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We’ve asked for this moment for years. And now it’s here, right in front of us. Something that is almost as rare as a comet, solar eclipse or hitting the Rainbow Pick Six. You know “asked” isn’t a strong enough word. We’ve actually begged, wrung our hands and cursed the stars for not aligning properly...
Anipa A First Mate For Tonalist… Patrick Lawley-Wakelin has been instrumental in the production of this year’s GI Belmont S. and GI Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Tonalist since before the son of Tapit was even born, having purchased his dam, Settling Mist (Pleasant Colony), for $800,000 at Keeneland November in 2007 (click here for a...
Ferguson Turns Up The Volume… Volume (GB) (Mount Nelso {GB}) (lot 1767) stamped herself a filly to watch when garnering the Listed Swettenham Stud Fillies’ Trial S. at Newbury in May, and she solidified her status amongst the best in her generation when running third in both the G1 Investec Oaks and G1 Irish Oaks. Volume...
Magic Return For Mukhadram’s Dam… Magic Tree (UAE) (Timber Country) (lot 1728) last passed through a sales ring in 2005 when offered by Darley at DBS and sold for just £2,800. With the Group 1 winner and new stallion Mukhadram (GB) (Shamardal) and Group 3-placed Woodland Aria (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}) to her credit since then, plus...
Pivotal Popularity Continues… Cheveley Park Stud resident Pivotal is currently Europe’s leading living broodmare sire, and thus it should have come as no surprise that a well-related daughter of Pivotal in foal to leading sire Invincible Spirit would be popular at Tattersalls yesterday. The mare that fit that description was Swingland (GB) (lot 1687), and...
Three-time Group 1 winner Noble Mission (GB) (Galileo {Ire}–Kind {Ire}, by Danehill), a full-brother to superstar Frankel (GB), will begin his stud career next season at Lane’s End Farm. Lane’s End has purchased a majority interest in the stallion and will stand him in association with Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms. A homebred for Juddmonte Farms, Noble...
Take a filly who won a Breeders’ Cup race over the weekend and another who won last year. Add two GI Kentucky Oaks winners. Toss in a score of further Grade I winners and producers, including a Broodmare of the Year candidate, and what do you get? You get the 2014 Fasig-Tipton November Sale, which...
The winner of Saturday’s GI Breeders’ Cup F/M Turf, Dayatthespa (City Zip), was settling in at Fasig-Tipton yesterday after an early morning flight from Southern California. “She got here at 1 p.m., came off the van and has been doing this since,” said Lane’s End’s Allaire Ryan, pointing to Dayatthespa grazing at few feet away. The 5-year-old,...
BAFFERT RUNNERS EXIT BC IN FINE FORM All six of Bob Baffert’s Breeders’ Cup runners are doing well following their efforts, including GI Breeders’ Cup Classic victor Bayern (Offlee Wild), the Hall of Famer reported yesterday. After veering sharply to the left at the start and bumping into favored Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}), Bayern seemed to...
“Well, if Bayern holds on to win, he will come down,” I said just a few seconds into the running of the Breeders’ Cup Classic Saturday at Santa Anita. The colt had veered sharply inward at the start and clearly interfered with horses. “Who is that?” I screamed only moments later. “There is another foul.” ...
TOAST TRAVELS SET TO CONTINUE Trainer Jamie Osborne was already busy planning the racing future of GI Breeders’ Cup Classic runner-up Toast of New York (Thewayyouare) yesterday the day after the British-based 3-year-old missed out on America’s richest prize by a nose. Osborne was upbeat yesterday, telling Racing Post, “He has the potential to be one of...
SOUNDING THE BATTLE CRY The Melbourne Cup is indeed ‘The Race That Stops a Nation,’ but that nation could be Japan if Admire Rakti (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn}) can defy his 129 pound impost and provide the country with its second G1 Melbourne Cup. The Japanese stormed onto the Melbourne Cup scene and put up the exacta...