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Team Valor has revealed that Hong Kong-based ace Joao Moreira will partner Euro Charline (GB) (Myboycharlie {Ire}) in the G1 Dubai Turf. The Marco Botti trainee was last seen under Ryan Moore when winning the G1 Beverly D S., yet the British hoop is likely to be requested on board Kevin Ryan’s dual Group 1 winner The...

As we have mentioned before, once a horse shows up as an A Runner on one of our annual lists it goes into a separate file, which we call ‘Unique’ A Runners, where they are only counted once, whereas in the rolling 7-year APEX files, a horse is counted once every year it reaches the...

The catalogue for Arqana’s Breeze-Up Sale, set for May 9 and boasting 134 2-year-olds, is now online. The sale that produced last year’s G1 Prix du Jockey Club and G1 Irish Champion S. winner The Grey Gatsby (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) and this year’s GI Gulfstream Turf H. victor Mshawish (Medaglia d’Oro) boasts some attractive pedigrees,...

Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s International Star (Fusaichi Pegasus) seeks his third-straight victory and looks to enter the GI Kentucky Derby the right way in Saturday’s $750,000 GII Louisiana Derby. The versatile Mike Maker pupil was second in Saratoga’s grassy GII With Anticipation S. last August, and annexed the GIII Grey S. on Woodbine Polytrack in October. He...

Despite only attracting nine runners, the Dubai Sheema Classic looks an extremely competitive contest, with Group/Grade 1 winners in the USA, Japan, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland and France set to lock horns. A pair of Classic-winning Japanese raiders will bid to present the Land of the Rising Sun with a fourth victory, following in the...

Lady Lara, third as a maiden in the G2 May Hill S. at Doncaster in September 2013 for trainer Timothy Jarvis, graduated in her final juvenile appearance at Newbury a week later. Well-beaten in 13th behind Miss France (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) in last year’s G1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas, the Sangster Family runner hit the board...

Wachtel Stable, Brous Stable LLC and Meadowland Thoroughbreds’ Lassofthemohicans (Indian Charlie) ships in from Florida Tuesday ahead of a tilt at Saturday’s GI Central Bank Ashland S. at Keeneland. The dark bay filly was second behind Birdatthewire (Summer Bird) in the Jan. 24 GII Forward Gal S. and is looking to rebound from a fifth-place effort in...

The 278-lot Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up and Horses in Training Sale catalogue is now available online. Divided between 187 breeze up 2-year-olds, 87 horses in training and a small dispersal of four broodmares from the late Stefan Friborg, the two-day sale is Apr. 30 to May 1. The 2-year-olds breeze over the Rowley Mile Racecourse...

Originally scheduled as Keeneland’s opening day feature Apr. 3, the GIII Transylvania S. will instead highlight Wednesday’s card after lightning and heavy rains forced the Lexington oval to cancel the last half of their opening day card. Though the field has gone from 13 to seven in the interim, the 1 1/16-mile test for sophomore...

GIII Coolmore Lexington S. winner Divining Rod (Tapit) is being aimed toward a start in the GI Preakness S. May 16. “Yes, I’m thinking of the Preakness,” trainer Arnaud Delacour said. “The timing seems right. It’s five weeks after the Lexington. We had the Preakness in mind before we entered in the Lexington, hoping he would step...

By Emma Berry  Twelve months have passed, but the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-up Sale headline looks remarkably similar to last year, with a Mocklershill-consigned son of War Front (lot 113) selling to the Coolmore team to head proceedings. The top price of 850,000gns was slightly more modest than last year’s 1.15 million gns sales-topper, but it...

Trainer Bob Baffert’s GI Santa Anita Derby one-two of ‘TDN Rising Stars’ Dortmund (Big Brown) and One Lucky Dane (Lookin at Lucky) both worked in Arcadia Saturday in anticipation of the GI Kentucky Derby, but only the former will be heading to Churchill.  Kaleem Shah’s undefeated Dortmund, who also boasts wins in the GI Los Alamitos Futurity, GIII Robert B....