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Saturday, Saratoga WHITNEY H.-GI, $1,500,000, SAR, 8-2, 3yo/up, 1 1/8m, 1:48, ft. 1–MORENO, 117, g, 4, by Ghostzapper 1st Dam: Danceinthesunlight, by A.P. Indy 2nd Dam: Dancethruthedawn, by Mr. Prospector 3rd Dam: Dance Smartly, by Danzig O/B-Southern Equine Stable LLC (KY); T-Eric J Guillot; J-Junior Alvarado. $800,000. Lifetime Record: 20-3-6-3, $1,709,940. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for...
LAW AGAINST THE MONARCHY By James Trotter Though a handful of Grade 1’s are still to come on the South African racing calendar after this weekend, the G1 Vodacom Durban July is the destination to which all paths lead, and is the climactic pinnacle of the country’s racing season. As the GI Kentucky Derby is...
THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS By Liesl King As the sky changed from a murky blue to a pale pink, the contenders for the G1 Vodacom Durban July stretched their legs at Clairwood Racecourse for the last time yesterday, in more ways than one. Clairwood has been sold, and next year the white paddocks, where impatient Thoroughbreds...
By Christie DeBernardis It was a packed house in Belmont’s Garden Terrace yesterday morning, where the connections of the GI Belmont S. contenders gathered with a large group of media to draw the post positions for the 146th running of the Triple Crown’s third jewel. First to join NYRA analyst Andy Serling at the microphone...
There has been plenty to soak in during the early training hours at Big Sandy immediately following sunrise all throughout GI Belmont S. week. A cloudy and cool Wednesday morning greeted impressive GII Peter Pan S. winner Tonalist (Tapit) as he turned in another good-looking gallop shortly after 6 a.m. A slew of media...
by Dan Liebman It was inevitable. With a–shudder the thought–Cal-bred going for the Triple Crown, it figured “they” would come out of the woodwork. “They” are the media, a group of which this writer is obviously a member. But in particular “they” are the members of the media that do not regularly cover Thoroughbred racing...
FASTNET FILLY TOPS YEARLING OPENER A daughter of Fastnet Rock (Aus) stole the show during the opening session of the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale yesterday when hammered down to the New Zealand-based David Ellis and Jamie Richards for A$300,000. With 20 fewer horses offered as compared to 12 months ago, figures dipped across the...
VARIETY CLUB CHAMPION OF THE MILE Just over two years ago, a chestnut colt won a Maiden Juvenile Plate worth HK$43000 over 1200 meters in front of about 500 people, on a glorious sunny day. It was his first start, and hence the victory by two lengths was quite unexpected–in fact so unexpected that neither...
BEAUTY QUEEN Living up to her grandiose title, Ballymore Thoroughbreds’ Miss France (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) conquered a sun-drenched Newmarket yesterday to provide Andre Fabre with a first renewal of the G1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas and complete an overdue clean sweep of the British Classics for the Gallic maestro. Having run flat when only sixth in the traditional...
NATIONAL PRIDE When a horse is named Miss France, she carries an extra burden of responsibility on behalf of her home nation. The Wildenstein family’s Dansili (GB) filly had already represented France with honor on her sole start away from home at Newmarket last season, and in becoming the first winner of the QIPCO 1000...
Randall Dee (R.D) Hubbard, a prominent owner and breeder of Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses, former CEO of Hollywood Park, current owner of Ruidoso Downs and chairman and managing director of BIGHORN Golf Club in California, was one of 12 American businessmen to be named a recipient of the prestigious Horatio Alger Award in ceremonies held...
6th-KEE, $57,632, Msw, 3yo, 6f (AWT), 1:10 4/5, ft. +WATERY MOON (c, 3, Malibu Moon–Sweet Nanette {MSW & GSP, $392,845}, by You and I), bet heavily to 5-2 in this unveiling with a steady string of works at Fair Hill, stalked the leaders early dropping back somewhat erratically. Gunned five-wide at the head of the lane,...