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John Oxley’s Coastline (Speightstown) worked five panels in company Friday for the GI Toyota Blue Grass S. Clocked in 1:00.40 for the distance, the Mark Casse trainee set fractions of :12.40, :23.80 and :35.20 with pilot Stewart Elliott–who will be aboard Mar. 22–in the irons. “It was a nice, easy work without much gallop out, which is...
Bayern & Midnight Hawk Ready for San Felipe… Kaleem Shah’s Bayern (Offlee Wild), a J “TDN Rising Star” J off a one-mile allowance victory at Sanita Anita Feb. 13, worked five panels in :59.80 Monday in preparation for the GII San Felipe S. Conditioner Bob Baffert is hopeful that the dark bay continues to improve. “He’s a fast horse...
By Amanda Duckworth The annual Organization of Racing Investigators Conference continued Tuesday in Lexington. The morning sessions featured presentations from The Jockey Club and National Thoroughbred Racing Association, while the afternoon revolved around information from the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, New Mexico Racing Commission, and Association of Racing Commissioners International. After lunch, Susan Speckert, who...
By Lucas Marquardt Over 75% of North American auction revenue is attributable to members of the Consignors and Breeders Association (CBA), and yesterday, the organization held its inaugural Education Symposium in Lexington, Kentucky as a service to those members. The day-long forum was staged at Keeneland’s sales pavilion, and included no fewer than 18 experts...
From the point of view of immediate practical application, the trouble with year-end sire statistics is that often the horses which you think look the best, and which the numbers confirm are the best, are all booked up by the time the statistics are published. We can’t promise some of the sires we’re reviewing today...
The second season of CNBC’s “Secret Lives of the Super Rich” will conclude on Wednesday Feb. 5 with a profile of last year’s Fasig-Tipton August yearling sale in Saratoga. This is the second time the show is focusing on Thoroughbred racing this season; last week, the show followed Justin Zayat and Bradley Weisbord as they...
by Alan Carasso Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider’s Lea (First Samurai) has made seven of his 11 career starts on the turf, a surface over which he has never finished worse than third and includes a victory in the GIII Commonwealth Turf S. at three in 2012. He even tried Horse of the Year Wise Dan...
XTENSION (IRE) (h, 7, Xaar {GB}–Great Joy {Ire}, by Grand Lodge), who won the 2009 G2 Vintage S. for trainer Clive Cox and later took back-to-back runnings of the G1 Champions Mile after his sale to Hong Kong, has been retired from racing. Bred by Paul McCartan, Xtension was a €15,000 TATIRE purchase in 2008, and...
It has been a year since the New York Times published its article and the PETA video which painted then-Hall of Fame nominee Steve Asmussen and his assistant, Scott Blasi, as allegedly abusive operatives in the seedy world of horse racing. While many of us were disturbed by the images and comments made in the PETA video,...
The New York Racing Association (NYRA)’s Board of Directors held its final meeting of 2014 in midtown Manhattan Wednesday morning, and marked the final time the meeting was led by Dr. David Skorton, who confirmed he will be leaving his role as chairman as he prepares to transition from president of Cornell University to becoming...
The blue-collar Gordon Lord Byron (Ire) (Byron {GB}) makes a fourth trip to Hong Kong and third in a row for the International Races, but for the first time, the 6-year-old will take his chances in the G1 Longines Hong Kong Sprint after posting outstanding fourth-place efforts behind Ambitious Dragon (NZ) (Pins {Aus}) in 2012 and to...
For all the far-flung Juddmonte Farms operation has accomplished worldwide, it has yet to visit the winner’s circle at the International Races, but that anomaly stands to be undone in this year’s G1 Longines Hong Kong Vase with two live chances in G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and GI Breeders’ Cup Turf runner-up Flintshire (GB) (Dansili...