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Khalid Abdullah’s Group 3 Autumn S. winner Commemorative (GB) (Zamindar) skips Doncaster this weekend in favor of the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita. The Charlie Hills-trained Zamindar colt was an impressive winner of the Newmarket feature and despite a winning margin of a length, his superiority suggested he could be even better than that....
A record 201 horses, including five returning 2013 winners, have been pre-entered for this year’s Breeders’ Cup championship weekend. The championships, featuring 13 Grade I events worth $26 million, will be held at Santa Anita for the third straight year Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. The weekend’s crowning event, the $5-million GI Breeders’ Cup Classic,...
Tiz Wonderful (Tiznow–Evil, by Hennessy), currently the second-leading third-crop sire in the United States, has arrived safely in Korea, according to bloodstock agent Rollin Baugh, who helped broker the sale of the stallion from B. Wayne Hughes and Stonestreet Stables to the Korean Racing Authority. “The KRA is really getting up to speed with the international...
by Jessica Martini The talented Winter Memories (El Prado {Ire}) won a legion of fans, as well as two Grade I events, with her electric burst of acceleration on the racetrack. Racing in the colors of Darby Dan’s Phillips Racing Partnership and the product of a long line of Darby Dan runners, the flashy gray mare will...
A War Front weanling filly out of 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta (Street Cry {Ire}) was euthanized Oct. 28 at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital after suffering a paddock accident at Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Ky. “We are deeply saddened to report the passing of Zenyatta’s filly, affectionately nicknamed Z Princess,” said a...
New knee and all, jockey Gary Stevens has the call for trainer Chad Brown aboard TDN Rising Star Bakken (Distorted Humor) in the GI Sprint, and he admitted yesterday that he’ll be cheering on fellow Rising Star Bayern (Offlee Wild) when the gates fly shortly after 5:30 Pacific time. “I’m rootin’ for him,” Stevens said Thursday morning at Clockers’...
Classic winner Palace Malice (Curlin) is ready to resume training after an extensive veterinary examination declared him to be sound and fully recovered from the bone bruise he suffered last summer, co-owners Dogwood Stable and Three Chimneys Farm announced Friday. “The X-rays and ultrasounds taken in Kentucky on Thursday morning are as good as we hoped they...
Jungle Racing LLC, KMN Racing LLC, Hollendorfer, Litt, Solis II and Todaro’s champion Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}) registered his first workout since a troubled fourth-place finish as the favorite in the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic Tuesday morning, working three furlongs in :36.80 at Golden Gate Fields. “He came out of the race a little banged up,...
Three different stallion sons of the outstanding broodmare Urban Sea had weanlings in the top 10 Thursday. Along with Galileo, Sea The Stars (Ire) was represented by lot 845, the first foal of Italian listed winner Aquila d’Oriente (Ity) (Dubawi {Ire}). Consigned by the Irish National Stud, the filly was knocked down to Dick O’Gorman...
A consistent performer from ages three right through to this, his 7-year-old campaign, Lubash validated favoritsm to record a second win at the Grade III level and crossed the $1-million mark in career earnings in the process. The homebred, who graduated for a $35,000 tag against his fellow New York-breds on the dirt in his...
I was more than a little intrigued by the op-ed piece published this week in TDN penned by John Fulton. (Respect for Owners, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014.) The bloodstock agent brokered the private sale of a major horse and then watched as members of the media speculated on the name of the buyer and the...
Peachtree Stable’s Lord Nelson (Pulpit), dominant winner of the Speakeasy S. at Santa Anita in his most recent start, will ship east for trainer Bob Baffert for Saturday’s GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. at Churchill Downs. The chestnut colt was fourth behind MGISW American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile)–with subsequent GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Texas...