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Impressive GII Fasig-Tipton Swale S. winner Ready for Rye (City Zip) and West Coast invader Lord Nelson (Pulpit) figure to vie for favoritism in Saturday’s GIII Bay Shore S. at Aqueduct. Ready for Rye, second behind subsequent GIII Hutcheson S. winner Barbados (Speightstown) as the even-money favorite in Gulfstream’s Spectacular Bid S. Jan. 3, broke through with a sensational...
All eyes will be on GISW Condo Commando (Tiz Wonderful) in Saturday’s GII Gazelle S. at the Big A. The daughter of 2004 GII Black-Eyed Susan S. heroine Yearly Report (General Meeting) returned from the bench with a sharp win in the Busher S. over the inner track Feb. 21. The Michael Dubb, Bethlehem Stables and Elkstone...
The Big Beast (Yes It’s True), winner of last summer’s GI King’s Bishop S. at Saratoga, gets the nod as the 5-2 morning-line favorite in Saturday’s GI Carter H. at the Big A. The ‘TDN Rising Star,’ owned by Alex and JoAnn Lieblong, kicked off his 4-year-old campaign with a measured allowance tally going six furlongs at Oaklawn...
Jockey Roman Chapa has until 5:00 p.m. Thursday to either pay a $25,000 penalty or appeal both that fine and a 5-year suspension imposed by the Sam Houston Race Park stewards, who ruled Monday that Chapa “did carry an electrical shocking device” while riding Quiet Acceleration (Silent Picture) to victory in a Texas-bred stakes race...
by Justina Severni The Fasig-Tipton Florida 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale will be held today at Gulfstream Park, with bidding on the first of 175 catalogued hips scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. in the track’s walking ring. The boutique auction, held at Calder for a number of years, spent two years at Palm Meadows and...
Session one of the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale concluded with records for the sixth consecutive year in all relevant statistical categories. With a clearance rate of 82%, the cumulative average jumped by 16.4% to A$97,003, while the median grew by 23.1% to a record A$80,000. Total turnover was A$44,507,500, a 19% improvement over 2014. ...
Originally expected to run in Aqueduct’s GIII Gotham S. Saturday, Stonestreet Stables’s Ocean Knight (Curlin) will instead remain in Florida to contest the GII Tampa Bay Derby on the same day. “Barbara Banke and her team decided coming back to Tampa Bay Downs was the right thing to do, and I’m happy with the decision,” said trainer...
By Steve Sherack After getting the money in the 2012 GII Tampa Bay Derby with Prospective (Malibu Moon), it should be safe to say that trainer Mark Casse and owner John Oxley may be still feeling somewhat, ahem, ‘over the moon’ heading into Saturday’s renewal. The duo will be well-represented once again by a pair...
The International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) has released its list of the top 100 Group/Grade I races of 2014, and for the third consecutive season, the top-rated event was York’s G1 Juddmonte International S. The annual list of ratings is based on an average of the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings ratings for the...
Twenty commercial breeding farms from across the country have signed on to support the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA) by donating a portion of their stud fees to support Thoroughbred aftercare in 2015. The contributing farms are: Adena Springs, Airdrie Stud, Castleton Lyons, Claiborne, Darby Dan, Darley America, Gainesway Farm, Hill ‘n’ Dale, Lane’s End, Millennium...
By T.D. Thornton Now that the United States has moved to normalize relations with Cuba, how long will it be until “normal” means a return to tourism, and inevitably, legalized gambling backed by American interests? I. Nelson Rose, a California attorney who specializes in international gambling law, told the TDN that based upon an academic...
With Dubai World Cup night and its $29 million in prize money across eight races for Thoroughbreds less than a month away, Meydan will host the Super Saturday program this coming weekend, highlighted by course-and-distance preps for seven of those events. Despite a subpar effort in his first start over the newly installed dirt track,...