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Repole Stable’s MGISW Stopchargingmaria (Tale of the Cat) will put a three-race winning streak on the line while facing older fillies and mares for the first time in Saturday’s GI Beldame Invitational at Belmont Park. Scratched from a showdown with division leader Untapable (Tapit) in last Saturday’s 1 1/16-mile GI Cotillion S. at Parx, Stopchargingmaria has been...
Led by the top three finishers of the GI Travers S., sophomores will be well-represented while facing older horses in today’s GI Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park. Since 2000, the “Win and You’re In” event for the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic has been captured by a 3-year-old four times–Albert the Great (2000); Bernardini...
Sunday, Cologne, Germany 52ND PREIS VON EUROPA-G1, €155,000, COL, 9-28, 3yo/up, 12fT, 2:30.24, gd/sf. 1–#@sEMPOLI (GER), 132, c, 4, by Halling 1st Dam: Estefania (Ger) (SP-Ger), by Acatenango (Ger) 2nd Dam: Eirehill (Ire), by Danehill 3rd Dam: Elegie (Ger), by Teotepec (GB) (€580,000 HRA ‘13 ARQARC). O-Valentin Bukhtoyarov & Evgeny Kappushev; B-Gestut Ebbesloh (Ger); T-Peter...
Douglas Scharbauer’s Fiftyshadesofgold (My Golden Song–Hadif Cat, by Hadif) has been retired after suffering a tear in her left front suspensory. The sophomore won this year’s GIII Eight Belles S. and was runner-up behind Untapable (Tapit) in the GII Fair Grounds Oaks. She was also third via disqualification in last year’s GII Adirondack S. The gray filly...
by Lucas Marquardt The stallion market isn’t what it was a decade ago. The mare population is down significantly, some 40% from the mid-2000s, and with the same number of Grade I races producing the same number of stallions, competition between stud farms for quality mares is fierce. Moreover, breeders burnt by the 2008 fiscal...
One of the season’s premier juveniles, Fiona and Ian Jennings’ Ivawood (Ire) (Zebedee {GB}) robs the limelight from the featured G1 Dewhurst S. on today’s Future Champions Day card at Newmarket as he puts his unbeaten record on the line in the G1 Middle Park S. Flawless so far, the bay followed a five-furlong maiden score at...
RECORD-BREAKING OCTOBER SALE CONCLUDES By Emma Berry Over the last fortnight, the message that the upper and middle tiers of the bloodstock industry are in rude health has been writ large across the manicured lawns of Tattersalls’ Park Paddocks, which has been the scene of almost 130 million guineas-worth of horse trading. The European sector...
‘HONEY’ BC F& M SPRINT BOUND Southern Honey (Colonel John), second in the GII Thoroughbred Club of America S. at Keeneland Oct. 4, will be among the pre-entries for the GI Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Santa Anita Nov. 1. Owned by Ashbrook Farm, the $155,000 KEENOV weanling and $180,000 KEESEP yearling is trained...
The second day of the Arqana Yearling Sale, first of the three-day Part 2, registered results slightly down from 2013, owing to a more selective market as had been seen on day one. A total of 106 of the 138 yearlings on offer changed hands for a clearance rate of 76%, down 6.2% from the...
Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, who has been sidelined since having knee replacement surgery in July, has been booked to ride Martin Schwartz’s Sivoliere (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf next Friday. The bay filly, last seen finishing third in Deauville’s G3 Longines Prix du Calvados for Jean-Claude Rouget...
RAFFLES CUP, S$500,000 (US$392,102), Kranji, 10-26, 3yo/up, 1800mT, 1:46.34, gd. 1–WAR AFFAIR (NZ), 126, g, 4, O’Reilly (NZ)– Kristique, by Kris S. (NZ$70,000 yrl ‘12 NZBPRE). O-Warplan Racing Stable; B-Trelawney Thoroughbred Ltd; T-Tan Hai Wang; J-Danny Beasley; S$297,500. Lifetime Record: 15-11-3-0, S$1,832,889. 2–Goodman (NZ), 126, g, 4, Alamosa (NZ)–Lucky Street (NZ), by Street Cry (Ire). O-V-Day Stable. S$106,250. 3–Stepitup (Aus), 128, g,...
ALLEZ ALEA! Unbeaten and amongst the creme of her crop, Kirsten Rausing’s G3 Prix Thomas Bryon heroine Alea Iacta (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) takes on the colts again in today’s G1 Criterium International at Saint-Cloud. So impressive in that course-and-distance contest last time Oct. 9, the Andre Fabre trainee was six-lengths best easing down in the closing...