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And then there was one. One session left at Keeneland November, that is, following yesterday’s penultimate day of selling in Lexington. Numbers were down a bit from last year’s corresponding 10th session. A total of 258 horses sold for $2,917,500, an average of $11,308 that dipped 2.1% from 2013. The median was $6,750, down 10%....
By Andrew Caulfield One common misconception in horse-racing is that speed equals precocity, but these two assets don’t necessarily go hand in hand–as the GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint’s roll of honor sometimes reminds us. The latest winner, Work All Week, is a 5-year-old who gained his first Graded success as recently as October; Amazombie, successful...
by Christina Bossinakis As December quickly approaches, much of the Northern Hemisphere begins to hunker down for winter, while the Southern Hemisphere eagerly welcomes the longer and warmer days of summer. And as is its custom, Magic Millions kicks off the calender year with the Gold Coast Yearling Sale, the first major yearling sale...
BYRON WORKS FOR HONG KONG SPRINT Globetrotting sprinter-miler Gordon Lord Byron (Ire) (Byron {GB}) will make his third visit to the Hong Kong International race meeting Dec. 13, and the 6-year-old pleased trainer Tom Hogan with a racecourse gallop at Dundalk Friday. “It all went perfectly at Dundalk,” Hogan said. “He loves it there–he strode out well...
TATTS YEARLING TRADE ENDS ON A HIGH By Emma Berry Lope De Vega (Ire) is leading all European freshmen sires on the track, and a member of his second crop headed the final session of yearlings to go through the ring at Tattersalls in 2014 when selling for 325,000gns, the highest price at the December...
Trilogy Stable and Laurie Plesa’s Itsmyluckyday (Lawyer Ron) makes the final start of what has been a most successful career at the races in today’s Cigar Mile H. at Aqueduct, the final Grade I event on the New York racing calendar, before entering stud next season at Spendthrift Farm. And there’s every reason to believe...
There is really very little left to accomplish for Cirrus des Aigles (Fr) (Even Top {Ire}), but a victory in Hong Kong, which has proved thus far to be elusive, would be the icing on the cake. Winner of the 2012 G1 Dubai Sheema Classic and runner-up to Gentildonna (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) earlier this term, the...
Courtesy of Gulfstream Park Kiaran McLaughlin arrived at Gulfstream Park’s Championship Meet last year with an ace up his sleeve in the form of Cairo Prince (Pioneerof the Nile), but the conditioner could be holding a full house in his return this winter. Among the horses the Lexington, Kentucky native may have in South Florida are...
By T.D. Thornton By tradition, the honor of winningest horse of the year in North America almost always defaults to the Thoroughbred who has bankrolled the most purse money, and that title is usually locked up upon the running of the Breeders’ Cup. But the race for most victories nearly always comes down to a...
by Ben Massam Zayat Stables’ El Kabeir (Scat Daddy), “TDN Rising Star” and recent winner of the GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. at Churchill Downs, came out of that effort well and is being pointed toward a start in the GII Jerome S. at Aqueduct Jan. 3, according to trainer John Terranova II. The colt registered a six-furlong breeze...
Leading 3-year-olds Bayern (Offlee Wild) and California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) worked Saturday as they prepare for their respective 2015 debuts, which could come in Santa Anita’s Feb. 7 $500,000 GII San Antonio S.–an event that could also feature Friday’s GI Malibu S. hero Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}). Kaleem Shah’s “TDN Rising Star” Bayern, last seen surviving an inquiry in the...
New Zealand Horse of the Year and multiple champion sire O’Reilly (NZ) (Last Tycoon {Ire}–Courtza {NZ}, by Pompeii Court) died in his paddock Tuesday morning announced Waikato Stud. He was 21. “I have to say, I’ve had better years,” said Waikato Stud’s Mark Chittick. A foal of 1993, the Waikato Stud Holdings-bred blossomed into a champion miler,...