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Last year’s G1 Moyglare Stud S. winner Cursory Glance (Distorted Humor) is moving towards a comeback, according to trainer Roger Varian, but the Newmarket conditioner stressed he is in no rush with his former G1 1000 Guineas favorite when issuing an update Sunday. Cursory Glance was forced to the sidelines for the first part of the season...
By Emma Berry It’s been dubbed the unofficial curtain-raiser for Royal Ascot and Goffs’ London Sale certainly hits the right note when it comes to a mix of high-class bloodstock and party atmosphere. Hosted in association with Ascot’s major collaborator QIPCO, the sale didn’t quite scale the dizzy heights set in the inaugural session twelve...
by Dean Towers On Saturday June 6th, a strapping colt raced across the finish line in the Belmont Stakes with ridiculous ease to become the 12th Triple Crown Champion. The sport rejoiced as we would expect it to, however, so did just about everyone else. American Pharoah did what the general public thought was impossible...
Super impressive in two California starts off a private purchase by Hronis Racing, Stellar Wind (Curlin) lost some of that luster when finishing a mildly disappointing fourth as the favorite behind Lovely Maria (Majesticperfection) in the GI Kentucky Oaks May 1. The chestnut will look to atone for that effort as she returns to California for the...
G1 Epsom Oaks heroine Qualify (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) looks set to take her chance against the colts in the G1 Irish Derby at The Curragh this Saturday. Thanks to the new ‘win and you’re in’ incentive associated with certain races in the build-up the Dubai Duty Free sponsored event the Aidan O’Brien trained filly will form...
Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) looks likely to take the next step en route to her historic bid for a third G1 Prix De L’Arc de Triomphe when she lines out for the G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud in Paris this Sunday. A field of thirteen have been left in at this stage including the Andre Fabre trained Flintshire...
Second only to his peerless stable companion Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) so far, Godolphin’s color-bearer Jack Hobbs (GB) (Halling) gets his chance to shine away from that barnmate in Saturday’s 150th renewal of the G1 Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at The Curragh. Making great strides since his Wolverhampton debut win six months ago, the...
Popular TVG analyst and former trainer Simon Bray was recently diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare form of cancer. “A month ago I was in the healthiest and best condition of my life, so it was surprising when I broke a vertebra in my back after one of my routine workouts,” Bray said in a...
by Jessica Martini Exchange wagering will likely make its debut in the U.S. when live racing returns to Monmouth Park in May after the New Jersey track and Betfair reached a five-year agreement earlier this week. The state’s legislature approved exchange wagering–which allows fans to wager against one another, set their own odds and wager...
6th-GPX, $42,000, Msw, 3yo, f, 5 1/2f, 1:04 4/5, ft. +SLOANE SQUARE (f, 3, Giant’s Causeway– Marylebone {GISW, $171,800}, by Unbridled’s Song), whose dam annexed the 2003 GI Matron S. for these same connections, was backed down to 4-5 favoritism for this unveiling, one day after her omnipresent conditioner took home the Eclipse for outstanding trainer....
By Bill Finley The mare, now 7, stands in the ring, so still, content and gentle that there’s no doubt she is at peace with herself and her world around her. She seems to understand that she is safe and loved and that nothing bad will ever happen to her again. Amanda Shelton, her...
by Heather Likins John Fort’s Peachtree Stables has experienced a gamut of thrills in Thoroughbred racing. He almost lost promising 2-year-old Invisible Ink (Thunder Gulch) to illness, and the next season got to watch as that colt finished second in the 2001 GI Kentucky Derby to Monarchos (Maria’s Mon). Plum Pretty (Medaglia d’Oro) won...