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Horse of the Year and GI Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Zenyatta (Street Cry {Ire}) will be bred to War Front (Danzig) in 2015. The 10-year-old resides at Lane’s End Farm and was not bred this season.  “[Zenyatta] is doing very well,” said Moss. “We didn’t breed her this year because she had gotten very heavy. She’s lost...

by T.D. Thornton  Even under normal circumstances, preparing a precocious young colt for his career debut can be as difficult as it is rewarding.  But when a pair of impeccably bred 2-year-olds happen to be the progeny of the 21st Century’s two most prolific racemares to date, you might as well be training under a...

The Jockey Club Tour on FOX Sports 1 will kick off its 2015 season with the GI Donn H. from Gulfstream Park and the GII San Antonio S. from Santa Anita Park Saturday, Feb. 7, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. EST, it was announced yesterday.  The San Antonio is expected to include 2014 GI Kentucky Derby and...

Despite a minor foot issue, Kaleem Shah’s GI Breeders’ Cup Classic victor Bayern (Offlee Wild) could still make the GII San Antonio S. in Arcadia Feb. 7.  “He had an abcess in his hind foot and the rain sort of set me back a little bit,” trainer Bob Baffert told the TDN. “I have been able to...

Trainer Danny O’Brien, who along with fellow Victoria, Australia-based conditioners Peter Moody and Mark Kavanagh was revealed this week to have had horses in his care test over the permitted threshold for cobalt, was critical of the threshold set for the substance–200 micrograms per liter of urine–by Racing Victoria last April when speaking on SEN...

by Mike Kane  Sal Sinatra isn’t exactly easing into his new position as the vice-president and general manager of the Maryland Jockey Club. Now in his seventh week on the job, Sinatra, 50, has already made some changes and has others ready to be teed up. He is looking forward to helping shape the future...

Sheikh Mohammed Khaleel Ahmed’s Anaerobio (Arg) (Catcher In the Rye {Ire}) will face nine others as he looks to successfully defend his title in the G2 Al Fahidi Fort S., the featured event on the third meeting of the Dubai International Racing Carnival tonight at Meydan.  The 7-year-old entire has made half of his 26 career starts...

by Liesl King  Records were shattered during the first session of the Cape Premier Yearling Sale held by the Cape Thoroughbred Sales Company (CTS) in the Cape Town International Convention Centre, as more than 60% of last year’s total aggregate was achieved and a new record price of R5.2 million (US$456,162) was paid for lot 48,...

  Alboran Sea earned her second Group 1 victory and her trainer Mike de Kock’s milestone 100th when she captured the Betting World Cape Flying Championship at Kenilworth Saturday. One of only two 3-year-olds fillies in the field, the other being Carry On Alice (SAf), the favorite was away alertly after a delayed start and...

New Zealand Bloodstock’s six-day yearling sale festival kicked off yesterday at Karaka with the first session of the two-day Premier sale. Figures dipped slightly but largely held steady from 12 months ago. A total of 153 lots changed for NZ$22,317,500, while last year during this session 157 were sold for NZ$23,761,500. The buyback rate was...

Leading Sydney-based jockey James McDonald’s relations with father-and-sons training team Hawkes Racing have taken a turn for the worse following the jockey’s decision to remain free-lance and lack of communication around it. In an interview to RSN Radio, McDonald confirmed, “I am keen to go freelance but I would definitely love to continue riding for...

Thunder Gulch (Gulch–Line of Thunder, by Storm Bird), the champion 3-year-old of 1995 and sire of 2001 Horse of the Year Point Given, has been pensioned from stud duties at Ashford Stud in Versailles, Kentucky, at the age of 23.  Bred by Peter Brant, the chestnut was a $40,000 Keeneland July acquisition by Ken Ellenberg and...