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With the San Gabriel mountains providing a spectacular backdrop, there was no shortage of Breeders’ Cup runners stretching their legs on a picturesque Tuesday morning at Santa Anita. Sir Michael Stoute’s imposing duo of Telescope (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Dank (GB) (Dansili {GB}) quietly made their way along the outer rail for their first appearance after clearing quarantine shortly...
LIVING THE DREAM The G1 Myer Classic is the primary target for fillies and mares during the Melbourne Spring carnival, and this event has produced the likes of Horse of the Year Typhoon Tracy (Aus) (Red Ransom) and four-time Group 1 winner Divine Madonna (Aus) (Hurricane Sky {Aus}). May’s Dream (Aus) (New Approach {Ire}) provided her sire...
NO NAY NEVER TO COOLMORE AFTER TURF SPRINT No Nay Never (Scat Daddy) will be retired after today’s GI Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint and will stand at Coolmore’s headquarters in Ireland in 2015. A debut winner at Keeneland last year for Susan Magnier and Ice Wine Stable, No Nay Never added Royal Ascot’s G2 Norfolk S....
JUST A WAY RETAINS LONGINES CROWN Japan’s Just A Way (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn}) retained his position atop the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings when the latest edition of those ratings were released yesterday. The 5-year-old earned a mark of 130 for his 6 1/4-length victory in the G1 Dubai Duty Free Mar. 29, and Just A...
GOFFS NOVEMBER BEGINS TODAY By Kelsey Riley The mixed sales scene today shifts across the Atlantic to Ireland, where Goffs kicks off its six-day November Sale with its first of four days of foal sales at the Kill Paddocks in County Kildare. The two-day Breeding Stock Sale will bring proceedings to a close Nov. 21...
LOPE DE VEGA A FIRM FAVORITE AT GOFFS By Emma Berry Few stallions will make such a stellar start at stud as Lope De Vega (Ire) (Shamardal), and the success of his first crop on the track this season has had positive repercussions for his foals on sale at Goffs this week, with four of...
Continuing the Aga Khan domination of the opening session, lot 1132, Shalamantika (Ire) (Nashwan), was knocked down to Adrian Nicoll of BBA Ireland for €200,000. In foal to former Australian champion sire Redoute’s Choice (Aus), who shuttles to the Aga Khan’s Normandy-based Haras de Bonneval from Paul Messara’s Arrowfield Stud, the 15-year-old mare is already the...
No 3-year-old has ever won the G1 Hong Kong Sprint, in fact, few have even tried. But Peniaphobia (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}) will try to change that after he was able to overcome the 14 hole and a very wide passage to take this course-and-distance prep in the G2 Jockey Club Sprint. Winner of the 2013 Weatherbys...
Young Juddmonte stallion Bated Breath (GB) has found favour with plenty of people on the hunt for foals at Tattersalls and his son out of the Pivotal (GB) mare Frabjous (GB) (lot 357) created one of his early sales-ring highlights when being knocked down to Brendan Morrin of Pier House Stud for 65,000gns (US$107,823). Last...
JUDDMONTE JEWELS ON OFFER AT TATTS By Kelsey Riley While the bloodstock market has moved through a series of phases over the last decade, not least a recession and correction as a result of the global economic downturn, one constant has always been the presence of the Juddmonte Farms draft of mares and fillies off...
RECORD TURNOVER FOR ARQANA IN 2014 Arqana has posted increases in most areas annually since it was formed in 2006, and this year was another landmark one for France’s flagship sales company. Arqana’s 10 sales posted a record turnover of €119,945,600, with the 80.8% sold and average of €45,384 also records. Arqana’s yearling market was...
Officials at Magic Millions in conjunction with Racing Queensland have announced the creation of the Jeep Magic Millions Raceday, the country’s first-ever A$10-million program, to be held Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016. The meeting, which will rank among the world’s 10 richest, is part of a seven-year partnership which is intended to take the summer racing...