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After his GI Kentucky Derby dreams were crushed in 2009 when likely favorite Quality Road was scratched with a quarter crack the week of the race, conditioner Jimmy Jerkens will saddle his first ever Derby runner May 3 in Wicked Strong(Hard Spun). “It’s a great feeling, no doubt about it,” Jerkens remarked. “Out of all...
NATIONAL SALE IN THE SPOTLIGHT By Kelsey Riley Bloodstock South Africa hosts its annual Emperor’s Palace National Yearling Sale Apr. 27 & 28 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the timing could hardly be better. The sale comes a month after South Africa’s dual Horse of the Year Variety Club (SAf) (Var) and the country’s juvenile...
by Liesl King There are three things that I have learnt today. One, yellow is definitely not my colour; two, wearing a plastic photographer’s jacket in the tropics is not recommended and three, Designs On Rome (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) andMilitary Attack (Ire) (Oratorio {Ire}) are seriously good horses! After a week of rain and drizzle,...
by Dan Liebman It was refreshing listening to Adam Silver Tuesday afternoon. The NBA had a problem, and it needed to deal with it swiftly and strongly. One of its owners, Donald Sterling, had been recorded making racist remarks. So when NBA Commissioner Silver addressed the world, he was as forceful in his remarks as...
Wayne Scherr grew up racing at the bush tracks of North Dakota, but had been out of racing for nearly two decades before consignor Scott Bergsrud convinced him to get back in the game two years ago. Through Bergsrud’s SAB Sales banner, Scherr will offer six juveniles at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale...
GOSDEN WEIGHS IN ON OAKS FAVORITE Trainer John Gosden will hope to earn his second European Classic of the season–the first coming in last weekend’s G1 Irish 2000 Guineas with Kingman (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire})–in the G1 Investec Oaks June 6, and he has as good a chance as any with the early favorite Taghrooda (GB) (Sea...
BEHIND THE SCENES AT ROYAL ASCOT– MOVING A MONARCH Every day of the Royal Ascot Festival, come rain or sunshine, Her Majesty The Queen arrives at the entrance of Ascot’s straight mile at precisely 2 p.m. Drawn by the famous Windsor Greys, Her Majesty’s Landau leads the procession of carriages up the mile, past the...
JUDDMONTE GRAND PRIX DE PARIS-G1, €600,000, LON, 7-13, 3yo, c/f, 12fT, 2:41.76, vsf. 1–s@#GALLANTE (IRE), 128, c, 3, by Montjeu (Ire) 1st Dam: Crazy Volume (Ire), by Machiavellian 2nd Dam: Desert Ease (Ire), by Green Desert 3rd Dam: Easy to Copy, by Affirmed O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Lynch Bages Ltd & Camas Park...
Horses based in Hong Kong that experience exercise induced pulmonary hemorrhaging (EIPH) raced just as long as their non-bleeding contemporaries without the addition of furosemide, commonly known as Lasix, according to a study published Friday by researchers from the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center. These findings resulted from one of the first reports using...
ARQANA AUGUST BEGINS TODAY Lashing overnight rains at last gave way to sunny skies in Deauville in the early hours yesterday, and the large contingent of international visitors were welcomed by bright skies as they came out in droves to inspect the class of the 2014 Arqana August Yearling Sale. Arqana kicks off its flagship...
By Mike Kane Tom Durkin didn’t go quietly. He left the crowd at rainy Saratoga Race Course roaring Sunday at the conclusion of the retirement ceremony in the winner’s circle to mark the end of his distinguished 43-year career calling Thoroughbred racing. After pausing briefly to control his emotions while thanking fans for their support,...
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD Few would have expected that at this point in the season the sensational Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) would be winless and under scrutiny, but today’s G1 Qatar Prix Vermeille at Longchamp is very much a retrieval mission for the pride of Al Shaqab Racing. So impressive when brushing aside Wild Coco (Ger)...