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In recent weeks, Forever Young has won the world's richest race for the second time, Ka Ying Rising has set a new record in winning 18 consecutive races, Romantic Warrior landed his 13th Group 1 contest, and Rebel's Romance posted his 21st career victory. They have respectively earned the equivalent of approximately £23m, £13m, £26m and £12m. It would seem that there has never been a better time to own a top-class racehorse.  Calandagan, the world's top-rated racehorse in 2025, has just turned five and may be seen next in...

Friday, Meydan, UAE, post time: 20:35, RAS AL KHOR SPONSORED BY EMAAR-G3, AED850,000, 3yo/up, 1400mT Field: Elnajmm (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), Witness Stand (GB) (Expert Eye {GB}), Marbaan (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), Chicago Critic (GB) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}), Mysterious Night (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), New Century (GB) (Kameko), Andreas Vesalius (Ire) (Caravaggio), Audience (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}), Vafortino (Ire) (New Bay {GB}), Khanjar (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), Two Tribes (GB) (Rajasinghe {Ire}), English Oak (GB) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), Fort Payne (Fr) (Rio De La Plata), Hawksbill (GB) (Kameko), Dubai Treasure...

Group 1 winner Scorthy Champ has his first mares scanned in foal. The son of Mehmas stands at Barton Stud for £8,500 this year. The National Stakes hero was trained by Joseph O'Brien for an ownership group including Rectory Road Holdings, Barry Fowler and Annemarie O'Brien. Besides his win at the highest level, the chestnut full-brother to multiple group winner and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf second Malavath and G3 Horris Hill Stakes scorer Knight was third in the G2 Futurity Stakes. The trio are out of Fidaaha (New...

Goffs has announced the first wave of nominated bonus races available for qualified horses that were sold at last year's Orby Sale. Bonuses of €50,000 will be on offer for the Orby graduates whose connections have paid a €5,000 entry to the scheme.  Similarly to last year, there will be €1m in bonuses on offer, split down the middle between Britain and Ireland. The first qualifying race of the season in Ireland will be the opening two-year-old maiden over 5f at the Curragh on March 15. Meanwhile, the Brocklesby at...

The Shadai Race Horse Company, which owns Masquerade Ball (Duramente) and Jantar Mantar (Palace Malice), has confirmed that neither horse will travel from Japan to the Dubai World Cup meeting, citing the uncertainty surrounding the conflict in Iran and across the Middle East. According to a report on the Nikkan Sports website, the stakeholders of the racing club reached their decision "based on the ongoing uncertainty regarding the smooth transportation to Dubai and the difficulty of ensuring the safety of horses and riders due to the lack of a clear...

Breeders' Cup hero Gstaad (Starspangledbanner) is as short as 8-1 in the betting, as the entries for the G1 Betfred 2000 Guineas and G1 Betfred 1000 Guineas were released on Tuesday. There are 52 colts entered and 57 fillies at this entry stage. Sharing those odds with George Boughey's G2 Royal Lodge Stakes hero Bow Echo (Night Of Thunder), the G2 Coventry Stakes winner is one of nine in the race for Aidan O'Brien and the Coolmore partners. Also narrowly second in a trio of Group 1 races last year--the...

Racing Club has announced the launch of its new Owners App, developed in partnership with The Racing Manager. "Our goal has always been to make racehorse ownership as exciting, transparent and accessible as possible," said Richard Jaques, director and co-founder of Racing Club. "By partnering with The Racing Manager, we're delivering a modern digital experience that keeps our members closer to the action than ever before. Owners can now access everything they need from trainer updates to detailed performance analysis all within one seamless platform." Andy Ash, founder of The...

Goffs has released the catalogue for the Doncaster Breeze-Up Sale, which has been a source of 11 Royal Ascot winners throughout the past decade.  This year's sale will take place on Tuesday 21 April and Wednesday 22 April and features a typically strong book with stallions like Mehmas, No Nay Never, Starman, Havana Grey, Lope De Vega, Night Of Thunder and Too Darn Hot all represented.  Some lots of note include: lot 21, a son of Mehmas and the Group 3 winner Shaden (Kodiac); a colt by Havana Grey out...

The Hong Kong International Sale has been delayed, according to the South China Morning Post. The sale, originally slated for Friday, March 6, has been rescheduled until either late June or early July. Quarantine issues for Southern Hemisphere horses were cited as the cause of the rescheduling. "There was just a problem with quarantine," the Hong Kong Jockey Club's executive director of racing Andrew Harding told the publication. "Everything's back on track - there was an uncertainty about holding to that date and whilst the Northern Hemisphere horses had arrived,...

Elite Status has his first mares scanned in foal. The son of Havana Grey, who won the G3 Prix de Cabourg and G3 Hackwood Stakes, stands for £8,000 at Whitsbury Manor Stud this year. Some of the mares in foal to the G2 Norfolk Stakes runner-up include Harry Sounds (Due Diligence), a sister to multiple stakes winner and Group 1-placed Diligent Harry; Queens Prestige (Expert Eye), a sister to multiple stakes winner Mubtasimah (Dark Angel); and I Promised Myself (Dabirsim), a half-sister to the group winner and Group 1-placed Isfahani...

Victorious Forever will break new ground at the Cheltenham Festival when the Declan Queally-trained Carrigmoornaspruce (Diamond Boy), no bigger than 14-1 for next Thursday's Grade 2 mares' novice hurdle, will carry the leading Bahraini-based owners' familiar red and white silks for the first time under National Hunt rules.  Shaikh Nasser bin Hamed Al Khalifa's Victorious Racing and his brother Shaikh Khalid's KHK Racing merged last August to form Victorious Forever. Together, the brothers have horses like 1,000 Guineas contender Zanthos (Sioux Nation) and 2,000 Guineas entry Saber Strike (Night Of...

Tuesday's Prix de la Serpentine at Chantilly featured some choice pedigrees among the debutantes and it was the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches and Prix de Diane entry The Last Dance (Iffraaj) who stole the show in scintillating fashion to become a TDN Rising Star, Presented by Hagyard. "We have the right to dream with a filly like her, we can think about the great races in the spring," co-owner and co-breeder Antoine Gilibert told Paris Turf. "Even her jockey was impressed with the style of her win and the more...