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By Bill Finley When it comes to assessing the abilities of the sport’s trainers, it sometimes seems that only one number matters–their winning percentage. Above 20% and you’re good. Below 10% and you’re not good. Somewhere in between and you’re mediocre. Horsemen seem to have become so obsessed with their winning percentages that some trainers...
Quick Return For Cross Pattee… The Oppenheimer-bred Oasis Dream (GB) mare Cross Pattee (Ire) went through the Tattersalls ring last year for 36,000gns but, reoffered on Wednesday (lot 2004) as one of relatively few mares to have conceived to the subfertile triple Group 1 winner Al Kazeem (GB), her price tag rose to 115,000gns. She...
Back To The Well For Badger… One man who knows the Juddmonte families better than most is Grant Pritchard-Gordon of Badgers Bloodstock, having spent 17 years as racing manager of Khalid Abdullah’s operation. Pritchard-Gordon noted he has been buying fillies from Juddmonte’s consignments, “every year since I left,” and the one he took home last...
Time Being Goes To War… The traditional Wednesday evening presentation of well-bred fillies from Juddmonte again proved the highlight at Tattersalls, and Sheikh Fahad was outbid once more on the second-top price of the day, Time Being (GB) (Zamindar) (lot 2158), who is another Juddmonte jewel to have been claimed for an American farm. Bidding...
Posset The Pick For Glenwood Farm… The rare chance to buy a young full-sibling to a multiple Group 1 winner from one of the very best farms in the world resulted in a third-day top price of 625,000gns for Posset (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), the unraced sister to Juddmonte star Midday (GB). Kentucky-based Canadian breeders...
By Christina Bossinakis Only days removed from the conclusion of a successful inaugural Gulfstream Park West meeting, Gulfstream Park is poised to kick off its 2014/15 Championship meeting this Saturday. With little time to cool their heels following its first swing at running a fall meet at the oval formerly operating as Calder Race Course,...
By Lucas Marquardt There are lots of anecdotes that speak to Japan’s way of doing things. Here’s a short one. Two hours after the conclusion of one of the country’s biggest races, Sunday’s G1 Japan Cup, the public areas at Tokyo Racecourse were almost spotless. That was after hosting just over 100,000 people. Forget about...
CAPUCINES ALIGNS ARQANA STARS By Alix Choppin Eric Puerari and Michel Zerolo’s Haras des Capucines has ranked amongst the top three vendors at Arqana’s Breeding Stock sale for the past three years, and has also been responsible for the sale-topper on two occasions since 2006, the year Arqana was born. In fact, every time a...
Just prior to the start of yesterday’s session at Fasig-Tipton, Terence Collier announced to the crowd that Gainesway’s Tapit (Pulpit) would stand the 2015 breeding season at a fee of $300,000. T he sire of GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff and GI Kentucky Oaks victress Untapable, GI Belmont S. hero Tonalist and MGSW & GI Breeders’ Cup Dirt...
During his sports talk show broadcast across the CBS Radio Network Monday, host Jim Rome, co-owner of Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}), spoke for the first time publicly about the trouble which befell the previously undefeated gelding in Saturday’s GI Breeders’ Cup Classic. Rome articulated his feelings in a calm fashion, though he told his listeners, “I’m...
Triple Group 1 hero Al Kazeem (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) will not be heading abroad this winter, with connections planning to prime him for a couple of Group 1 options in the spring. Trainer Roger Charlton and owner John Deer had been mulling possible opportunities in Hong Kong and Dubai after the 6-year-old bounced back to...
Today’s G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte offers the faster of Europe’s 2-year-olds one of the final opportunities to gain serious black-type, with Jonathan Pease looking to build on a stellar weekend with Souvenir Delondres (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}). Christopher Wright’s filly comes into this on the back of a success in Chantilly’s G3 Prix Eclipse over this trip Oct....