Browse
This is the archive of all the old shared content.
by Mike Kane The $1.1 trillion spending bill passed by the U.S. Senate on Saturday will prevent any horse slaughter plants from re-opening in this country for at least another year. The omnibus appropriations bill does not provide any funding for the Department of Agriculture to pay personnel to inspect plants. Equine slaughterhouses are not...
Spendthrift Farm’s two-time champion Beholder (Henny Hughes) returned to trainer Richard Mandella’s Santa Anita barn yesterday. The bay had been turned out at Peacefield Farm in Temecula, California, recovering from a fever which forced her to be scratched from the GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff Oct. 31, where she was favored to score a repeat victory. She was...
GOODWOOD, QATAR IN SPONSORSHIP DEAL Goodwood Racecourse and Qatar have entered into a 10-year sponsorship deal that is the most significant in the history of British racing. The deal will result in over £2 million being invested into prize money for eight races during the Qatar Goodwood Festival–also known as Glorious Goodwood–in 2015, with a...
Winless in three starts at two, Alert Bay (City Zip) scored for the seventh time in 10 starts this season and remained perfect in four appearances since a private purchase by these connections earlier this summer. Winner of this track’s restricted Echo Eddie S. going 6 1/2 furlongs on the main in April, Alert Bay was third in...
FOUR EUROPEAN BARGAINS Last week we wrote about four Kentucky stallions we reckon are very good buys for 2015 which breeders might actually still be able to get to. Here are four in Europe. Happy New Year! SO YOU THINK (NZ), 2006h. High Chaparral (Ire)–Triassic (NZ), by Tights First Foals 2014, Coolmore (IR), €12,500 The...
Last week we looked at the top 50 sires with 200+ year-starters (‘runners’) 2008-2014 by the signature APEX A Runner Index (click here). This week we’d like to look at three more Top 50’s, as well as sires with first foals 2010 (4-year-olds of 2014) and 2011 (3-year-olds of 2014). As we mentioned last week,...
By Lucas Marquardt The Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale concluded its four-day run yesterday in Lexington with declines in average and median, but with plenty of action on quality horses and solid trade from beginning to end, most agree the sale marked the near conclusion of a successful–and notably stable–2014 bloodstock sales season. ...
by Marie Kizenko The 44th annual Eclipse Awards were held last night with great fanfare in Gulfstream Park’s Sport of Kings showroom, and California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) ended up with the major hardware in the Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old male titles. He was trained by Art Sherman for owner/breeders Steve Coburn and Perry Martin,...
The Rosehill trials on Tuesday morning were dominated by a trio of Golden Slipper entries, who also share the distinction of being siblings to former Golden Slipper heroes. Corumbene Stud’s Outreach (Aus) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}), trained by Peter and Paul Snowden, was the first to score over 900m, with jockey Hugh Bowman aboard, posting...
Trainer Peter Moody, who is under scrutiny from Racing Victoria stewards for a cobalt positive, could be facing action by Racing NSW officials after a horse under his care tested positive on two occasions for ibuprofen, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, Racing and Sports reports. The horse in question is House of Hingis (NZ) (Swiss Ace...
By Bill Finley, Special to ESPN.com Yes, Main Sequence is an older male horse who had an outstanding year. No, he should not have been named champion older male horse. While those may seem like completely contradictory statements, they are anything but. Since the industry first began awarding year-end championships there was, for the longest...
ROD STREET, Chief Executive, British Champions Series On Jan. 15, the European Pattern Committee announced a number of changes for 2015, several pertaining to the autumn 2-year-old racing program in Europe. One of them was to move the G1 Middle Park S. to an earlier date, a fortnight before the G1 Dewhurst S., and also...