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Gamblers seem unlikely to get rich in Saturday’s GII Bed O’ Roses H. at Belmont Park, as the top three horses look to have a corner on the market. La Verdad (Yes It’s True) is the field’s most prolific graded stakes winner with three to her credit and can become racing’s newest millionaire with a third-place...
by James Willoughby IT IS now common for riders in the best races in Britain to systematically exploit the leniency in the interference rules to gain a competitive edge. From Jan. 1, 2006 to June 20 this year, more than 430,000 runners appeared in British Flat races not confined to maidens. The rate at which they...
I first walked on the backside of Sunland Park Racetrack when I was 15 years old in 1963 and fell under the spell of horse racing. My dream was to be a racehorse trainer. For the next 16 years, the racetrack was my only vocation. I would go to tracks all over the country, live...
by Sue Finley The Arqana August sales catalogue has just been published, and for those of you who have looked through it, decided it’s a can’t-miss, but haven’t made travel plans because France intimidates you, here’s everything you need to know–an itinerary for your 96 hours (give or take) in Deauville. Friday, August 14 10...
Trainer Chad Brown holds a strong hand for both the GI Belmont Derby and GI Belmont Oaks July 4 and all five of his contenders worked Saturday at Belmont. Leading the quintet was the undefeated Lady Eli (Divine Park), who is likely to be the favorite to give Brown his second renewal of the Belmont Oaks which...
BLACK CAVIAR, TREVE RATED WORLD’S BEST Australian sprinting sensation Black Caviar (Aus) (Bel Esprit {Aus}) and France’s G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe heroine Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) share top billing on the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities’ Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings of 2013 at a mark of 130. The now-retired Black Caviar achieved that rating twice last...
KITTEN’S JOY S., $100,000, GPX, 1-19, 3yo, 1 1/16mT, 1:42 1/5, fm. 1–STORMING INTI, 120, c, 3, by Stormy Atlantic 1st Dam: Tarfaya, by Pulpit 2nd Dam: Layounne, by Mt. Livermore 3rd Dam: La Affirmed, by Affirmed ($100,000 yrl ’12 KEESEP). O-Santa Rosa Racing Stables; B-Brushwood Stable (PA); T-Chad C Brown; J-Alan Garcia. $60,000. Lifetime Record:...
New trainer Michael McCarthy saddles Norastone (Kafwain) in today’s California Cup Oaks. The undefeated bay represents the first-ever runner for his barn. He went out on his own last month, after spending 11 years under Pletcher’s tutelage, including five in the Golden State. Several of McCarthy’s years working for Pletcher saw him based at Belmont...
BREAKTHROUGH YEAR by Bill Oppenheim I know, there are plenty of people who say a ‘good gamble’ is an oxymoron, but when you think about the level of financial gambling involved in sire selection, there has to be some relativity included in the equation. One of the best applications of the APEX figures is to...
Winchell Thoroughbreds’ homebred Tapiture (Tapit), who broke his maiden last time out in the Nov. 30 GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. at Churchill Downs, kicked off his sophomore debut with a 4 1/4-length triumph over even-money favorite Strong Mandate (Tiznow) in the GIII Southwest S. at Oaklawn Monday. Sent off at 3-1, Tapiture broke from the inside in the...
QATAR FESTIVAL By Michele MacDonald No matter what the hankering–jewelry, clothes, spices, lamps, pots and pans, antiques (and/or copies thereof) and even parrots–it can be fulfilled with twists of historical flair and Arabian hospitality in Doha’s Souq Waqif. Tucked away at the feet of some of Doha’s modern buildings, the souq has been...
Officials at Darley have announced that the operation has acquired a majority interest in leading sophomore Cairo Prince (Pioneerof the Nile–Holy Bubbette, by Holy Bull), winner of the GII Holy Bull S. in his 2014 debut Jan. 25. The gray colt will race in the colors of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum’s Godolphin Stable...