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Just six runners will trek postward for Tuesday’s G3 Prix Penelope at Saint-Cloud, but it is nonetheless an open edition of a contest which includes luminaries such as All Along (Fr), Behera (Ire), Wemyss Bight (GB), Mrs Lindsay and Germance on its honor roll. Conditioner Andre Fabre, who seeks an outright record of eight renewals,...
BRIAN FLOETL In regard to Fred Pope’s letter to the editor concerning IHA approval clause: Elimination of the IHA approval clause would render horseman a toothless dog in any fight to negotiate a fair contract. Without the ability to withhold a signal, tracks could simply say take it or leave it. Leaving horsemen powerless to the whims...
GI Toyota Blue Grass S. winner and ‘TDN Rising Star’ Carpe Diem (Giant’s Causeway) will breeze Sunday at Keeneland in preparation for a start in the GI Kentucky Derby May 2. “He has looked very good,” Pletcher said of the colt. “He has handled the moisture in the track very well and I applaud Keeneland for having a...
Trainer Mark Casse has two chances for a second-straight win in Saturday’s $400,000 GIII Illiniois Derby, having saddled Dynamic Impact (Tiznow) in the somewhat maligned Hawthorne feature 12 months ago. Gary Barber’s Kantune(Kantharos) knocked on the door six times before finally breaking through at Oaklawn Jan. 23, but was 10th in that venue’s GIII Southwest S....
In his first published work since finishing second in Keeneland’s GI Blue Grass S. Apr. 4, John Oxley’s Danzig Moon (Malibu Moon) sizzled five furlongs in :58 flat (1/60) under the Twin Spires in preparation for the Kentucky Derby. The Mark Casse pupil was piloted by Julien Leparoux, and worked alongside graded stakes-winning stablemate Tepin (Bernstein), who...
Four-time Group 1 winner Elusive Kate (Elusive Quality–Gout De Terroir, by Lemon Drop Kid) died Saturday after producing her first foal, a colt by Dansili (GB). She was six. Trained by John Gosden for Magnolia Racing and Gosden’s wife Rachel Hood, Elusive Kate made her first five starts for them, winning the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac as...
Mubtaahij (Dubawi {Ire}, the Irish-bred colt who recently annexed the G2 UAE Derby for South African-based trainer Mike De Kock, notched his first piece of American prep work ahead of the May 2 GI Kentucky Derby with a three-furlong move at Arlington Park Tuesday morning. The globe-trotting colt officially breezed three furlongs in :36.20 over the...
The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission stewards issued a pair of rulings dated Apr. 18, suspending trainer Kellyn Gorder for a total of 14 months after a formal hearing. Gorder was fined $5,000 and suspended from May 1, 2015 to Apr. 29, 2016 after Gorder trainee Bourbon Warfare tested positive for methamphetamine (a Class A drug)...
Warrior’s Reward (Medaglia d’Oro) will be the first Spendthrift stallion to shuttle to the operation’s new farm in Victoria, Australia when he ships Down Under for the 2015 Southern Hemisphere breeding season later this year. The Grade I winner, who currently sits seventh in the North American year-to-date second-crop sire list, will participate in the farm’s...
by Jessica Martini and J.M. Severni The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training, which featured its first-ever seven-figure juvenile Wednesday, concluded its four-day run in Ocala Friday and, for the third straight year, the sale enjoyed record-setting figures. Through four days, 676 horses sold for $53,711,400. The average of $79,455 was...
Dundonnell has mostly battled since his purchase by Hong Kong interests a few years back, but perseverance paid off for the former Juddmonte runner when he upset a good field of local short-trackers in the Sprint Cup. Trained for Khalid Abdullah’s operation in England by Roger Charlton, Dundonnell won the G3 Acomb S. in 2012...
Trainer Bob Baffert, who has a powerful duo in Saturday’s GI Kentucky Derby, may be without a starter in Friday’s GI Kentucky Oaks after his two possible contenders worked Monday at Churchill Downs. “TDN Rising Star” Luminance(Tale of the Cat), second in the GI Santa Anita Oaks, worked five furlongs in 1:02.80–22nd fastest of 32 at...