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The Japan Racing Horse Association has catalogued 244 yearlings and 241 foals for its Select Sale July 13 and 14. The catalogue will be posted on the JRHA’s website May 29, and printed catalogues will be posted June 5. The catalogue features a selection of foals and yearlings by leading sires Heart’s Cry (Jpn), Symboli...
GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness S. winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) breezed a half-mile in :48 flat Tuesday at Churchill Downs in his first work towards the GI Belmont S. June 6. With jockey Martin Garcia in the saddle, the Zayat colorbearer went in 1/8-mile splits of :12.20, :24, and :35.80 with five furlong gallop...
California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) is set to have a racecourse gallop at Ascot next week ahead of his engagement at the Royal meeting. It is hoped Frankie Dettori will be able to partner last year’s G1 Kentucky Derby and G1 Preakness S. winner in the exercise as he prepares for the G1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes...
Irish trainer Sabrina Harty believes her stable star Ansgar (Ire) (Celtic Swing {GB}) is ready to do himself justice on his seasonal bow in Saturday’s G3 Jury S. at Haydock. The 7-year-old enjoyed a magnificent campaign in 2014, striking gold in the G3 Minstrel S. at the Curragh, the G3 Supreme S. at Goodwood and the G2...
Chantilly’s G1 Prix du Jockey Club has been the property of His Highness The Aga Khan on six occasions since 1979, and it could be a case of seven up in Sunday’s edition with the likely favorite Karaktar (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}) charged with sporting the emerald green. Mastering testing conditions when annexing the Mar. 28 Listed...
Goffs stages its second London Sale Monday, and the boutique event, coined by Goffs Chief Executive Henry Beeby as the “unofficial curtain-raiser to Royal Ascot,” will offer 43 lots at The Orangery at Kensington Palace, with 13 scratches from the catalogue. The offerings are comprised of a select breeze-up bunch followed by horses in training,...
Third in both the G1 English and Irish 2000 Guineas, Ivawood (Ire) (Zebedee {GB}) sets a clear standard as he steps back more into his comfort zone on Wednesday, reverting to seven furlongs for the G3 Jersey S. Beaten three lengths by Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) when forced to race from the front away from the main...
Wesley Ward’s beaming smile has already graced Royal Ascot’s winner’s circle this week courtesy of “The Aeroplane” Acapulco (Scat Daddy) in Wednesday’s G2 Queen Mary S., and the Florida-based conditioner offers up last year’s Listed Windsor Castle S. hero Hootenanny (Quality Road) in the inaugural rendition of the G1 Commonwealth Cup. Edged out of G1 Prix Morny...
With a decent amount of early speed signed on, Saturday’s $500,000 Ohio Derby could set up nicely for a wait-and-sprint runner. But which one will the gamblers fall for? Divining Rod (Tapit) employed front-running tactics when falling just short in the GIII Sam F. Davis S. at Tampa Jan. 31 and when a more well-beaten third...
There are no prizes for guessing that the stallion table at the five-day Royal Ascot meeting was headed by Galileo. With victories from Gleneagles, Curvy and Aloft, the ultra-prolific Coolmore stallion added more than £600,000 to his 2015 bankroll. In doing so, he succeeded in overhauling Golden Horn’s sire Cape Cross to take his habitual...
The 2015 flat season will herald the end of an era at the historic and famed Warren Place Stables in Newmarket as Lady Cecil has announced her intention to retire from training this year. The widow of the late Sir Henry Cecil capped a fantastic 2014 when registering three Group 1 wins with Frankel’s brother Noble...
Saturday’s G2 GAIN Railway S. at The Curragh sees Log Out Island (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) return just nine days after his defeat in Royal Ascot’s G2 Norfolk S., with trainer Richard Hannon hoping he has read the colt’s signals right. Second to Ballydoyle’s Waterloo Bridge (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) in that five-furlong contest, Godolphin’s acquisition–who had been...