Browse
This is the archive of all the old shared content.
A case of strangles was confirmed at Newmarket in the barn of trainer Marco Botti. Tthe horse, recently returned from the Dubai World Cup Carnival, has been moved into isolation and two stablemates who shared a flight from Dubai are being monitored at Botti’s yard at the Warren Hills training grounds. This is the first...
by J.M. Severni The Wesley Ward barn is beginning to rev up for a big spring and summer season this year, starting with Luck of the Kitten (Kitten’s Joy) in Wednesday’s rescheduled GIII Transylvania S. at Keeneland. The Ramsey homebred took Santa Anita’s Zuma Beach S. before finishing second to stabelmate Hootenanny (Quality Road) in the GI Breeders’ Cup...
Leading 1000 Guineas fancy High Celebrity (Fr) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) has been ruled out of that fillies’ Classic, for which she was 8-1, as a result of a setback suffered two weeks ago. Trainer Andre Fabre had initially expressed hope that the Ecurie Victoria Dreams colorbearer would recover in time for the May 3 contest, but he...
Saturday’s G1 Champagne S. puts a wrap on the Sydney 2-year-old Triple Crown, and while that title isn’t on the line this year–G1 Golden Slipper winner Vancouver (Aus) (Medaglia d’Oro) and G1 Sires’ Produce S. victor Pride of Dubai (Aus) (Street Cry {Ire}) are both in the spelling paddock–this lineup nonetheless boasts some intriguing juveniles...
On last year’s sprinting form, there is no doubt that Tiggy Wiggy (Ire) (Kodiac {GB})is in a league of her own lining up for Saturday’s G3 Fred Darling S., but the small matter of a seventh furlong is the troubling scenario as connections face the age-old question of the spring. Potensis Bloodstock’s flying filly was ablaze in...
Fletcher and Carolyn Gray’s I’m a Chatterbox (Munnings) tuned up for the May 1 GI Longines Kentucky Oaks with a five-furlong drill in 1:01.20 at Keeneland Sunday. Jockey Florent Geroux was aboard the filly, who galloped out six furlongs in 1:14.80. “Florent was smiling when he came back and that was good,” trainer Larry Jones said after...
Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum numerous triumphs in the British classics include two in the G1 2,000 Guineas–with the future Derby winner Nashwan in 1989 and Haafhd in 2004. A third 2,000 Guineas success must now be a possibility after two of his colts dominated the G3 Greenham S., a seven-furlong race which has been won...
Ten countries are represented among the 388 entries received for the eight Group 1 races at Royal Ascot, including California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit), who has been entered in the G1 Prince of Wales’s S. over 10 furlongs. Entries have been received from the UK (237), Ireland (75), France (46), the U.S. (11), Australia (8), Hong Kong (4),...
Last year’s triple Group 1 winner Charm Spirit (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) will shuttle to Windsor Park Stud in New Zealand this year and stand for NZ$25,000. The 4-year-old is currently standing his first season at Tweenhills in Britain. Raced by Sheikh Abdulla bin Khalifa Al Thani and trained by Freddy Head, Charm Spirit won three Group...
OBS SPRING CONTINUES TO POST GAINS by Jessica Martini & J.M. Severni With a pair of juveniles sharing top billing of $700,000, the Ocala Thoroughbred Breeders’ Sales Company’s Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training continued to post increases over last year’s record-setting auction with its third session in Ocala Thursday. Through three sessions of the...
Stonestreet Stables and WinStar Farm’s Carpe Diem (Giant’s Causeway) worked a half-mile in :48.60 at Keeneland under regular rider John Velazquez in his final move before the May 2 GI Kentucky Derby. It was the second fastest work of 63 at the distance. The ‘TDN Rising Star’ was clocked in splits of :13, :25 and :48.60 with gallop out...
Trainer Larry Jones sent his two GI Kentucky Oaks hopefuls out to work Sunday at Churchill Downs, with Grayson Farm’s I’m a Chatterbox (Munnings) going five furlongs in 1:01 and Brereton Jones’s Lovely Maria (Majesticperfection) covering the same distance in :59.60. “They both did well,” Jones said. “Both jockeys came back grinning.” I’m a Chatterbox, ridden by regular jockey...