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By Lucas Marquardt How do we attract new owners to racing? Give those interested information, answer their questions, and expose them to the best and brightest our sport has to offer. That was the focus of yesterday’s inaugural Thoroughbred Owner Conference, which attracted a sizeable crowd to Keeneland’s sales pavilion on a rainy fall...
Last month, Fasig-Tipton announced it is moving The Florida Sale, one of the top 2-year-old in training sales in the world, to Gulfstream Park for 2015. It marks the third venue in as many years for the auction, which was held at Adena Springs South in Central Florida in 2014, and at the Palm Meadow...
· With Hall of Famer Mike Smith aboard, two-time champion Beholder (Henny Hughes) breezed a bullet seven furlongs in 1:23.80 starting behind two workmates at Santa Anita. “She galloped out a mile in [one] 38 and looked really good,” trainer Richard Mandella said. “She’ll have another work; I don’t know when or how long, but it won’t be...
Connections of Slade Power (Ire) (Dutch Art {GB}) are hoping the 5-year-old can sign off his career on a high in the VRC Sprint Classic at Flemington Nov. 8. The Edward Lynam-trained entire who races for Mrs. Power will take on the best of the Australian speedsters in their back yard before retiring to Darley’s Kildangan Stud...
POUR MOI COLT ON TOP IN DEAUVILLE By Alix Choppin Solid trade continued to be the order of the day as Arqana’s October Yearling Sale rolled into its third and penultimate session yesterday. The 149 horses offered–from 152 catalogued–grossed €2,975,000, a total almost identical to last year’s €3,004,000 (-0.97%). The average price was substantially up,...
The major yearling sales season ended this week with another 1,272 yearlings sold in the October Yearling Sales at Fasig Kentucky (837) and Arqana (435), both sales averaging, as you can see from the accompanying Weekly Sales Ticker, “in the thirties” ($35,850 at Fasig; €36,427 at Arqana). We’ll have complete tallies for the sale season...
by Emma Berry Qatar, Australia, Dubai and Saudi Arabia are the destinations for the leading lights on the opening day of the Horses-in-Training Sale at Tattersalls, which drew its now customary international buying bench. Conducted under clear-blue autumn skies in unseasonably warm conditions, the first session amassed a turnover of 5,451,000gns–down 1% on the same...
COOLER IS HOT PROPERTY AT TATTERSALLS By Emma Berry Heading the exodus to Dubai for the winter will be Havana Cooler (Ire) (Hurricane Run {Ire}), who topped the third session of the Horses-in-Training Sale at Tattersalls at 425,000gns yesterday. Anthony Stroud maintained the pace set through the first two days by recruiting another clutch of...
A growing list of prominent owners and trainers are stepping up to the plate to support New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program by pledging a percentage of their purse earnings from the 2014 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. For the sixth consecutive year, New Vocations is asking owners and trainers of Breeders’ Cup contenders to pledge a...
Recently retired track announcer Tom Durkin has been named as the recipient of this year’s Big Sport of Turfdom Award, the Turf Publicists of America announced Friday. The annual honor is bestowed upon a person or group of people who enhance coverage of Thoroughbred racing through cooperation with media and Thoroughbred racing publicists. Previous winners...
KODIAC CONQUERS THE FRESHMEN By Emma Berry Rookie stallions may have dominated the upper echelons of the leader board during the first two sessions of the Goffs November Foal Sale, but the proven and popular Kodiac (Ire) (Danehill) put them all in their place late yesterday when his son out of the young Noverre mare...
Frankel may have been the star of the show but his sire Galileo (Ire) is never far from the limelight, and one of the day’s early high prices was given for lot 787, a filly out of Irish 1000 Guineas winner Saoire (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) bred and consigned by Cahermorris Stud. Andrew Rosen is the...