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by Alan Carasso In spite of a game-time temperature of 31 degrees, approximately 200 fans from as nearby as Georgetown and from as far as, well, New Jersey, descended on the Hall of Champions at the Kentucky Horse Park to honor the late Cigar, who passed away from complications from neck surgery during the evening...
With 10 juveniles in the main body of the field and a pair of colts hoping to draw in, Saturday’s $1-million GIII Delta Downs Jackpot appears to be almost anyone’s for the taking. Mr. Z (Malibu Moon) figures to vie for favoritism, but the D. Wayne Lukas-trained Zayat Stables colorbearer has built his reputation on second-place finishes...
Plenty of Irish stallions have excelled at the foal sales this week and breeders will have the chance to see many of them in one weekend following the launch of the ITM Irish Stallion Trail on Thursday. In an initiative similar to the popular ‘La Route des Etalons’ held in Normandy each January, more than...
When last they met in the Kentucky Downs Ladies’ Turf S. Sept. 13, I’m Already Sexy (Ready’s Image) was the even-money favorite to the near 6-1 about Strike Charmer. It was 8-5 on the expected pacesetter, but double digits on Strike Charmer, who pounced late to register the upset. A maiden winner over this course...
TOUGH COMPANY Sometimes, things just crystallize right before your eyes: the light goes on. Often this unshakeable conviction unravels at the eighth pole, but occasionally inspiration strikes when you’re trying to divine the secrets of the Thoroughbred marketplace. For the 2015 breeding season in Kentucky, nine stallions at four farms are standing for the same...
Bobby Flay’s Dame Dorothy (Bernardini) takes a perfect four-for-four record into Saturday’s GIII Comely S. at Aqueduct. The morning-line favorite in the nine-furlong affair, Dame Dorothy was tabbed a J “TDN Rising Star” J after her debut victory going seven furlongs over the Aqueduct oval a year ago. She romped by 12 lengths in an...
Mshawish kicked off his career in France with Mikel Delzangles, finishing second in a Group 3 and annexing a listed stakes race as a sophomore. Taken to Meydan for the Dubai World Cup Carnival early this year, the dark bay was second in the G2 Al Fahidi Fort S. at seven panels in January before...
TDN Rising Star Dortmund (Big Brown) can complete a fairy tale season for owner Kaleem Shah and is expected to be a prohibitive favorite in a short field of five juvenile males in Saturday’s GI Los Alamitos Futurity, being contested for the first time at the Orange County oval after 33 renewals at the now-shuttered Hollywood Park...
Travis Stone has been named Churchill Downs’s new track announcer, taking over for Larry Collmus starting at the beginning of the Louisville oval’s Spring Meet beginning Apr. 25. Stone, 30, called the races at Monmouth Park’s 2014 meet and worked as the back-up announcer for the New York Racing Association this winter. Collmus, who will...
Sue Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith’s TDN Rising Star Taris (Flatter) made headlines when storming away from overmatched rivals to take Keeneland’s GII Lexus Raven Run S. by a pole Oct. 18 and then again 16 days later when selling for $2.35 million at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale. She’ll try to generate more bold type in Friday’s...
LA BREA S.-GI, $301,000, SAX, 12-26, 3yo, f, 7f, 1:22 2/5, ft. 1–#@SAM’S SISTER, 118, f, 3, by Brother Derek 1st Dam: Kittery Point (SP), by Include 2nd Dam: Lucy Sims, by Northjet (Ire) 3rd Dam: Join the Waves, by Sailor ($125,000 yrl ’12 KEESEP). O-Mark Dedomenico LLC, Jerry Hollendorfer & George Todaro; B-Brereton C Jones...
By Lucas Marquardt and Brian DiDonato Bolstered by the $2.2-million sale of the 6-year-old Galileo (Ire) mare Up (Ire) and the $800,000 realized by her yearling War Front filly, the second session of Keeneland’s January Horses of All Ages Sale saw relatively steady trade. A total of 248 head sold yesterday for a combined $15,191,200. The average...