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Run over the same course and distance as the G1 Dubai World Cup, the final leg of the Al Maktoum Challenge sees Godolphin’s African Story (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) face the starter for the second time since causing an upset in the world’s richest race last year. The 8-year-old will need to show some significant improvement from his...
Richard Hughes, who was crowned British Champion jockey for the last three seasons, has revealed that he will retire from the saddle at the end of 2015 and take up training in Stockton, Hampshire. The Irish-born 42-year-old was in Newmarket Wednesday to attend a trainer’s course at the British Racing School and told Racing Post,...
by James Willoughby When Sheikh Mohammed’s bloodstock adviser John Ferguson took out a licence to train over jumps, this code of racing popular in Britain and Ireland suddenly became more interesting. Watching blue-blooded ex-Maktoum family horses in regular conflict with jumping types promised to be a novelty, even to those of us with limited interest...
Brown Panther (GB) (Shirocco {Ger}) is firmly on course for the G2 DRC Gold Cup at Meydan at the end of this month after pleasing connections in a routine spin after racing at Wolverhampton Monday. It is almost four years since Tom Dascombe’s stayer reduced part-owner and ex-footballer Michael Owen to tears with victory at Royal...
The upward figures observed during the three-day Session I of the 2015 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale continued into Session II Wednesday, resulting in new record average, gross and clearance rate. 115 lots sold on Wednesday for a combined A$3,680,500, while the A$32,004 average demonstrated a 4% increase from last year’s sale. The median also rose...
One year on from annexing the G1 1000 Guineas with Miss France (Ire) (Dansili {GB}), 26-times French Champion trainer Andre Fabre is out to land a repeat victory with High Celebrity (Fr) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) on Sunday 3 May. High Celebrity is one of 29 overseas-trained hopes among the 63 entries for the £410,000 Group 1 contest...
By Steve Sherack Black Rock Thoroughbreds’ unbeaten Far From Over (Blame–Alchemist, by A.P. Indy)–an improbable winner of the Feb. 7 GIII Withers S. (video) in his second career start after stumbling badly at the break, will have a pair of additional co-owners when lining up next for the GI Twinspires.com Wood Memorial S. at Aqueduct Apr. 4. ...
A total of 83 colts have been entered for the QIPCO 2000 Guineas, to be run at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile racecourse Sat. 2 May. The Classic contest was the highest-rated 3-year-old race in the world in 2014 according to figures disclosed Tuesday by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities. The top seven 2-year-old colts of...
Veteran trainer Scott Lake was assessed a suspension of 120 days – twice what was originally reported – by the Maryland Racing Commission as the result of horses in his care testing positive for an anabolic steroid. Mike Hopkins, the MRC’s executive director, said Wednesday that the commission had clarified the penalties handed to Lake....
A solid field of 10 drew for Saturday’s G Donn H. at Gulfstream Park Wednesday. The entries are highlighted by last year’s Donn winner Lea (First Samurai) who, after being sidelined for nearly a year, returned to take the GIII Hal’s Hope S. in impressive fashion Jan. 10. “I’d say, he’s probably coming into the Donn the...
When folks of integrity in the thoroughbred industry like Fred Seitz, John Gosden, and Greg Ferraro DVM speak out to abolish race day medication, I am troubled by those who feel it is necessary to administer intravenous race day medications for a perceived advantage. I have been a breeder for over 32 years and a...
There were no serious injuries, equine or human, in an early-morning fire confined to a multi-purpose building at The Thoroughbred Center on Paris Pike outside of Lexington. More than 75 firefighters battled the blaze, fanned by a high winds, which broke out around 8:15 a.m. and lasted better than two hours. According to the Lexington...