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Fontiton (Aus) (Turffontein {Aus}) has yet to put a foot wrong in her short career, and she faces her stiffest test yet in tomorrow’s A$1 million G1 Blue Diamond S., Australia’s second-richest juvenile contest. Fontiton cost Matchem Racing A$110,000 at last year’s Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, and that figure looks like a bargain now that the...
Night Prowler (Giant’s Causeway), winner of the GIII Dania Beach S. Jan. 3 and close third-place finisher in the Pulpit S. Nov. 29, gets the slight nod as the 5-2 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s GIII Palm Beach S. at Gulfstream. The Paul Pompa Jr. homebred is the first foal out of two-time graded stakes winner Mary’s...
Godolphin’s Tarquin (Aus) (Hard Spun) and Gooree Stud’s homebred Speak Fondly (Aus) (Northern Meteor {Aus}) produced a pair of exciting performances to land their respective Group 2 race at Rosehill Saturday, but both are likely to avoid a quick-fire return to the track for the G1 Golden Slipper Mar. 21. Tarquin presented one of Godolphin’s international retained riders, British-based...
Sunday, Abu Dhabi, UAE ABU DHABI CHAMPIONSHIP-G3, AED400,000, Abu Dhabi, 3-15, NH4yo/up & SH 3yo/up, 2200mT, 2:13.50, gd. 1–@DORMELLO (IRE), 125, h, 7, by Dansili (GB) 1st Dam: Field of Hope (Ire) (G1SW-Fr, SW & GSP-Ity & GSP-HK, $490,647), by Selkirk 2nd Dam: Fracci (GB), by Raise A Cup 3rd Dam: Fancy Walk (GB), by Tower...
Australian nursery Ruane will sell its stock in an unreserved dispersal during the Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale May 3-6. “There is no greater thrill than the success of breeding and racing Thoroughbreds and I am sure these horses will give their new owners great rewards,” said Ruane’s John Baxter. “I’ve had a lot...
If anyone knows how to train a winner of the G1 Golden Slipper, it’s Gai Waterhouse. The Hall of Famer has done it five times already, after all, and in Saturday’s edition of the world’s richest juvenile race she has three live chances to tie her late father T J Smith’s record six wins. That...
Darren Smith became the first Australian trainer to be sentenced for cobalt use after Racing New South Wales stewards pronounced a total ban of 15 years on account of 42 charges related to cobalt administration. Between February and May last year, 17 horses from Smith’s Newcastle stable, involved in 20 races, returned elevated levels of...
Interviewed on horseback prior to loading the gate for the Rosehill Guineas, jockey Craig Williams cited Volkstok’n’barrell (NZ) (Tavistock {NZ})’s superior turn of foot in the final 400 meters as the main reason the duo could turn the tables on Mongolian Khan (NZ) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) after being outstayed by that foe in the G1 New Zealand Derby...
Trainer Ed Dunlop has decided to skip an outing in the G1 BMW S. at Rosehill this weekend with two-time G1 Melbourne Cup runner-up Red Cadeaux (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}) and instead wait for the G1 Sydney Cup at Randwick Apr. 11. The globetrotting 9-year-old showed the fire still burns bright when a close fifth over an...
The G1 William Reid S. has previously served as a launch pad for a handful of Australia’s successful Royal Ascot invaders, including Black Caviar (Aus) (Bel Esprit {Aus}) and Miss Andretti (Aus) (Ihtrahim {Ire}), and while none of this year’s participants appear headed that direction, it has drawn some qualities fillies and mares. Angelic Light (Aus) (Holy...
By Michele MacDonald The sprawling complex of Meydan Racecourse buzzed with activity from end to end on Mar. 26 as fans came out en masse to enjoy Breakfast with the Stars and runners from around the world tuned up for their appointed dates with destiny on the $30 million Dubai World Cup program. Hong Kong...
Having taken home the hardware for four Grade Is– including two Classics–and a pair of Eclipse awards, California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) has certainly lived up to his name, and the American Horse of the Year looks to solidify his reputation internationally when he goes postward as the favorite for Saturday’s $10 million G1 Dubai World Cup, the...