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TOUGH COMPANY Sometimes, things just crystallize right before your eyes: the light goes on. Often this unshakeable conviction unravels at the eighth pole, but occasionally inspiration strikes when you’re trying to divine the secrets of the Thoroughbred marketplace. For the 2015 breeding season in Kentucky, nine stallions at four farms are standing for the same...
Bobby Flay’s Dame Dorothy (Bernardini) takes a perfect four-for-four record into Saturday’s GIII Comely S. at Aqueduct. The morning-line favorite in the nine-furlong affair, Dame Dorothy was tabbed a J “TDN Rising Star” J after her debut victory going seven furlongs over the Aqueduct oval a year ago. She romped by 12 lengths in an...
Mshawish kicked off his career in France with Mikel Delzangles, finishing second in a Group 3 and annexing a listed stakes race as a sophomore. Taken to Meydan for the Dubai World Cup Carnival early this year, the dark bay was second in the G2 Al Fahidi Fort S. at seven panels in January before...
TDN Rising Star Dortmund (Big Brown) can complete a fairy tale season for owner Kaleem Shah and is expected to be a prohibitive favorite in a short field of five juvenile males in Saturday’s GI Los Alamitos Futurity, being contested for the first time at the Orange County oval after 33 renewals at the now-shuttered Hollywood Park...
Travis Stone has been named Churchill Downs’s new track announcer, taking over for Larry Collmus starting at the beginning of the Louisville oval’s Spring Meet beginning Apr. 25. Stone, 30, called the races at Monmouth Park’s 2014 meet and worked as the back-up announcer for the New York Racing Association this winter. Collmus, who will...
Sue Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith’s TDN Rising Star Taris (Flatter) made headlines when storming away from overmatched rivals to take Keeneland’s GII Lexus Raven Run S. by a pole Oct. 18 and then again 16 days later when selling for $2.35 million at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale. She’ll try to generate more bold type in Friday’s...
LA BREA S.-GI, $301,000, SAX, 12-26, 3yo, f, 7f, 1:22 2/5, ft. 1–#@SAM’S SISTER, 118, f, 3, by Brother Derek 1st Dam: Kittery Point (SP), by Include 2nd Dam: Lucy Sims, by Northjet (Ire) 3rd Dam: Join the Waves, by Sailor ($125,000 yrl ’12 KEESEP). O-Mark Dedomenico LLC, Jerry Hollendorfer & George Todaro; B-Brereton C Jones...
By Lucas Marquardt and Brian DiDonato Bolstered by the $2.2-million sale of the 6-year-old Galileo (Ire) mare Up (Ire) and the $800,000 realized by her yearling War Front filly, the second session of Keeneland’s January Horses of All Ages Sale saw relatively steady trade. A total of 248 head sold yesterday for a combined $15,191,200. The average...
Gary Barber’s Ontario native Lexie Lou (Sligo Bay {Ire}) seeks her second U.S. score and first ever on the dirt in today’s GII La Canada S. going 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita. Defeating the boys in the Queens Plate going 1 1/4 miles over the Woodbine synthetic July 6, the Mark Casse pupil followed up with...
By Mike Kane A federal appeals court opinion this week that upholds the American Quarter Horse Association’s ban on registering cloned horses strengthens Thoroughbred racing’s already strict breeding guidelines, James Gagliano, the president and chief operating officer of The Jockey Club, said. While Quarter Horses and Standardbreds may be bred using artificial insemination, The Jockey...
STARLET S.-GI, $350,500, LRC, 12-13, 2yo, f, 1 1/16m, 1:42, ft. 1–TAKE CHARGE BRANDI, 120, f, 2, by Giant’s Causeway 1st Dam: Charming, by Seeking the Gold 2nd Dam: Take Charge Lady, by Dehere 3rd Dam: Felicita, by Rubiano ($435,000 yrl ’13 KEESEP). O-Willis D Horton; B-Charming Syndicate (KY); T-D Wayne Lukas; J-Victor Espinoza. $210,000. Lifetime...
by Liesl King Now a familiar landmark on the South African Sales calendar, the Cape Premier Yearling Sale once again has a bumper catalogue oozing quality, with the 200 lots on offer in the Cape Town International Convention Centre today and tomorrow representing 31 local and three international stallions. The first viewing day is usually...