-old, who had earlier beaten Simple Verse (Ire) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}) in a Goodwood handicap as she scaled the heights, has been patiently coaxed back to the track by Charlie...

Labeled the "clash of the generations", Sandown's G1 Coral-Eclipse heavily favours a high-class 3-year-old with the weight-for-age shifting a huge 11 pounds in their favour, and that may prove too much for opponents of The Gurkha (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in Saturday's renewal. Unraced at the start of the season but now hardened via the tests of the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains and G1 St James's Palace S., Derrick Smith's bay promises to stay this 10-furlong trip based on pedigree and racecourse evidence. His powerful display when romping to glory...

It is often observed that the current sky-high quality of Japanese racing owes a huge debt to the efforts made by the Yoshida family to upgrade the country's stallion ranks with imports through the final decades of the 20th century. The high-point of this influx was the arrival in Japan in advance of the 1991 breeding season of America's 1989 Horse of the Year Sunday Silence (Halo). However, that is only half the story: the current quality of the Japanese Thoroughbred is the result not only of the upgrading of...

Arena Racing Company and seven independent tracks have partnered to produce The Racing Partnership, a new television channel that will later this year provide content for high street betting shops, according to Racing Post. The Racing Partnership will cover 650 fixtures from the UK as well as all South African racing. The channel will debut with South African racing Sept. 1, with six ARC courses to be added Jan. 1 and the remaining tracks added throughout next year. The seven independent tracks in the partnership are Fakenham, Ffos Las, Hexham,...

Sheikh Hamdan's Intilaaq (Dynaformer), who beat just one home when last seen in the G3 Brigadier Gerard S. May 26, could be seen next in mid to late July, according to trainer Roger Varian. The Newmarket conditioner noted the 4-year-old, who scoped dirty after his Brigadier Gerard effort, would bypass next week's G2 Princess of Wales's S. at Newmarket in favour of the Listed Steventon S.–which he won last year–at Newbury July 16, or the G2 Skybet York S. a week later. "He is doing well but he will not run...

Trainer Dermot Weld told Racing Post he may appeal the €1,000 fine he received after a filly under his care, Va Pensiero (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}), tested positive for a local anaesthetic–a metabolite of Lidocaine--after winning a rated race at Dundalk May 13. Weld said at a hearing Wednesday that he had never given, or ordered to be given, the 3-year-old Moyglare Stud homebred any medication. "I'm completely baffled by the whole business and I'm seriously considering appealing the fine. That's all I have to say on the matter," Weld...

1st-TIP, €14,000, Mdn, 6-30, 2yo, f, 7 1/2fT, 1:40.16, yl. +PROMISE TO BE TRUE (IRE) (f, 2, Galileo {Ire}--Sumora {Ire} {SW-Eng}, by Danehill), a full-sister to the 2011 G1 Moyglare Stud S. heroine and G1 1000 Guineas third Maybe (Ire), Hwt. 2yo Filly-Ire, G1SW-Ire, SW & G1SP-Eng, $469,223, was sent off the 2-1 favourite and was anchored at the back early by Seamie Heffernan. Delivered out wide as Elizabeth Browning (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) made what appeared to be a race-winning move, the bay really found something late on and powered...

Arqana's mixed Summer Sale enjoyed a bumper year back in 2014, when the subsequent GI Woodbine Mile winner Mondialiste (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) was offered by the Wertheimer brothers and sold privately for €190,000. The clearance rate, and consequently turnover, fell markedly last July but the first of two days of trade at this year's event provided an increased average of €26,198 (+12%), while the median also rose to €16,000, from €15,000. An 11% rise in clearance to 69% led to an 8% boost in the aggregate, which stood at €2,530,000...

Khalid Abdullah homebred Fair Eva (GB) (Frankel {GB}), who became Juddmonte's first runner and winner by its peerless homebred Frankel when taking a Haydock maiden by four lengths June 8, has a few potential black-type options ahead of her, revealed Racing Manager Teddy Grimthorpe when issuing an update on a handful of the stable's runners on Thursday. The chestnut daughter of Group 1-winning sprinter African Rose (GB) (Observatory) had been considered for novice races at Newbury and Haydock this week, but Grimthorpe said she could instead go up in class...

Flaxman Stables homebred Ulysses (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), 12th in the G1 Investec Derby after breaking his maiden impressively in May, could bid for redemption in the G2 Great Voltigeur S. at York Aug. 17. "The horse is doing well," said Flaxman Racing Manager Alan Cooper. "We've given him an entry in the Great Voltigeur and will give him plenty of time to get over the Derby. [Trainer] Sir Michael [Stoute] will decide nearer the time if that is the right race for him." Cooper was offering up no excuses for...

Four wildcards have been added to the Tattersalls July Sale July 6 to 8. Dual Group 3-winning mare Lady Gloria (GB) (Diktat {GB}) will go through the ring as lot 89A along with her Australia (GB) colt foal. The 12-year-old mare is offered by The Castlebridge Consignment in foal to Bated Breath (GB). Trainer Charlie Hills's Faringdon Place Stables will offer the twice-placed filly Sonnet (Ire) (Kyllachy {GB}) Lot 375A, whose full-brother Dragon Pulse (Ire) has gotten off to a fast start at stud this year. The page traces back...