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Hall of Fame trainer, owner and Breeders’ Cup founding director John Nerud has become the 1000th member of the Water Hay Oats Alliance (WHOA), which supports the passage of federal legislation to prohibit the use of performance-enhancing drugs in horse racing. “I am 102 years old and have been training horses since 1937,” Nerud said...
Daredevil (More Than Ready)–an impressive winner over Upstart (Flatter) in last term’s GI Champagne S. in the Belmont Park slop Oct. 4–kicks off his sophomore campaign in Saturday’s seven-furlong GII Fasig-Tipton Swale S. at Gulfstream Park. The chestnut was last seen finishing last of 11 in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita Nov. 1....
Reigning Horse of the Year Designs on Rome (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) and Military Attack (Ire) (Oratorio {Ire}), who carried that title in the previous season, square off again in Sunday’s Citibank Hong Kong Gold Cup, elevated to international Group 1 status for the first time. Designs on Rome has slowly worked his way into peak fitness for...
by Emma Berry To an extent, National Hunt racing is now not too far removed from the Flat in that the big stables dominate and wealthy owners are so powerfully represented that it is hard for the smaller operators to figure at major events. While there was plenty of cheer at the Cheltenham Festival for...
By Michele MacDonald The largest group of American challengers since Meydan Racecourse opened in 2010 is scheduled to fly to Dubai Mar. 17 to prepare for the 20th anniversary of the Dubai World Cup program, which will include nine races worth a total of $30 million. Led by Horse of the Year California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) and...
It was not very many years ago that winter meant a complete shutdown of flat racing in Britain and Ireland, with only Cagnes-sur-Mer keeping the doors open in France. When that was the case, we could forget about tracking European second-crop sires, whose first foals were about to begin racing at three, until pretty much...
By T.D. Thornton—When the topic of expanding drug testing comes up, one common lament within the United States racing industry is that there isn’t enough money available to broaden existing protocols. Yet in 2014, the first year that The Jockey Club budgeted $250,000 to supplement out-of-competition (OOC) testing for horses nominated to graded...
Not For Love (Mr. Prospector–Dance Number, by Northern Dancer), Maryland’s leading sire for the last 12 years, has been pensioned. The 25-year-old stallion stood his entire career at Northview Stallion Station. “Not For Love will set the bar in Maryland for all stallions standing there in the future,” said Northview owner Richard Golden. “We tried to...
Team Valor has revealed that Hong Kong-based ace Joao Moreira will partner Euro Charline (GB) (Myboycharlie {Ire}) in the G1 Dubai Turf. The Marco Botti trainee was last seen under Ryan Moore when winning the G1 Beverly D S., yet the British hoop is likely to be requested on board Kevin Ryan’s dual Group 1 winner The...
As we have mentioned before, once a horse shows up as an A Runner on one of our annual lists it goes into a separate file, which we call ‘Unique’ A Runners, where they are only counted once, whereas in the rolling 7-year APEX files, a horse is counted once every year it reaches the...
The catalogue for Arqana’s Breeze-Up Sale, set for May 9 and boasting 134 2-year-olds, is now online. The sale that produced last year’s G1 Prix du Jockey Club and G1 Irish Champion S. winner The Grey Gatsby (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) and this year’s GI Gulfstream Turf H. victor Mshawish (Medaglia d’Oro) boasts some attractive pedigrees,...
Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s International Star (Fusaichi Pegasus) seeks his third-straight victory and looks to enter the GI Kentucky Derby the right way in Saturday’s $750,000 GII Louisiana Derby. The versatile Mike Maker pupil was second in Saratoga’s grassy GII With Anticipation S. last August, and annexed the GIII Grey S. on Woodbine Polytrack in October. He...