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GI Besilu Stable’s second place finisher Upstart (Flatter) was doing well back at the Rick Violette barn Sunday morning. “He’s a little tired, but otherwise he’s OK,” the trainer said of the Ralph Evans’s colorbearer. “The horses ran lights out and the jockeys did their jobs,” Violette said of the stretch run between his charge and the...
by Ben Massam With three sophomore prospects slated to run in three different Grade I events at three different racetracks Saturday, owner Adam Wachtel has a busy weekend of race-watching ahead. The owner’s schedule became even more complex as of Tuesday morning, when Wachtel and partners resolved to redirect 3-year-old prospect Tiz Shea D (Tiznow) from an...
Arrowfield Stud has disclosed the 2015 service fees for its 10 resident stallions. Multiple Champion sire Redoute’s Choice (Aus) (Danehill) remains available at A$110,000, unchanged from last year. His son Snitzel (Aus), who enjoyed a tremendous 2014/15 season on the track and at the sales with two Group 1 winners in Sweet Idea (Aus) and Wandjina (Aus) as...
Off the mark on debut over 10 furlong at Saint-Cloud Mar. 10, Queen’s Jewel (Pivotal {GB}) added further ammunition to Freddy Head’s Classic assault in 2015 with a strong performance in this stepping stone to the G1 Prix de Diane. Having registered a comfortable debut win over the subsequent scorer Taniya (Fr) (High Chaparral {Ire}), the chestnut...
With none of today’s protagonists for Newmarket’s G3 Novae Bloodstock Insurance Craven S. quoted at less than 14-1 in the ante-post lists for the upcoming G1 2000 Guineas, it is fair to say that the latest renewal of this time-honored trial is lacking some gravity. Nonetheless, with the mile Classic looking at present to be...
While it would have been virtually unheard of just a few years ago for a horse of Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg})’s caliber to make an appearance at Charles Town, a monster $1.5-million purse for this evening’s GII Charles Town Classic S. lures the co-top-rated horse in the world to West Virginia. If not for an unfortunate...
Ralph Evan’s GI Kentucky Derby contender Upstart (Flatter) proved emphatically that he is no worse for wear after spiking a fever last week, returning to the work tab at Palm Meadows Friday to post a bullet four-furlong breeze in :47.40 (1/6). The GII Holy Bull S. winner and GI Florida Derby runner-up, who missed a breeze last...
by Jessica Martini The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training begins its four-day run Tuesday morning in Ocala with the first of 1,203 catalogued lots scheduled to go through the sale’s ring at 10:30 a.m. The Spring sale has been steadily growing in strength each year, with the sale average, just...
The DBS Breeze Up Sale will get underway Wednesday with 181 juveniles set to breeze over Doncaster Racecourse before they go through the ring Thursday. Numbers at the sale remain similar to last year’s catalogue which featured 182 juveniles, a 25% increase from 2013. Last year’s sale graduates include Italian Highweight and G2 Gran Criterium...
Trainer Art Sherman is expected to travel to Newmarket next week to check in on his dual Classic winner and Horse of the Year California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit), according to trainer Rae Guest, who is currently housing the 4-year-old. California Chrome’s chief European target is the 10-furlong G1 Prince of Wales’s S. at Royal Ascot in June,...
With the French raider Grey Lion (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) now absent, the latest renewal of the G3 Sandown Classic Trial has been robbed of some excitement even allowing for the presence of last year’s G3 Autumn S. winner Commemorative (GB) (Zamindar). Khalid Abdullah’s strong-galloping chestnut found the Santa Anita circuit too sharp when seventh in the GI...
Every time I see another convert to WHOA, whose goals I totally support, my hand goes up and I want to ask the question: Why don’t the owners who pay the bills tell the trainers, `enough is enough?’ I am always pleased to read when another supporter joins WHOA (Water Hay Oats Alliance). I greatly...