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by Jessica Martini Joanna and Clovis Crane’s Crane Thoroughbreds will offer its first consignment at Barretts when two juveniles go through the sales ring during Monday’s March Sale of Selected 2-Year-Olds in Training in Pomona, California. The operation, based in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, offers a myriad of services, from breaking and training to foaling and sales...
By Michael Illiano Last Saturday, leading North American owners and breeders Ken and Sarah Ramsey turned their focus abroad and captured the $214,000 Sandy Lane Barbados Gold Cup with their 8-year-old gelding Major Marvel (Bernstein), becoming the first American owners to win the island’s premier race. Locally considered a Grade1 event, the race does not generally...
by Jessica Martini Juan Naciff has only been involved in racing for 2 1/2 years, but has already hit the board in a Grade I race. Now the transplanted Argentinian, who calls Miami home, looks for pinhooking success with a full-brother to graded stakes winner and J “TDN Rising Star” J Midnight Hawk (Midnight Lute). The colt,...
4th-AQU, $65,000, Msw, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 1:43 4/5, ft. BAY OF PLENTY (c, 3, Medaglia d’Oro–Kotuku {GB}, by A.P. Indy), second first time out at Gulfstream Jan. 1, finished a close fourth behind GII Tampa Bay Derby winner Ring Weekend (Tapit) last time at this distance in Hallandale Feb. 8. Away well from his far outside...
8th-PRX, $59,400, Alw, NW1X, 3yo, 6 1/2f, 1:16 2/5, ft. FAVORITE TALE, g, 3, Tale of the Cat 1st Dam: Tricky Elaine (GSP), by Grindstone 2nd Dam: Evil Elaine, by Medieval Man 3rd Dam: Distinctive Elaine, by Distinctive Favorite Tale ran like a 1-9 shot should, taking his record to three-for-three and stamping himself as a potential...
RAIN, SNOW IN DUBAI The average annual rainfall in the United Arab Emirates is 3.7”. So I believed Michael Dickinson yesterday when he told me that Dubai gets a good two-day soaking–like the one we’re currently getting–once a year. Not that the folks back in the States are feeling much sympathy, but it was an...
THE DUBAI WORLD COME COMES OF AGE According to the Oxford dictionary, the definition of ‘the world’ is ‘the earth, together with all its countries and peoples’. The first Dubai World Cup took place in 1996, and Cigar’s name was etched in history as the first winner of the coveted gold trophy. Since then, horses...
by Michael Illiano Trainer Ben Colebrook was pleasantly surprised when he recorded his first win of and a runner-up finish in 2014 Keeneland meet Saturday. After a harsh winter that cost his charges crucial works, his runners proved ready to contend in Saturday’s tests. The 35-year-old Colebrook, whose father was a trainer, began working as...
NOVAE BLOODSTOCK INSURANCE CRAVEN S.-G3, £65,000, NKT, 4-17, 3yo, c/g, 8fT, 1:35.42, gd. 1–TOORMORE (IRE), 129, c, 3, by Arakan 1st Dam: Danetime Out (Ire), by Danetime (Ire) 2nd Dam: Matila (Ire), by Persian Bold (Ire) 3rd Dam: Peace Girl (GB), by Dominion (GB) (£36,000 yrl ‘12 DONAUG) O-Middleham Park Racing IX & James Pak;...
Tapit’s standout year on the racetrack extended to the sales ring Tuesday at OBS when Jim Martin, bidding on behalf of Mike Repole, saw off a determined Tom Ryan to secure a colt by the Gainesway stallion for a sale-topping $725,000. “I sat here for two days waiting for that one,” Martin laughed after signing...
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s April Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training concluded its record-setting four-day stand Thursday. It was the second straight year the auction set new marks for gross, average and median, with 767 horses selling for $57,032,000, compared to 815 juveniles grossing $48,757,000 in 2013. The average of $74,357 was up 24.3% from...
SON OF SILVANO STEALS THE SHOW By Kelsey Riley Bloodstock South Africa yesterday hosted the opening session of its annual Emperor’s Palace National Yearling Sale in Johannesburg, South Africa. While the day did not produce too many displays of fireworks, at the end of the day figures showed across-the-board increases. The gross rose 7.8% to...