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Last year’s Cartier champion 2-year-old filly Tiggy Wiggy (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), a brave third in the G1 1000 Guineas Sunday after carving out the pace, is set for a return to sprinting. “I was very proud of Tiggy Wiggy,” said trainer Richard Hannon. “We were dipping our toes into unknown territory and she came home with her...
Michael Tabor and Rachel Hood’s Christophermarlowe (Tapit), the unbeaten winner of the Investec Derby Trial at Epsom Apr. 22, is among the 14 entries for Saturday’s Listed Derby Trial S. at Lingfield. “Christophermarlowe goes to Lingfield on Saturday for the Derby Trial,” said trainer John Gosden. “We’ve put him in the [G3] Chester Vase [May 7] as...
The Dermot Weld-trained, Sheikh Hamdan-owned Zawraq (Ire) (Shamardal), a general 10-1 for the G1 Epsom Derby on the back of an eye-catching score in the Listed 2000 Guineas Trial S. at Leopardstown Apr. 12, could skip Sunday’s G3 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial if the ground is too soft, Weld told At the Races. Zawraq’s regular rider, Pat...
The focus of the Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale turned to select broodmares for its second session Monday, and like the Easter yearling sales at the Newmarket complex in Sydney last month, there was a decidedly international flavor to proceedings, with the top two lots going to Chinese investor Yu Long Investments. The session...
By Kelsey Riley The driving rain that forced the postponement of opening day of The Championships seemed a distant memory in Sydney Sunday as an international cross-section of buyers inspected the 605 yearlings on offer for the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale under bright and sunny skies. Shoppers from all corners of the globe have...
by Bill Finley Yes, anything is possible, particularly when it comes to a 20-horse rodeo where form sometimes goes out the window. But can you really see someone other than Todd Pletcher or Bob Baffert winning the Kentucky Derby? Whatever chance those not named Todd or Bob had of winning the Derby diminished significantly yesterday...
Three Chimneys Farm and Besilu Stable’s Dubai Sky (Candy Ride {Arg}), winner of the Mar. 21 GIII Spiral S., suffered a condylar fracture to his left hind cannon bone during a gallop at Churchill Downs Saturday. “The fracture was surgically repaired by Dr. Larry Bramlage at Rood and Riddle earlier this [Saturday] afternoon and Dubai Sky has...
Retired trainer Robert Lake, a stalwart in New York for four decades, died Wednesday at the age of 82 at Saratoga Hospital. Lake settled in Saratoga Springs in 1999 after a 49-year career that began July 7, 1950, when the 17-year-old won with the first horse he saddled, Big Fly, at Pleasanton, CA. He was...
by T.D. Thornton The Internal Revenue Service filed a “notice of proposed rulemaking” and opened a 90-day public comment period on Wednesday that deals with changes to the reporting of gambling winnings. But the proposed changes, as currently written, do not specifically include pari-mutuel wagering. The IRS’s “unified agenda” on this matter, as detailed on...
Alex and JoAnn Lieblong’s ‘TDN Rising Star’ The Big Beast (Yes It’s True) exited his Oaklawn allowance victory Mar. 1 in good order and will make his next start in that venue’s GIII Count Fleet Sprint H. Apr. 9. “It’s all just turned out very, very good for us,” trainer Tony Dutrow said. “Those horses [in the...
A potential warm-up for the G1 Dubai Turf (formerly Dubai Duty Free), the G1 Jebel Hatta was won last year by Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Maktoum’s Vercingetorix (SAf) (Silvano {Ger}), who went on to take second in the main race, over six lengths off “Best Racehorse in the World” Just A Way (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn})...
There has been a lot of buzz surrounding champion Take Charge Brandi (Giant’s Causeway) as the racing world waited for her connections to decide whether she would make her next start in Oaklawn’s GIII Honeybee S. Saturday or face the boys for the first time in the GII Rebel S. Mar. 14. The ‘TDN Rising Star’s’ name was absent...