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TDN Rising Star Dortmund (Big Brown) can complete a fairy tale season for owner Kaleem Shah and is expected to be a prohibitive favorite in a short field of five juvenile males in Saturday’s GI Los Alamitos Futurity, being contested for the first time at the Orange County oval after 33 renewals at the now-shuttered Hollywood Park...
Travis Stone has been named Churchill Downs’s new track announcer, taking over for Larry Collmus starting at the beginning of the Louisville oval’s Spring Meet beginning Apr. 25. Stone, 30, called the races at Monmouth Park’s 2014 meet and worked as the back-up announcer for the New York Racing Association this winter. Collmus, who will...
Sue Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith’s TDN Rising Star Taris (Flatter) made headlines when storming away from overmatched rivals to take Keeneland’s GII Lexus Raven Run S. by a pole Oct. 18 and then again 16 days later when selling for $2.35 million at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale. She’ll try to generate more bold type in Friday’s...
LA BREA S.-GI, $301,000, SAX, 12-26, 3yo, f, 7f, 1:22 2/5, ft. 1–#@SAM’S SISTER, 118, f, 3, by Brother Derek 1st Dam: Kittery Point (SP), by Include 2nd Dam: Lucy Sims, by Northjet (Ire) 3rd Dam: Join the Waves, by Sailor ($125,000 yrl ’12 KEESEP). O-Mark Dedomenico LLC, Jerry Hollendorfer & George Todaro; B-Brereton C Jones...
By Lucas Marquardt and Brian DiDonato Bolstered by the $2.2-million sale of the 6-year-old Galileo (Ire) mare Up (Ire) and the $800,000 realized by her yearling War Front filly, the second session of Keeneland’s January Horses of All Ages Sale saw relatively steady trade. A total of 248 head sold yesterday for a combined $15,191,200. The average...
Gary Barber’s Ontario native Lexie Lou (Sligo Bay {Ire}) seeks her second U.S. score and first ever on the dirt in today’s GII La Canada S. going 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita. Defeating the boys in the Queens Plate going 1 1/4 miles over the Woodbine synthetic July 6, the Mark Casse pupil followed up with...
The New York Racing Association will take additional steps to further enhance the safety protocols already in place at Aqueduct. This announcement came on the heels of a closed door meeting between NYRA and the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association last weekend to address the fatal breakdowns of several Thoroughbreds racing at Aqueduct this winter. ...
by T.D. Thornton Roman Chapa, a top Texas-based jockey who has been suspended twice before for carrying an illegal electrical device during a race, was removed from his mounts on Monday at Sam Houston Race Park while stewards launched an investigation into whether he used a similar “battery” or “buzzer” while winning a stakes race...
The sprint division is about to get a whole lot more exciting. Unbeaten Mean Season (h, 5, Henny Hughes–Mean Imogene, by Silver Deputy)–last seen posting a jaw-dropping six-furlong optional claiming win with a 107 Beyer Speed Figure over the Aqueduct inner last March (video)–recorded his second straight bullet workout, covering four furlongs in :48.40 (1/12) at Payson...
by Michele MacDonald In a major change of policy, the Japan Racing Horse Association has opted to prohibit owners who are not Japanese residents from selling foals at the annual JRHA Select Sale in July. The decision was announced in a brief statement on the JRHA website, which indicated there had been “no specific limitation”...
Although the race has attracted its three most recent winners, Able Friend (Aus) (Shamardal) will start a heavy favorite as he looks to solidify his status as one of the world’s elite milers in today’s Stewards’ Cup at Sha Tin, granted international Group 1 status for the first time in its history. Following his defeat of Designs...
By Emma Berry Imitation, it is said, is the sincerest form of flattery. In devising the Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Stallion Trail, the Irish studs have followed the example set in the Normandy region, when in 2010 the French farms and the French Racing and Breeding Committee launched La Route des Etalons, which has continued annually....