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Coverage by Jessica Martini and Justina Severni Fasig-Tipton’s Florida 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale returned to South Florida with its inaugural run at Gulfstream Park Wednesday and sales officials were quick to call the boutique auction’s flashy new home a success. “We couldn’t be any more pleased with the results of the inaugural sale at Gulfstream...
Horse of the Year California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) squares off against fellow superstar Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}) in a most-intriguing renewal of Santa Anita’s GII San Antonio Invitational S., which will be part of The Jockey Club Tour broadcast on Fox Sports 1 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. EST. This will be the first start for Perry Martin...
Sheikh Joaan Al Thani’s powerful Al Shaqab Racing looks to get its first North American win at the highest level this afternoon with 5-year-old Mshawish (Medaglia d’Oro) in the GI Gulfstream Park Turf H. A winner of last February’s G2 Zabeel Mile at Meydan for Mikel Delzangles, the dark bay had an awful trip when sixth in...
Adele Dilschneider and Claiborne Farm’s Lea (First Samurai) faces nine formidable rivals as he bids to go back-to-back in Gulfstream’s GI Donn H., which will be part of a Fox Sports 1 broadcast of The Jockey Club Tour along with the GI Gulfstream Park Turf H., GII San Antonio Invitational S. and GII San Marcos S. from...
Kaleem Shah’s Can the Man (Into Mischief–Smolensk, by Danzig), front-running winner of the 2014 GIII Affirmed S. and third in the GI Del Mar Futurity the previous season, has been retired from racing and will enter stud for the 2015 breeding season at B. Wayne Hughes’s Spendthrift Farm in Lexington. Also bred by Hughes’s Malibu Farm LLC,...
In what has become something of an annual rite of passage, officials at Oaklawn Park have announced an increase in overnight purses of $1,000 to $3,000 per race owing to strong business in the month of January. “To be able to increase purses this early in the season is a testament to the quality racing...
Fox Hill Farms’ Normandy Invasion (Tapit) rejoined the Fair Grounds string of trainer Larry Jones Jan. 29 after recovering from surgery on a fractured right sesamoid last October and has his connections thinking big. “If Normandy Invasion can hold up and [Dr. Larry] Bramlage [who performed the surgery and oversaw the rehabilitation of the 5-year-old horse] thinks...
by T. D. Thornton Additional reporting by Mike Kane Terry Finley has filed a supplemental protest in the NYTHA election dispute charging that NYTHA’s staff could have obtained a list of 2013 and 2014 licensees and their addresses from the New York State Gaming Commission if they had simply filed the proper request. Finley said he...
By Emma Berry Freezing conditions in Newmarket were not emulated in the ring at Tattersalls, which saw a lively renewal of its February Sale post record figures for turnover and median and a strong clearance rate of 88%. The median rose by 3.7% to 7,000gns, while the aggregate of 2,586,100gns for 240 horses sold represented...
Britain’s enhanced zero-tolerance anabolic steroid policy is set to be implemented from Mar. 2, the British Horseracing Authority revealed yesterday. The policy was initially to go into effect Jan. 1, but the process was delayed in order to give the BHA further time to consult with industry stakeholders. The BHA noted clarification and consensus had...
Stay Gold (Jpn) (Sunday Silence–Golden Sash {Jpn}, by Dictus {Fr}), a Group 1 winner and sire of Japanese Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year Orfevre (Jpn), has died at age 21, according to Racing Post. Stay Gold placed at Group 1 level six times through his five-year career before capping his record with his...
Queensland stewards have deemed, based on veterinary advice, that Regu-Mate is not an anabolic steroid, bringing to a close a saga that put a yearling purchased at last month’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale under the threat of a racing ban after testing positive for the medication. As part of random testing conducted prior...