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DOUBLE TROUBLE Only the very elite can return to win a second G1 Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and there are several question marks surrounding last year’s heroine Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) as she bids for immortality today, but by rights the focus must first fall on the class act of 2013 when examining the main...
Del Mar’s Thoroughbred season came to a close Sept. 3 with GI TVG Pacific Classic hero Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}) earning the title of 2014 Horse of the Meeting. Undefeated in six career starts, including his latest in the 10-furlong Classic, the dark bay–who also collected the title of top 3-year-old colt–was the unanimous choice as...
While Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s accomplished speedster Vicar’s In Trouble (Into Mischief) looms large in today’s GII Super Derby, he’ll likely experience plenty of early pressure in the featured event of the Louisiana Downs meet. A winner of the GIII LeComte S. and GII Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds earlier this year, the Mike Maker pupil was...
Equine Sales Company posted record gross receipts during Wednesday’s Consignor Select Yearling Sale in Opelousas, Louisiana. The sale, which also featured a supplement of racing age horses from Coteau Grove Farms, realized $1,782,400–an all-time high for the sale company–for 142 head sold. Of that total, 135 yearlings sold for $1,475,400 with an average of $10,929,...
Willis Horton’s “TDN Rising Star” Take Charge Brandi (Giant’s Causeway) will look to bounce back from a disappointing effort last time and earn an automatic berth into the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies in today’s GII Pocahontas S. The $435,000 KEESEP yearling took her 4 1/2-furlong unveiling with uncommon ease June 22, and dueled through quick splits in...
Bourbon Lane Stable’s Hashtag Bourbon (Super Saver) will stretch out to 8 1/2 panels as tries to continue his sire’s red-hot streak in the “Win and You’re In” GIII Iroquois S. at Churchill Downs today. The Kellyn Gorder trainee broke slowly before rallying to be third in a six-panel special weight behind Mr. Z (Malibu Moon) here Aug. 10,...
The Hon. Paul Zakaib Jr. of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County issued a ruling Aug. 29 in favor of seven jockeys, reversing and remanding the decision of the West Virginia Racing Commission’s Order suspending and fining the jockeys. The case, which initially began in March of 2009 at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races,...
The New York State Gaming Commission will issue a standard 10-year suspension to anyone who violates the harness rule prohibiting the use of substances that abnormally oxygenate a horse’s blood, including supra-dietary administration of cobalt salts. Cobalt salts have a number of industrial and agricultural uses, but are not intended for administration to horses. The...
Kool Kompany (Ire) (Jeremy–Absolutely Cool {Ire}, by Indian Ridge)–hero of the G2 Prix Robert Papin and G2 Railway S. and runner-up in the G1 Phoenix S.–was sold privately after failing to meet his reserve at £730,000 at yesterday’s final session of the DBS September Sales. The 2-year-old, consigned by East Everleigh Stables (Property of Middleham Park...
Sandra Lovato Dies in Ohio automobile Accident: Horsewoman Sandra Sweet Lovato, wife of retired Eclipse Award-winning jockey Frankie Lovato Jr., died yesterday in Norwalk, Ohio from injuries sustained from a car accident. She was 54. Lovato is survived by her husband, whom she married Nov. 23, 1982, Frankie Lovato, Jr., and by her children, Megan...
Trainer Amy Tarrant, who operates her own Ocala-based breeding and racing operation as Hardacre Farm, enjoyed one of her biggest successes on the track to date with homebred Pomeroys Pistol (Pomeroy), and will look for the star of her broodmare band to provide another big score in the Keeneland September sales ring next week. The...
by Jessica Martini Greg Goodman’s Lexington-based Mt. Brilliant Farm will offer eight yearlings during Book 1 of next week’s Keeneland September Yearling Sale. The octet, split between the Gainesway and Lane’s End consignments, has a decidedly European flair. Two of the yearlings are out of mares Goodman purchased at the Tattersalls December sale, while the...