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Sam Kavanagh, a trainer at Rosehill in Australia, has had his training license suspended by the Racing NSW stewards Wednesday and will face an inquiry concerning eight charges involving cobalt and caffeine in three of his horses June 4 reported Racing and Sports. His license status depends on the outcome of the hearing. Midsummer Sun...
Unlike Saturday’s colts’ Classic, which appears cut-and-dried, Sunday’s G1 Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas at The Curragh looks a stronger affair with little deadwood among the 18 fillies confirmed. ‘TDN Rising Star’ Found (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) has drawn five under Ryan Moore and is the likely favorite on the basis of her success in the G1 Prix Marcel...
A pair of fillies by Lane’s End stalwart Lemon Drop Kid look to lead the market for Sunday’s GIII Selene S. at Woodbine. Pin Oak Stable’s Don’t Leave Me is batting .750 coming into her second start of the season, including a perfect two-from-two mark over Polytrack. The narrow winner of her rained-off six-furlong debut last August,...
Despite the usual strong overseas challenge, there are real prospects of Cologne’s G2 Mehl-Mulhens- Rennen, or German 2000 Guineas, staying at home on Monday with Pearl Bloodstock’s unbeaten Karpino (Ger) (Cape Cross {Ire}) in attendance. Following a four-length win on debut at Hoppegarten in September, the bay rubber-stamped his prominent placing among his country’s sophomores when taking...
The Aga Khan’s 4-year-old filly Dolniya (Fr) (Azamour {Ire}), winner of the G1 Dubai Sheema Classic when last seen Mar. 28, will make her British debut in the G1 Coronation Cup June 6. Dolniya is lightly raced, having made just eight starts to date, but she has made the most of those opportunities, having also won the...
by Rob Burnet, Thoroughbrednews.com.au The 2015 edition of the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale was always going to have big shoes to fill compared to last year, when the horses comprising the dispersal of Teeley Assets took centerstage, resulting in sensational statistical gains. Nevertheless, Wednesday opening session of the sale posted results that were...
The road to a third G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe for France’s wonder mare Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) starts at Saint-Cloud Friday, where the G2 Prix Corrida takes on vastly increased significance. Honoring the memory of the only other mare in history to win two renewals of Longchamp’s showpiece, this race serves as a stepping stone...
Robert Evans’s ‘TDN Rising Star’ Tonalist (Tapit) breezed five furlongs in 1:01.23 (7/13) at Belmont Friday morning in his final work for the GI Metropolitan H. June 6. The bay, who was ridden by regular exercise rider Lee Vickers, galloped out six furlongs in 1:14, according to trainer Christophe Clement. “It was a nice maintenance work; he...
Dual Guineas winner Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will likely remain in the June 6 G1 Epsom Derby at Monday’s confirmation stage, trainer Aidan O’Brien reported from Chantilly Sunday. While it appeared more likely that Gleneagles would stick to a mile for the G1 St. James’s Palace S. at Royal Ascot after his G1 Irish 2000 Guineas win...
by Mike Kane Saratoga Springs Mayor Joanne Yepsen has asked for a 30-day extension of the comment period on the environmental review of a list of proposed changes in the redevelopment of the Saratoga Race Course. The comment period on the multi-year project developed by the New York Racing Association ends Monday. Yepsen was one...
Of all the British races to concentrate the mind of Aidan O’Brien, Royal Ascot’s G1 St James’s Palace S. obviously takes high rank in importance with a record-equaling six winners emanating from Ballydoyle since the turn of the millennium. Traditionally by this time of year the Rosegreen establishment is hitting top stride and there is...
With Leading Light (Ire) Montjeu {Ire}) off the scene, Thursday’s G1 Gold Cup is there for the taking for the current crop of stayers, of which Moyglare Stud’s Forgotten Rules (Ire) (Nayef) is the obvious pick. Only raced three times on the flat, the 5-year-old has been handled with great patience and tenderness by Dermot Weld, and...