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Last week I inveigled TDN International Editor Kelsey Riley into offering her “columnist’s choice” picks for success among four crops of unproven North American stallions with first foals 2013-2016, which we presented as well as my own. This week–special treat– we have expanded our scope even further by asking TDN’s other columnist, Andrew Caulfield, to...
by Jessica Martini John Brocklebank, who has catalogued 11 horses to the Barretts Selected 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, is anxious to get the juvenile sales season started. “I can hardly wait for breeze show day,” Brocklebank said ahead of the Barretts preview show scheduled for Friday in Pomona. “I’m excited because of the group of...
South African Horse of the Year and Triple Crown winner Horse Chestnut (SAf) (Fort Wood–London Wall {SAf}, by Col. Pickering {SAf}) died overnight Feb. 20 at Drakenstein Stud at the age of 19 due to heart failure. Racing as a homebred for Harry and Bridgit Oppenheimer with trainer Mike de Kock, Horse Chestnut is considered by many...
by Jessica Martini When hip 116 became the third horse to turn in the one-furlong bullet time of :9 4/5 during Friday’s under-tack preview of the Barretts Selected 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, the speedy move wasn’t a surprise to consignor Kim McCarthy. “She had previously breezed really well,” McCarthy revealed Saturday morning. “So I was, I don’t...
by Ben Massam The Kentucky Thoroughbred Breeders’ Incentive Fund (KTBIF), available to owners who board mares in Kentucky for their entire gestation period, recently announced that in 2014, over $10 million in awards were distributed to state-bred runners competing in more than 4,000 eligible races worldwide. For the second straight season, Ken and Sarah Ramsey...
Fontiton (Aus) (Turffontein {Aus}) has yet to put a foot wrong in her short career, and she faces her stiffest test yet in tomorrow’s A$1 million G1 Blue Diamond S., Australia’s second-richest juvenile contest. Fontiton cost Matchem Racing A$110,000 at last year’s Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, and that figure looks like a bargain now that the...
Night Prowler (Giant’s Causeway), winner of the GIII Dania Beach S. Jan. 3 and close third-place finisher in the Pulpit S. Nov. 29, gets the slight nod as the 5-2 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s GIII Palm Beach S. at Gulfstream. The Paul Pompa Jr. homebred is the first foal out of two-time graded stakes winner Mary’s...
The Roydon Bergerson-trained Savaria (NZ) (Savabeel {Aus}) notched her third win of 2015 and second at Group level when sustaining favouritism to land the G1 New Zealand Oaks. Jockey Hayden Tinsley had the filly settled midfield on the fence from the inside gate, over five lengths off the steady pace set by Gin Swing (NZ) (Keeper {Aus})....
Sunday, Hanshin, Japan HOCHI HAI FILLIES’ REVUE-G2, ¥97,400,000, Hanshin, 3-15, 3yo, f, 1400mT, 1:22.50, fm. 1–@#QUEENS RING (JPN), 119, f, 3, Manhattan Cafe (Jpn) 1st Dam: Aqua Ring (Jpn), by Anabaa 2nd Dam: Sea Ring (Fr), by Bering (GB) 3rd Dam: Blue River (Fr), by Riverman O-Tetsuya Yoshida; B-Shadai Farm; T-Keiji Yoshimura; J-Mirco Demuro. ¥51,330,000....
Globetrotting Group 1 winner Gordon Lord Byron (Ire) (Byron {GB}) emerged from a well-beaten seventh in the G1 Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup at Sha Tin on the weekend with a muscle injury, but trainer Tom Hogan said he is hopeful the 7-year-old gelding will have recuperated in time for Royal Ascot in June, and perhaps earlier. “He’s...
In the wake of Wednesday’s announcement that the British government would introduce a ‘Racing Right’ that would see bookmakers pay for the right to take bets on racing, British Horseracing Authority Chief Executive Nick Rust has insisted that racing will seek a “fair and reasonable return” from bookmakers under the newly proposed system. The Racing...
by James Willoughby John Gosden, 64 at the end of the month, is an outstanding trainer with an incredible transatlantic resume. He’s won the Breeders’ Cup Classic (Raven’s Pass) and the Derby at Epsom, the Arlington Million and the St Leger four times.Yet, missing from his list of accomplishments at the highest level is victory...