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Sidelined GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Texas Red (Afleet Alex), forced to miss the Triple Crown series due to abscess issues with his right front foot, remains at Santa Anita with trainer Keith Desormeaux. The GII San Vicente S. runner-up hasn’t worked since posting a four-furlong breeze in :51 2/5 Mar. 14. “I haven’t found any major...
Ami’s Flatter (Flatter), who was third in Saturday’s GI Besilu Stable’s Florida Derby, seemed to exit the affair well. Trainer Josie Carroll explained that the connections will decide whether to attempt a run at the GI Kentucky Derby in the coming weeks. “I thought he ran a great race. The speed got away, and he just...
By Christie DeBernardis Seven-time Eclipse Award winner Todd Pletcher approaches the GI Kentucky Derby May 2 fully loaded with six possible runners. Having clinched his second straight GI Florida Derby victory last week with undefeated ‘TDN Rising Star’Materiality (Afleet Alex), the conditioner heads into this big Derby prep weekend with a pair of Grade I-winning colts that...
Four-time Group 1 winner Sacred Falls (NZ) (O’Reilly {NZ}), the latest addition to the stallion roster of Waikato Stud in Matamata, has had his fee set at NZ$30,000. The son of the late champion sire O’Reilly (NZ) remained unbeaten in six starts at two and three in his homeland, culminating in the G1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas....
Qatar Racing’s G1 Racing Post Trophy winner Elm Park (GB) (Phoenix Reach {Ire}) will fine-tune his preparation for the G1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas with a racecourse gallop at Newbury Friday according to trainer Andrew Balding. Speaking at a press event at his Kingsclere stables Tuesday, Balding voiced upbeat comments about his charge. “I can’t remember the last...
Trainer Mike Mitchell, who won no fewer than 19 titles on the Southern California circuit in a career that spanned five decades, passed away late Tuesday in his Monrovia home after a length battle with brain cancer. Mitchell was 11 days shy of his 67th birthday. The son of trainer Earl Mitchell, Mike Mitchell was...
By Bill Finley When the Wesley Ward-trained Banree (Macho Uno), a filly facing males, won yesterday’s second race at Keeneland, the outcome couldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone. The race was a 4 1/2-furlong maiden event in the spring at Keeneland. And doesn’t Ward win every one of those things? Well, not exactly. But sometimes...
by Sue Salk, courtesy of offtrackthoroughbreds.com Sir Prize Birthday, the oldest of the 900+ horses within the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation (TRF) herd, approaches his 35th year of life next month as an accomplished racehorse and teacher who is best remembered as much for his ability to transform self-absorbed inmates as his grit to knock in 206...
Headed by champion sire More Than Ready (Southern Halo), Australia’s Vinery Stud announced the 2015 fees for their roster of 11 stallions reported Racing and Sports. More Than Ready’s fee will stay at A$66,000 despite a A$320,000 yearling average at the recent Inglis Easter Sale and five more juvenile stakes winners this season. First-crop weanling sire and MG1SW All...
Last term’s G1 British Champions Fillies & Mares S. winner Madame Chiang (GB) (Archipenko) is on target for a start in York’s G2 Middleton S. May 14, according to trainer David Simcock. “She is on target for the Middleton,” Simcock said. “It has always been the plan to start her off at York. I have been pleased...
Brazilian rider Joao Moreira continues to rewrite the record books in Hong Kong, as he became the quickest in history to reach the 100-win milestone in a single season with a victory in Wednesday night’s third race at Happy Valley Racecourse. It was also the 200th riding victory since arriving in Hong Kong in October...
In Response to Dr. Gary Priest’ s letter joining the Water Hay Oats Alliance (4/20/15): GARY BISZANTZ, COBRA FARM: Thank you Dr. Gary Priest for your excellent assessment of the major problem confronting American racing, the excessive and often unwarranted use of therapeutic medication used and allowed to be used on or very close to race day. In 2002, I...