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by T.D. Thornton The quiet of the current holiday break on the New York racing circuit was jarred on Friday afternoon by the news that a sharp increase in premiums that horsemen must pay to fund the New York Jockey Injury Compensation Fund could shut down racing and training at Aqueduct and Belmont Park as...
Steven Coburn and Perry Martin’s GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness S. hero California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) was selected as the 2014 Vox Populi Award winner in an online poll with input from the Vox Populi Committee and Penny Chenery. Also known as the ‘Voice of the People’ Award for the horse that resonates most with the...
by Mike Kane Not quite half his lifetime ago, Jerry Bozzo sold his stake in a company and left that career behind. Never one to stay still, some 45 years later, Bozzo is rolling along at 94, breeding and training Thoroughbreds in South Florida. Most likely the oldest active trainer in the country, Bozzo won...
HRTV will once again provide live coverage of the 44th annual Eclipse Awards Saturday, Jan. 17, it was announced by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Form, and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters yesterday. The coverage of the Eclipse Awards, to be held at Gulfstream Park Racing and Casino in Hallandale Beach, Fl,...
Tom Durkin, who retired as the long-time race commentator at the New York Racing Association last August, has joined West Point Thoroughbreds as an equity partner on several horses within the partnership, including the promising Phantom Phasr (Ghostzapper), who is scheduled to make her debut over the winter. “We are thrilled to welcome Tom to...
Jerry Hollendorfer, Mark Dedomenico and George Todaro’s GI La Brea S. heroine Sam’s Sister (Brother Derek) looks to provide her trainer with his second straight renewal of today’s GII Santa Monica going seven panels at Santa Anita. Also entered in Saturday’s 1 1/16-mile GII La Canada S., the 4-year-old was scratched in favor of this test, which...
Ralph M. Evans’s Upstart (Flatter) showed trainer Rick Violette he was ready for a start in Saturday’s GII Holy Bull S. with a sharp six-furlong drill at Palm Meadows Sunday in 1:12.30. “We needed to do something a little quick,” Violette said of the work. “They need to be ready, even if they’re not ready to have...
Suzanne Stables colorbearer Barbados (Speightstown), winner of Gulfstream’s six-furlong Spectacular Bid S. Jan. 3, takes the next logical step in today’s seven-panel GIII Hutcheson S. The bay romped by five lengths going turf to slop at Keeneland Oct. 16 while trained by Kellyn Gorder for WinStar Farm, and subsequently brought a session-topping $340,000 at Keeneland November. “The...
Sky Classic (Nijinksky II–No Class, by Nodouble), a member of the Canadian Hall of Fame, has been retired from stud duty at the age of 28 and will be pensioned at Josephine Abercrombie’s Pin Oak Stud. Sky Classic sired six champions, 10 Grade I winners, and 59 stakes winners in his 19 crops of racing age....
On Jan. 15, the European Pattern Committee announced a number of changes for 2015, several pertaining to the Autumn 2-year-old racing program in Europe. One of them was to move the G1 Middle Park S., to an earlier date, a fortnight before the G1 Dewhurst S., and also revert the running of the Dewhurst S. to...
by Gai Waterhouse Up until the advent of ‘The Championships’ in 2014 and the revamping of the 10 furlong (2000 meter) G1 Queen Elizabeth S., the richest race in Sydney was the G1 Golden Slipper for 2-year-olds. I know that many in the Northern Hemisphere can’t believe that in a racing-mad country like Australia, one...
Eight fillies and mares will face the starter in the one-mile G2 Cape Verdi S., six of which will be making their seasonal reappearance. Eight years ago, Alain de Royer Dupre sent out the winner of this race in Sanaya (Ire) (Barathea {Ire}), and the Chantilly conditioner will be hoping for a repeat scenario with...