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Mike de Kock, who has trained the winner of the last three renewals of the G2 Al Rashidiya S. and holds a total tally of six wins in the 1800-meter contest, is set to saddle exactly half the field in the 2015 edition, following the late withdrawal of Salem bin Ghadayer’s Army Bulletin (Ire) (Invincible...
Jockey Roman Chapa has posted a $10,000 surety bond with Harris County District Court in Texas and will be arraigned Feb. 6 on felony charges of “unlawful influence on racing” in conjunction with his alleged use of an electrical device at Sam Houston Race Park Jan. 17. It was unclear from the court filings whether...
The 2013 G1 Japanese Derby winner and G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe fourth Kizuna (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) is expected to make his long-awaited return in Sunday’s G2 Kyoto Kinen. The 5-year-old hasn’t been seen since May, when he ran a disappointing fourth in the G1 Tenno Sho and was later discovered to have suffered a...
A dozen 4-year-olds face the starter for today’s Hong Kong Classic Cup, the final restricted prep race for the HK$18 million (US$2.32 million) Hong Kong Derby in four weeks’ time. Beauty Only (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) knocked out a Class 2 handicap going a mile Nov. 9, but faltered to be 11th as the favorite...
Champion Turf and Older Horse Main Sequence (Aldebaran) breezed four furlongs in :50 at Palm Meadows Training Center Monday in preparation for his seasonal debut in Gulfstream’s GII Mac Diarmida S. Saturday. He worked in company with Ring Weekend (Tapit), who is slated to run in Saturday’s GII Canadian Turf S. “He had a good work last week and...
by Bill Finley, special to epsn.com New York winter racing was never a good idea. A racing franchise that had always stood for unparalleled excellence in the industry sullied its image and brand in 1975 when it began winter racing, which amounts to bad horses running for good money in dismal conditions. But this is...
Steve Sherack & Brian DiDonato will make $100 win/place bets on 20 Kentucky Derby preps. The handicapper with the highest total at the end wins. (To sign up for the BetAmerica sign-up bonus, click here). SS: GII Fountain of Youth S. – With a stallion’s pedigree to boot, the streaking Gorgeous Bird has the potential to make some noise on the Triple...
A field of nine–four males and five females–each owned by an entity of the China Horse Club, is set to go to the post for today’s CECF Singapore Cup, at a shade over S$3 million the richest race to ever be contested in the country. The G1 Singapore Airlines International Cup carries prize money of...
After five days dedicated to shows of pure-bred Arabian horses, the focus at H.H. The Emir 24th International Equestrian Sword Festival turns to horse racing on Tuesday. At a press conference held in Doha Monday, Qatar Racing & Equestrian Club General Manager Sami Jassim Al Boenain welcomed local and international media and said, “We have...
King of Kings (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells–Zummerudd {GB}, by Habitat), who provided trainer Aidan O’Brien with his first British Classic victory in the 1998 G1 2000 Guineas, has died at age 20 of heart failure in South Africa, according to Racing Post. Raced by Sue Magnier, King of Kings was beaten just once in five juvenile outings,...
Mornington trainer Mark Riley, already facing a three-year suspension for administering Gold For Kev (Aus) (Desert Sun {GB}) with TCO2 (bicarbonate) prior to a race in July last year, received confirmation yesterday by Racing Victoria stewards that another of his charges had returned a positive sample, this time to the anti-inflammatory Meloxicam. The urine swab was...
On what was his first start in group company and first attempt over a trip longer than 2000 meters, the Mike de Kock-trained Almoonqith (Dynaformer), registered the final leg of a four-timer for owner Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum and jockey Paul Hanagan at Meydan Saturday. The 5-year-old was significantly stepping up in trip in the...