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Steve Coburn and Perry Martin’s California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) faces a strong field of eight foes as he makes his racetrack return in today’s $1 million GI Pennsylvania Derby. The GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness S. hero has not been seen since finishing a disappointing dead-heat fourth in his Triple Crown try in the June 7...
King of Prussia Stable’s four-time Grade I winner Princess of Sylmar (Majestic Warrior–Storm Dixie, by Catienus) will be offered at the upcoming Fasig-Tipton November sale through the Taylor Made Sales Agency consignment. Winner of last year’s GI Kentucky Oaks, Princess of Sylmar also won the 2013 GI Alabama S., Beldame Invitational S. and GI Coaching Club American...
Undefeated champion Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}) breezed a half-mile over the Golden Gate Tapeta in :47.60, which was the fastest of 14 works at that distance yesterday. Piloted by jockey Ricardo Gonzalez, the dark bay galloped out five panels in 1:01 flat. Last seen defeating the likes of Game On Dude (Awesome Again) in the GI...
Newsells Has a Date With Destiny at Tatts… By Emma Berry For slightly less than 24 hours last October, Newsells Park Stud held the record for the most expensive yearling sold at public auction in Europe when its Galileo (Ire) colt out of Shastye (Ire) (Danehill) sold for 3.6 million guineas to MV Magnier. That...
Spendthrift Farm’s two-time champion Beholder (Henny Hughes) will mount a last-ditch effort to earn her third Eclipse Award as she tries to defend her title in the GI Zenyatta S. at Santa Anita today. The 2012 champion juvenile filly used this spot last year as a springboard to a 4 1/4-length score in the GI Breeders’ Cup...
WinStar stallion Super Saver (Maria’s Mon) has shot to the head of the class, with progeny earnings approaching $1 million and a Grade I winner to his credit, and his half-brother Charge Now (Tiznow) will try to do the family proud in today’s GIII Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park. While not quite as precocious as Super Saver,...
The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale gets underway in Timonium Monday morning at 10 a.m. A total of 450 yearlings have been catalogued for the one-day auction. During the 2013 fall yearling sale, Fasig-Tipton sold 289 head for a gross of $7,469,900. The average was $25,847–up 15.7% from the 2012 figure–and the median was $17,000,...
by Emma Berry Last year his late stud-mate Montjeu (Ire) ruled the roost at Goffs, but Galileo was back in his rightful position at the head of proceedings on Tuesday when his son out of the high-achieving Danehill mare Scribonia (Ire) (lot 19) topped the first day of trade at €1.5 million. The sole seven-figure transaction...
Toronado (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}) has been ruled out of Saturday’s G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. at Ascot and will now head straight to the GI Breeders’ Cup Mile. The 4-year-old was one of the leading contenders for the QIPCO-sponsored event over a mile on Champions Day after defeating American ex-pat Verrazano (More Than Ready) in...
Newmarket’s new initiative needs a star filly as well as a colt to illuminate the card and Lucida (Ire) (Shamardal) could be the answer in today’s G1 Dubai Fillies’ Mile. Already successful in the venue’s Sept. 26 G2 Rockfel S., Godolphin’s bay looked as if this step up in trip would suit as she ground out that...
The stewards at Indiana Grand Racecourse have determined that the incidents in race eight at the Shelbyville, IN oval Oct. 14 that resulted in the death of apprentice jockey Juan Saez and the euthanization of two horses were not the result of negligence or improper implementation of track protocol. After reviewing the race video and...
CIRRUS HONG KONG BOUND Veteran globetrotter Cirrus des Aigles (Fr) (Even Top {Ire}), fifth as the favorite in Saturday’s G1 Qipco Champion S. at Ascot, emerged from that turnover in good shape and will now target Hong Kong’s International Meeting Dec. 13 for the fifth time, trainer Corine Barande-Barbe told Racing Post. Despite the 8-year-old’s favorable record...