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The Television Games Network will begin offering commingled pools and live racing coverage from Hong Kong’s Happy Valley and Sha Tin racecourses this weekend after entering a multi-year agreement with the Hong Kong Jockey Club, the company announced in a statement Monday. “We know that horse racing customers like large pools with large quality fields...
Two headlines in early April regarding Churchill Downs: * In Louisville Business First (based on a report by WFPL-FM), that the five highest-paid Churchill Downs Inc. (the parent company that owns the tracks, casinos and twinspires.com) executives collected a combined $27.9 million in compensation in 2013. * In the Louisville Courier-Journal, that Churchill Downs will...
By Justina Severini Hip 62, a Harlan’s Holiday filly, was hammered down for $270,000 by Narvick International. The filly breezed in :10 flat in the under-tack show. Narvick International signed the ticket on behalf of Ricky Takahashi. “I like the way she moves–she moves so well,” Takahashi explained. Narvick International had a busy day, signing for...
A colt by champion Curlin will be joining David Shimmon’s Fog City Stable after selling for $700,000 early during Wednesday’s third session of the OBS April sale. J.B. McKathan, bidding out back, signed the ticket on the chestnut (hip 630), who was consigned by Old South Farm as agent for his breeder, Ted Hoover. ...
Likely GI Kentucky Derby favorite California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) breezed four furlongs in :48.20 at his Los Alamitos base yesterday. The flashy chestnut is scheduled to ship to Louisville Monday. “It was a great work,” trainer Art Sherman said. “He galloped out [five furlongs] in 1:01. Everything’s looking good. I’m happy.” Jockey Victor Espinoza added, “It was...
DERBY WORK FOR ‘HOP’ GII Rebel S. winner and GI Santa Anita Derby runner-up Hoppertunity (Any Given Saturday) registered his final pre Kentucky Derby work yesterday, covering a half-mile in :48 during a rain storm at Churchill Downs. He galloped out six panels in 1:13.40, for jockey Martin Garcia, while working with stablemate Drill (Lawyer Ron)....
MEYDAN TO RETURN TO DIRT SURFACE The world’s richest race, the $10 million G1 Dubai World Cup, will once again be contested on dirt after it was announced yesterday that Meydan Racecourse will replace its Tapeta track with dirt. Meydan has used Tapeta, in addition to its 2400 meter turf track, since its opening in...
Steven Coburn and Perry Martin homebred California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) made his first appearance on the main track at Belmont yesterday, jogging once around the 1 1/2-mile course. (Click here for video) “He actually surprised me, how good he was feeling this morning,” said Alan Sherman, assistant trainer to his father Art Sherman. “It’s amazing how quick this...
INTERNATIONAL CAST AT LONDON SALE by Emma Berry A mare in foal to Frankel (GB) and with a Frankel foal at foot was certainly the star package in advance of the sale, but their combined sale price of £1.15 million (US$1,952,876) was not enough to secure top billing at the inaugural Goffs London Sale at...
Tom Kiethley’s Gunpowder Fam is making its presence known, not just in American racing, but across the globe. Kiethely, who had previously worked in the finance industry, began Gunpowder Farm in 2012. “I have always been a racing fan, so I guess it was not a question of if, but when, we would become involved...
At the end of 2006, a total of 1,156 sires which stood or had stood in North America, Europe, and Japan qualified for APEX ratings, meaning, basically, that they had 10 or more 3-year-olds in the last year covered (in that case, foals of 2003 and 3-year-olds of 2006). By midyear 2014–The Jockey Club Information...
by Jessica Martini John Moores and Charles Noell’s Merriebelle Stables, which, in just two years of operation, has already been represented in the sale’s ring by the record-setting broodmare Immortal Verse (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}), will be looking to add to its auction success when it makes its first foray into Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga Selected Yearlings Sale...