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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...
CAIRO PRINCE INJURED, OUT OF DERBY Cairo Prince (Pioneerof the Nile), the GII Holy Bull S. winner who was expected to be one of the top choices for the GI Kentucky Derby May 3, is out of the race and off the Triple Crown trail after suffering an unspecified ankle injury. The gray colt was most...
We first planned to run the statistics on the sires of all-weather runners before the Keeneland meet began, so TJCIS (The Jockey Club Information Systems) ran them for us on Apr. 2, after Dubai World Cup night. Since then, Britain had its first racing ever on Good Friday, highlighted by a £1-million card on Lingfield’s...
Trainer James Cassidy signed the $400,000 ticket on hip 749, a Super Saver colt who breezed in :21.1. The dark bay is the second foal out of Tell Some Fibs (Tale of the Cat), a full-sister to GISW My Trusty Cat. Cassidy said the colt was purchased on behalf of California businessman Deron Pearson of D...
Mathis Stable’s My Miss Sophia (Unbridled’s Song) and Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings and Philip Steinberg’s Got Lucky (A.P. Indy) worked at Churchill Downs together Saturday in their final preparation for the GI Kentucky Oaks May 1. The duo breezed four panels in :49.40, setting splits of :12.20 and :24.40 with GII Gazelle S. victress My Miss Sophia...