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Steve Coburn and Perry Martin’s California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) drew post five for Saturday’s GI Kentucky Derby, prompting a smattering of applause from his connections, and he was installed the 5-2 morning-line favorite on Mike Battaglia’s morning line when post positions were drawn Wednesday evening at Churchill Downs. The flashy chestnut will be ridden by Victor Espinoza,...
Danza (Street Boss), winner of the GI Arkansas Derby, will miss his next scheduled start in the GI Belmont S. June 7, owners Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners announced yesterday. Most recently third in the GI Kentucky Derby, trainer Todd Pletcher was unhappy with the way the chestnut emerged from his four-furlong breeze–completed in :49.49–Sunday at Belmont. ...
MM BROODMARE SALE SMASHES RECORDS The three-day Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale wrapped up on the Gold Coast yesterday with, as expected, records smashed across the board. With the 56-horse Teeley Dispersal highlighting a sale that was complemented by a host of other high-class offerings, the cumulative gross finished at A$69,030,000, a record for the...
BEHIND THE SCENES AT ROYAL ASCOT– THE SILVER RING After years of turning left on Ascot’s High Street, I turned right today and headed into the unfamiliar territory of the Silver Ring. The warnings had been dire: “Be careful what you take with you”; “watch out for drunken louts” and “the Silver Ring–never been there,...
Northwest Stud Makes a Splash The Iadisernia family’s Northwest Stud, which enjoyed a profitable pinhooking spring at the juvenile sales, restocked with flair Monday at Fasig-Tipton July, going to a sale-topping $550,000 to secure a colt (hip 154) by Cowboy Cal. General Manager Alfredo Lichoa handled the bidding assignment on the yearling, who is a...
by Jessica Martini John Moores and Charles Noell’s Merriebelle Stables, which, in just two years of operation, has already been represented in the sale’s ring by the record-setting broodmare Immortal Verse (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}), will be looking to add to its auction success when it makes its first foray into Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga Selected Yearlings Sale...
EXPLOSIVE START TO ARQANA AUGUST By Emma Berry and Claude Beniada Set in the Normandy seaside town of Deauville, Arqana’s curtain-raiser to the European yearling season could not have a better backdrop, and action in the sales ring didn’t disappoint either, with two millionaire yearlings gracing the first select session. The day’s leading lady was...
Gary Barber’s Lexie Lou (Sligo Bay {Ire}) stamped herself as one of the top sophomores of the North this summer with three consecutive black-type wins, and she looks to keep that hot streak going in today’s GII Canadian S. at Woodbine. The 1 1/8-mile turf test is a “Win and You’re In” event granting the victor an...
Behind every Hall of Fame operation is a team of talented, dedicated horsemen and women. One of the people who makes Jerry Hollendorfer’s stable tick is Christina Jelm, a Kentucky-based bloodstock agent who does a little bit of everything for the renowned trainer. At September, that’s meant short-listing and purchasing horses for Hollendorfer and his...
The double digit gains seen in the first session of Book 3 Monday continued yesterday with improved total sales, average and median. This made Tuesday’s session the third consecutive session with increases in all three categories. Day 8 saw 298 yearlings sell for a total of $18,562,000, which is a 13.3% increase over last year....
France’s elite juveniles are beginning to build towards their all-important autumn targets, with today’s G3 Prix des Chenes at Longchamp the first pointer for the G1 Criterium International, and as usual it is to Andre Fabre that all refer as the record-holding trainer looks for an eighth edition. Of his pair, Rashit Shaykhutdinov’s De Treville...
Godolphin trainer Charlie Appleby saddled the winners of six races–all juveniles–in England Monday, taking five races at Kempton and one at Leicester. The feat equaled the Godolphin record of wins in a day. In 2009, trainer Saeed bin Suroor twice won six races in a day for the operation. “It has been a good,...