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FASTNET ROCKS KARAKA DAY ONE Australia’s former Champion Sire Fastnet Rock (Aus) was all the rage during the opening session of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Premier Yearling Sale at the Karaka sales complex near Auckland yesterday. The Coolmore sire was responsible for the three top-priced lots, headed by a colt out of dual Classic winner Katie...
9th-GPX, $41,500, Alw, Opt. Clm. ($75,000), NW1X, 3yo, f, 1 1/16m (off turf), 1:44 1/5, sy. DAME DOROTHY (f, 3, Bernardini–Vole Vole Monamour, by Woodman) might just lead celebrity chef Bobby Flay to a throwdown of the Oaks variety after cruising to victory in this off-turf allowance in the Gulfstream slop. Alertly away, Dame Dorothy was four...
8th-OPX, $58,000, Alw, NW1X, 3yo, 1m, 1:40, ft. SHELTOWEE’S BOY (g, 3, Nobiz Like Shobiz–Miss Sheltowee, by Najran) drilled a field of Indiana Downs maidens by 6 1/2 lengths Sept. 30, but was no better than fourth in a first-level allowance over the Churchill turf Nov. 21. The dark bay rounded out the exacta underneath Bourbonize...
Wildcat Red (D’wildcat) and General a Rod (Roman Ruler), the one-two finishers from Saturday’s GII Besilu Fountain of Youth S., came out of the race in fine shape and could meet up again in the Mar. 29 GI Besilu Florida Derby. “He ate up and everything was fine,” Nick Galati, assistant to trainer Jose Garoffalo, said of...
RACING AND HUNTING MEET AT TATTS With more than £260 million having been traded on bloodstock at Tattersalls in 2013, there’s no denying that the historic firm of auctioneers is a significant business in the small town of Newmarket, attracting as it does investors in horse racing from all over the world. Its global outlook...
Upset winner of the GII Swale S. in Hallandale Mar. 1, Spot (Pulpit) breezed a half-mile in :47.75 at Palm Meadows yesterday in preparation for a possible start in the GI Florida Derby at Gulfstream Mar. 29. “He actually went a little too fast for me,” trainer Nick Zito said. “But he did it on his own,...
By Bill Oppenheim Gainesway Farm’s Tapit, who retired for a $15,000 fee in 2005, was the Leading North American freshman sire of 2008, when Stardom Bound won three Grade I races, including the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, and Laragh added the GI Hollywood Starlet. He stood for $35,000 in 2009 (foals of 2010), in which year...
We spent minutes stopping traffic on a busy country road because of a loose dog. She was small, dirty, covered with sores, and her teats swaying from a recent litter. She finally shot down a side road and we spent time trying to catch her in someone’s yard. Police arrived. They chased her which led...
by Lucas Marquardt Hey there, we’re back with another round of blogging/video blogging/etc., this time from Dubai. If you didn’t catch the first series from Hong Kong in December, the idea is to give folks who have never been an idea of the city’s culture, architecture, eateries and whatnot, in addition to covering this week’s...
FRANK GABRIEL After serving as Chief Executive Officer of the Dubai Racing Club in the United Arab Emirates for nine years, Frank Gabriel has decided to return home to the U.S., where in mid-April he will begin a new job as New York Racing Association racing secretary for Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course. His...
“A TALE OF TWO CHESTNUTS “Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate,” wrote American poet Emily Dickinson, and Friday’s trackwork session was a timely reminder of just how fleeting fame can be. For on the track were two bright chestnuts, both with blazes, their coats a burnished copper in the early morning sun....
Saturday, Newbury, Britain AON GREENHAM S. S.-G3, £60,000, NBY, 4-12, 3yo, c/g, 7fT, 1:26.95, gd. 1–KINGMAN (GB), 126, c, 3, by Invincible Spirit (Ire) 1st Dam: Zenda (GB) (G1SW-Fr, GISP-US, G1SP- Eng, $406,560), by Zamindar 2nd Dam: Hope (Ire), by Dancing Brave 3rd Dam: Bahamian (Ire), by Mill Reef O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms; T-John Gosden; J-James...