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by T.D. Thornton The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission voted 8-4 on Monday to allow tracks to write race conditions that bar horses from receiving furosemide within 24 hours of post time. The TDN learned of the vote via multiple social media postings by attendees at the meeting, but could not reach KHRC officials for independent...
Courtesy attheraces.com, by Kevin Blake ALOFT (IRE) (3, c, Galileo {Ire}–Dietrich) Rated 111, he won a maiden at Newmarket prior to finishing a never-nearer second in the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster. “The first day at Gowran he took forever to get going and then went to the line strong and at Newmarket you’d think he...
The Hunter Valley, Australia’s Thoroughbred breeding capital, is once again under threat from new coal mines, with the mining company Anglo American having submitted its third proposal to cut ground within miles of Darley and Coolmore. The plans submitted by Anglo American last year were rejected by the New South Wales government’s planning assessment commission...
Andrew Black and Michael Owen’s Group 1 winner Brown Panther (GB) (Shirocco {Ger}) has twice won stakes first-up off a winter layoff, and that is exactly what the 7-year-old bids to accomplish in Saturday’s G2 Dubai Gold Cup. Brown Panther recorded his first big-race win when taking the prestigious King George V H. at Royal Ascot in...
A total of 884 quality lots have been catalogued for the extended Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale, which will be four days this year and will run from May 3-6 at Inglis’s Newmarket complex in Sydney. The Platinum weanling session will kick off proceedings with 149 lots, for which X-rays will be available for...
By Lucas Marquardt Editor’s note: Leading up to the 2015 Breeders’ Cup, our Lexington-based reporter, Lucas Marquardt, is filing a series of stories on how Keeneland and its home city will go to extraordinary means to stage an extraordinary event. Last month, he covered on-track accommodations. Today, he looks at hotel space. Later this year, the...
Just six runners will trek postward for Tuesday’s G3 Prix Penelope at Saint-Cloud, but it is nonetheless an open edition of a contest which includes luminaries such as All Along (Fr), Behera (Ire), Wemyss Bight (GB), Mrs Lindsay and Germance on its honor roll. Conditioner Andre Fabre, who seeks an outright record of eight renewals,...
BRIAN FLOETL In regard to Fred Pope’s letter to the editor concerning IHA approval clause: Elimination of the IHA approval clause would render horseman a toothless dog in any fight to negotiate a fair contract. Without the ability to withhold a signal, tracks could simply say take it or leave it. Leaving horsemen powerless to the whims...
GI Toyota Blue Grass S. winner and ‘TDN Rising Star’ Carpe Diem (Giant’s Causeway) will breeze Sunday at Keeneland in preparation for a start in the GI Kentucky Derby May 2. “He has looked very good,” Pletcher said of the colt. “He has handled the moisture in the track very well and I applaud Keeneland for having a...
Trainer Mark Casse has two chances for a second-straight win in Saturday’s $400,000 GIII Illiniois Derby, having saddled Dynamic Impact (Tiznow) in the somewhat maligned Hawthorne feature 12 months ago. Gary Barber’s Kantune(Kantharos) knocked on the door six times before finally breaking through at Oaklawn Jan. 23, but was 10th in that venue’s GIII Southwest S....
In his first published work since finishing second in Keeneland’s GI Blue Grass S. Apr. 4, John Oxley’s Danzig Moon (Malibu Moon) sizzled five furlongs in :58 flat (1/60) under the Twin Spires in preparation for the Kentucky Derby. The Mark Casse pupil was piloted by Julien Leparoux, and worked alongside graded stakes-winning stablemate Tepin (Bernstein), who...
Four-time Group 1 winner Elusive Kate (Elusive Quality–Gout De Terroir, by Lemon Drop Kid) died Saturday after producing her first foal, a colt by Dansili (GB). She was six. Trained by John Gosden for Magnolia Racing and Gosden’s wife Rachel Hood, Elusive Kate made her first five starts for them, winning the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac as...