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Talented 4-year-old sprinter Bakken (Distorted Humor), who recently returned from a layoff with a front-running allowance score on Oct. 2 at Belmont, is under serious consideration for a start in the $1.5- million GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint, according to trainer Chad Brown. Brown said the lightly raced colt, “is a 50/50 candidate for the Sprint. I need...
Caspar Netscher was looking for his first victory since returning to the racetrack after proving subfertile at stud in 2013. The bay won the 2012 G2 Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen and G3 Greenham S. and was retired to Morristown Lattin Stud in Kildare off a fourth-place effort in that year’s G1 Prix du Moulin. After failing at stud,...
THIRD TIME’S A CHARM FOR RUPEE? Lankan Rupee (Aus) (Redoute’s Choice {Aus}), a three-time Group 1 winner last season and the world’s current highest-rated sprinter, has been turned over in both outings this campaign, but that hasn’t stopped punters making him the $3.80 joint-favorite for tomorrow’s G1 Manikato S. at Moonee Valley. Lankan Rupee earned his...
SHIP-SHAPE Leopardstown’s G3 Killavullan S. has proved a happy hunting ground for Aidan O’Brien, whose record tally of 10 winners include the future G1 2000 Guineas hero Footstepsinthesand (GB) 10 years ago. In a disappointing turnout for the seven-furlong contest, the master of Ballydoyle supplies easily the most interesting runner in Michael Tabor’s Royal Navy Ship (War...
by Jessica Martini Four years ago, Jack Swain took advantage of a weakness in the market to add a couple broodmares to his band. He was able to acquire an 8-year-old named Revealed (Old Trieste) at Keeneland November in 2010, then watched this year as the mare’s 5-year-old Belle Gallantey (After Market) won a pair...
After just 10 months out on his own and the ripe age of 28, British trainer Charlie Fellowes will send out his first Breeders’ Cup candidate in the GI Juvenile Turf Friday in Wet Sail (Henrythenavigator). The Huntington, England-native has spent the majority of his young life in and around the racetrack and now boast a string of 26...
A total of 209 horses–including 70 Group or Grade 1 winners–has been entered for the four events comprising the Longines Hong Kong International Races, to be held Sunday, Dec. 14 at Sha Tin Racecourse. The HKIR offers record purse money of HK$83 million (US$10.7 million) across the four races in 2014, highlighted by the HK$25-million...
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...