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After the dust had settled following a blitzkrieg of selling at the 2014 renewal of the Fasig-Tipton November sale Monday in Lexington, a total of 108 horses had sold for a gross of $63,678,000, with 23 lots exceeding the $1-million mark. “Overall, it was a very solid and strong November Sale tonight,” Fasig-Tipton President Boyd...
TRIPPI COLT TOPS CAPE READY TO RUN SALE By Liesl King Session One of the Cape Thoroughbred Sales’ Ready To Run Sale, held at the Durbanville Racecourse yesterday as part of a Festival of Racing that included the Cape Seasons openers, the G3 Diana S. and G3 Matchem S., ended on a high with an aggregate...
CHINA HORSE CLUB DOMINANT AT ARC SALE By Michele MacDonald Members of the China Horse Club made a powerful statement about their intent to compete at the highest levels of international racing when they scooped up four horses, including the three top lots, at the Arqana Arc sale on October 4, in the process gaining...
Overlooked by the bettors, Canadian champion Leigh Court stole the show from heavily favored GII Prioress S. victress Stonetastic (Mizzen Mast) in Keeneland’s GII Thoroughbred Club of America S. She also secured a spot in the gate at Santa Anita for the GI Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint Nov. 1. Only off the board...
“TDN Rising Star” Close Hatches (First Defence) will be an overwhelming favorite to get the money in a race sponsored by her owner in today’s GI “Win and You’re In” Juddmonte Spinster S. at Keeneland. A two-time Grade I winner at three, the GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff runner-up has come back even stronger for her 4-year-old season....
MIMOSA TO TAKE THE BATON France’s Gold Cup, the marathon G1 Qatar Prix du Cadran at Longchamp, is very much a race for the specialists, and so suffered a late blow yesterday when defending winner and favorite Altano (Ger) (Galileo {Ire}) was withdrawn. Aiming to step up and fill the gap is Dr Ronan Lambe and Merriebelle...
While some of the top sprinters kicked off this past Wednesday, today’s Celebration Cup H. marks the return of a good number of Hong Kong’s top middle-distance horses, both new and old. Designs On Rome (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) began what would become a Horse of the Year campaign by taking the final two legs...
GLORY SEEKING With three failures from four starts at Longchamp, the record of Olympic Glory (Ire) (Choisir {Aus}) around this circuit does not inspire confidence, but Al Shaqab Racing’s 4-year-old reverts to the seven-furlong trip over which he was successful two years ago in today’s G1 Qatar Prix de la Foret. Below-par on all three visits since...
OPPORTUNITY FOUND Today’s G1 Total Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp provides the chance for J “TDN Rising Star” J Found (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) to shine following her top-class effort when third in the G1 Moyglare Stud S. Her performance in the Sept. 14 seven-furlong Curragh feature, where the re-opposing Malabar (GB) (Raven’s Pass) was fourth, came after a visually impressive debut...
THE USUAL SUSPECTS Europe’s major sprints often play host to a set of constantly re-opposing characters and today’s G1 QNB Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp is no exception, with the grizzled brigade of veterans headed by chief five- furlong specialist Sole Power (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}). Following his latest fourth in the Sept. 6 G1 Haydock Sprint Cup,...
MORE WOW Rested since winning the G1 Prix Morny, Al Shaqab Racing’s The Wow Signal (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) returns to France to tackle an extra furlong today in Longchamp’s G1 Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere. Backing up his success in Royal Ascot’s G2 Coventry S. June 17 with a comfortable defeat of Hootenanny (Quality Road) in that six-furlong...
TAR-GET LONGCHAMP Shadwell’s year has been a stellar one thanks mainly to the exploits of their fillies, and one of the elite among them, Tarfasha (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}), will be bidding to extend the sequence in today’s G1 Prix de l’Opera Longines at Longchamp. Runner-up to the operation’s star performer Taghrooda (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) in...