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Robert Luttrell’s undefeated homebred Promise Me Silver (Silver City) breezed five furlongs in :59.40 at Churchill Downs Friday in preparation for her next start in the GI Acorn S. June 6.  “She looked very good,” Trainer Bret Calhoun’s assistant Dennis Geier said. “Everything was perfect, she galloped out good.” With Brian Hernandez Jr. in the irons, the...

One of the most versatile horses in Hong Kong, Blazing Speed (GB) (Dylan Thomas {Ire}) looks to build on another successful season in Sunday’s G1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup at Sha Tin Racecourse.  Upset winner of the Stewards’ Cup going 1600 meters in January 2014, the former James Fanshawe trainee capped that campaign with an...

So far, everything that Queen’s Jewel (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) has done has had the hallmark of stardom attached, and Sunday’s G1 Prix de Diane Longines at Chantilly is poised to provide the Wertheimer homebred with her rightful crowning moment. Always highly regarded by Freddy Head, the chestnut has managed to look abundantly green but ultimately vastly superior...

by Jessica Martini  The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June Sale of 2-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age kicks off in Ocala Tuesday morning, with the first of 1,166 horses catalogued for the four-day auction scheduled to head into the ring at 10:30 a.m. The June sale follows in the wake of record-setting renewals of the...

The appropriately named Pleascach (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}), which translates from Gaelic as “explosive”, will be a warm order to register a second triumph for breeder-trainer Jim Bolger in Thursday’s G2 Ribblesdale S. on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot, and is opposed by nine rivals in an intriguing renewal of the 12-furlong contest coming back from victory in...

With Prince Khaled always being keen to give strong support to his own stallions, Darley’s Dubawi initially went unsupported by Juddmonte. But the emergence of Dubawi’s first two crops rapidly established that Dubawi was far too good to ignore, and the Prince began to support him. Fortunately, the results have been little short of spectacular....

Dermot Weld has reflected on a successful week at Royal Ascot that saw one of his stars Free Eagle (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}) gain an important Group 1 success in the Prince Of Wales’s S. The 4yo has had an interrupted career but Weld feels those problems are now behind the Moyglare Stud homebred colt and the...

The British Horseracing Authority has set out a series of strategic goals and an associated business plan– including an executive restructure–for the next 18 months as a result of a review conducted by Chief Executive Nick Rust.  One of the key changes will be the creation of the role of Director of Racing Operations, which...

Brereton Jones and Timothy Thornton’s Include Betty (Include) figures to come with her usual late burst of speed in Saturday’s GI Mother Goose S. at Belmont, but as is usually the case with her, it’ll be a question of whether or not she has left herself with too much to do. The Tom Proctor trainee closed from...

Parx Racing and the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (PTHA) announced Friday the creation of the $20 Million Parx Racing Fall Festival from Aug. 29-Oct. 20. The purse level at the Bensalem oval will be doubled for the meet duration of 32 live race days, with the aim of increasing field size, enhancing betting interest and...

Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) returned to the work tab Monday at Santa Anita, going three furlongs in :36.40. It was the third fastest of 13 at the distance.  “American Pharoah worked great this morning,” reported Zayat Stable’s racing manager Justin Zayat. “It was an easy work back for him. [Trainer] Bob [Baffert] was...