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Racing. It’s a numbers game. Take the impending retirement of one of British and Irish jumps racing’s biggest heroes, A P McCoy: “More than 4,300 wins,” “About to claim his 20th straight championship,” “Winner of 289 races in the 2000/2001 season,” the stories blared. These are the numerical dimensions of McCoy’s greatness, the accumulation of...
I don’t think anyone has missed it. On an almost monthly basis there seems to be some sort of fight about signal fees. A signal fee–the amount a home track charges others for showing their races–is negotiated between entities. Currently the Monarch group of companies are fighting with the mid-Atlantic tracks about these fees, and...
By Kelsey Riley As Australia’s feature juvenile contests–the G1 Blue Diamond S. Feb. 28 and the G1 Golden Slipper Mar. 21–draw ever closer, the country’s most precocious 2-year-olds are hitting the tracks to put the finishing touches on their preparations. This group includes an almost astonishing brigade from Godolphin and trainer John O’Shea, which are...
In response to Dean Tower’s Op/Ed, which ran in Friday’s edition of the TDN: Dean Towers makes some interesting points in his Op/Ed on the percentage splits between the host tracks and the OTB’s ADW’s and the other betting formats. Simply put I believe his point is that betting formats that provide a good and attractive...
Centennial Farms’s Wicked Strong (Hard Spun), winner of the 2014 GI Twinspires.com Wood Memorial and narrow runner-up in the GI Travers S., is targeting the GII Gulfstream Park H. Mar. 7 for his return. He clipped heels and lost rider Rajiv Maragh when last seen in the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park Sept. 27....
By Emma Berry There are some days when it’s tough being a racing and bloodstock journalist. Today is not one of them. If fans of Thoroughbred racing don’t know much about the HH The Emir International Equestrian Sword Festival taking place in Qatar this week then they soon will. The St Regis Hotel in Doha...
By Emma Berry All over Doha, there is a sense of big things to come. Vast buildings are flanked by works in progress that will eventually become bigger buildings still as more and more of the surrounding desert is tamed and turned into towers. By the time thousands of football fans descend on Qatar for...
A deal has been reached between officials from Sterling Suffolk Racecourse LLC and the New England affiliate of the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association (HBPA) for horsemen to lease Suffolk Downs in East Boston, Massachusetts, allowing live racing to continue for at least the next two seasons. The deal is subject to the passage of...
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s President Tom Ventura recently sat down for a Q&A session with the TDN’s Steve Sherack to discuss the upcoming new-look OBS March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. The two-day auction–to be held at 11 a.m. Mar. 17 and 18–has expanded its format for 2015 with a total of 610 juveniles catalogued...
A vast development project over Saint-Cloud racecourse has been the subject of much talk in the French racing industry this week, after MP Patrick Devedjian tweeted that Housing Minister Sylvia Pinel was planning to build 6,000 social housings in lieu of the track, located on the outskirts of Paris. Neither France Galop, which owns the...
by Dean A. Hoffman Local business leaders have teamed up with the University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program in an effort to provide fan education and customer service to turn around a struggling racetrack…and it’s working. Cats must be jealous of Rillito Park. That’s because cats only have nine lives and Rillito Park, the...
Last month’s G1 Oakleigh Plate winner Shamal Wind (Aus) (Dubawi {Ire}) will not be seen again during the Australian autumn and will instead prepare for a tilt at the G1 King’s Stand S. at Royal Ascot in June, trainer Robert Smerdon told Sky Sports Radio. The 5-year-old, campaigned by Love Racing, was winning her first Group 1...