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Fabio Branca, the retained jockey of Scuderia Effevi, faced a tough choice for Sunday’s G3 Premio Regina Elena (Italian 1000 Guineas), with his boss, Felice Villa, having two talented and unbeaten fillies in the race. Reset In Blue (Ire)(Fastnet Rock {Aus}) opened her account strolling home in her juvenile debut over 1800 meters and has won...
Trainer Aidan O’Brien will make the call “early in the week” as to whether G1 1000 Guineas favorite Found (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) lines up for the May 3 Newmarket Classic, according to Racing Post. O’Brien revealed over the weekend that a temperature earlier in the season had forced Found to progress slower than planned, but the Ballydoyle...
Now that the inaugural G1 Commonwealth Cup is looming on the horizon, it is time for the 3-year-old sprinters to show their hands in the newly promoted G3 Pavilion S. on Wednesday’s Ascot card. Designed to offer a clear path to the Royal meeting along with next month’s G2 Sandy Lane S. at Haydock, the...
by Bill Finley Everyone wants to win the Kentucky Derby, but the people who usually get there shop at Tiffany. Not Jon Jazdzewski. He goes to the Dollar Store. What does it take to buy a Derby contender these days? Sometimes as much as $1.6 million, which is what was paid for Carpe Diem at...
Ten Broeck Farm’s Sunset Glow (Exchange Rate) will look to hog the spotlight in the GIII Edgewood S. under the Twin Spires. Second in last June’s G3 Albany S. at Royal Ascot, the Wesley Warned-trained miss ran away with Del Mar’s GII Sorrento S. Aug. 6 and showed a new dimension to take the GI Del Mar...
Renewals of the G2 Betfred Dante S. rarely come as potentially informative as this one, with all the leading protagonists for Epsom bar Zawraq (Ire) (Shamardal) lining up for the leading blue riband trial on York’s Knavesmire circuit. Despite their prominent place in the winter ante-post lists for the Derby, both Ballydoyle colts John F Kennedy...
Hong Kong’s Able Friend (Aus) (Shamardal)–who bolstered his profile with a win in the G1 Champions Mile last weekend and is now set for a trip to Royal Ascot–and American champion Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg})–winner of this year’s GI Santa Anita H. and GII San Antonio H.–remained tied for the top position in the Longines World’s Best Racehorse...
By Steve Sherack Overcast skies and cool temperatures greeted the GI Preakness S. contenders as they turned in their final preparations early Friday morning. The GI Kentucky Derby top three finishers–American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile), Firing Line (Line of David) and Dortmund (Big Brown)–couldn’t be looking any better as they return on short notice for the second leg of the...
Alto Racing’s ‘TDN Rising Star’ Materiality (Afleet Alex), winner of the GI Besilu Stables Florida Derby and GI Kentucky Derby sixth-place finisher, worked Saturday in preparation for a possible next start in the GI Belmont S. Materiality, who was under consideration for a start in Saturday’s GI Xpressbet.com Preakness S., worked a half-mile in :49.03 (5/24) at...
by Jessica Martini The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, which produced its first seven-figure transaction during Monday’s session, concluded with a sale record average and median Tuesday in Timonium, Maryland. “What a great sale–it was great from beginning to end on both days,” Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sales director Paget Bennett said at the close of...
Al Shaqab Racing’s dual G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe heroine Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) is “spot on” ahead of her return to action next week. Criquette Head-Maarek’s superstar is due to make her comeback in the Group 3 Prix Corrida at Saint-Cloud. The 5-year-old mare will attempt to win a third Arc at the end of...
Dermot Weld may be entering the veteran stage of his training career, but his star is firmly in the ascendant in 2015 and he unleashes another potential luminary in Juddmonte’s unbeaten Brooch (Empire Maker) in Saturday’s G2 Lanwades Stud S. at The Curragh. Stepping up from a maiden at the Galway festival to add Killarney’s Listed Vincent...