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Bloodstock agent Steve Shahinian, bidding on behalf of Canadian real estate developer Cam Allard, saw off Wounded Warrior Stable’s Chip McEwan, sitting alongside Danzel Brendemuehl, to secure a son of Indian Charlie for $400,000 during Wednesday’s third session of the OBS sale. “He was a very efficient mover, with a good mind,” Shahinian, who...
Arnold Zetcher and Michael Tabor’s GI Santa Anita Oaks and GI Las Virgenes S. heroine Fashion Plate (Old Fashioned) had her final preparations for the GI Kentucky Oaks at Santa Anita yesterday, drilling five furlongs in 1:00.40 (11/53). “She worked in company and went very, very well,” Callaghan said. “I got her in a minute...
Keeneland will no longer advertise in “Indian Charlie” nor distribute the newsletter on their grounds, the association announced yesterday. The decision follows comments made in the Indian Charlie newsletter’s Saturday, April 26 edition. A story in that edition advised that trainers could avoid the prospect of having an undercover PETA agent in their barn...
THE RIDE OF THEIR LIFE The Singapore International Races may not be up there with the likes of the Arc de Triomphe or Royal Ascot, but every year it can be relied upon to provide a ‘seat of your pants’ experience. This year was no exception. Singapore Champion jockey Joao ‘Magic’ Moreira had returned to...
MORE MAGIC ON THE GOLD COAST By Rob Burnet, thoroughbrednews.com.au Inevitably, the second session of the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at Bundall on the Gold Coast yesterday was quieter price-wise than the international fervor for the Teeley Assets Dispersal on Wednesday, but business was exceptional once again for Australian domestic buyers. While the buyback...
Every year we come back and see again: this is the best week of racing in the world. It’s a massive social event, too, with a sea of people who looked like they walked off the set of “My Fair Lady,” but for the professionals that’s a pleasant sideline. It’s really about the racing. Impossibly...
ACTION LIVELY AHEAD OF JRHA SALE Story and photos by Michele MacDonald Optimism bubbled as freely as the champagne during the Japan Racing Horse Association’s lively presale party yesterday, with consignors and buyers alike boldly predicting that the two-day auction could produce stronger trade than last year’s record-obliterating sale. The effervescent atmosphere reached a crescendo...
By Bill Oppenheim It’s no big secret that the Coolmore policy is that bigger numbers equal more chances to have a Household Name equals more seasons sold. Sadler’s Wells, 14-time champion sire in Britain and Ireland, averaged 100 foals per crop. His sonGalileo’s recent crops have averaged 160, so for him to be running...
THE KENDARGENT STORY CONTINUES By Sue Finley The 2013 Arqana August Yearling Sale marked the beginning of the coming of age for the French sire Kendargent (Fr), when his Luxe Vendome (Fr), a half-brother to G1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Style Vendome (Fr) (Anabaa) and the multiple Group 1-placed Prestige Vendome (Fr) (Orpen), produced...
By Steve Sherack Coming off a powerful come-from-behind victory in the GII Suburban H. at Belmont Park July 5, Thomas Coleman’s streaking homebred Zivo (True Direction) will look to make it seven straight wins in Saturday’s GI Woodward S. at Saratoga. Not a bad run for someone’s first foray into the breeding game, right? ...
LEADING THE WAY Unbeaten beyond a mile and a half and undoubtedly one of the hardest horses in training, Derrick Smith’s Leading Light (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) heads to post for today’s G1 Palmerstown House Estate Irish St Leger to do it all again against some old adversaries and fresh opposition. Like the past heavyweights of this staying...
ASCOT LIKELY FOR AUSTRALIA Triple Group 1 winner Australia (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), who suffered a shock defeat when second to The Grey Gatsby (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) in Saturday’s G1 Irish Champion S., is likely to head to either the G1 Queen Elizabeth S. over a mile or the 1 1/4 mile G1 Champion S. on QIPCO Champions...