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Able Friend (Aus) (Shamardal), recently named the world’s co-highest rated racehorse along with Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}), heads a list of eight runners invited to the HK$14-million (US$1,805,910) G1 BMW Champions Mile to be contested at Sha Tin Racecourse Sunday, May 3. Owned by Dr. & Mrs. Cornel Li, Able Friend, an A$550,000 Inglis Easter yearling purchase,...
By Michele MacDonald Writer Andy Plattner capped a personal triple crown as a finalist for the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award by winning the top prize for his novel Offerings from a Rust Belt Jockey during a lively presentation at Castleton Lyons Farm in Lexington on April 15. “It’s so cool to be acknowledged for...
By Bill Finley, special to ESPN When was the last time a group this good lined up to start in the Kentucky Derby? Think about it. Twenty years ago? Forty years ago? Never? The usual refrain around this time of year is the current 3-year-old crop is not a strong one. It’s not that we...
Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}) will undergo a nuclear scan after being pulled up as the 3-10 favorite in Saturday’s GII Charles Town Classic. “He’s going for a scan at a facility near the track and see if they can find anything,” Dan Ward, assistant to trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, confirmed Sunday at Santa Anita. “We don’t...
By Daithi Harvey Jim McCartan will remember the 2014 breeze-up sales season fondly. The consignor, who operates from his Gaybrook Lodge Stud in County Westmeath in the midlands of Ireland, was one of the top vendors at both the Tattersalls Craven and Tattersalls Guineas Breeze- Up sales. All told, at the 2014 European breeze ups, McCartan...
Highclere Thoroughbred Racing’s Sympathy (Henrythenavigator), an eye-catching maiden winner at Leicester in October, has been ruled out of the G1 1000 Guineas and will instead prepare for later-season targets. A statement on the Highclere website read, “[Sympathy] has been in season and is still shedding her winter coat, so rather than pushing her to be ready [trainer]...
Friday’s G3 Gordon Richards S. at Sandown has been a firm favorite of Sir Michael Stoute since the early part of his career, and his record-setting seven successes have included the likes of Singspiel (Ire). Whether Saeed Suhail’s progressiveCannock Chase (Lemon Drop Kid) can measure up to that kind of standard remains to be seen, but...
By Liesl King Bloodstock South Africa’s National yearling sale ended its three-session run Friday with figures slightly down on last year, although the average and median were up marginally. The aggregate wrapped up at R126,527,500 (US$10,451,592), versus R134,615,000 last year (a decrease of 5.9%, although with 58 fewer yearlings offered). The buyback rate was up...
Arnold Zetcher’s Firing Line (Line of David) completed what trainer Simon Callaghan called an “easy” five-furlong work in 102.20 at Santa Anita Saturday under jockey Gary Stevens. It was the final GI Kentucky Derby preparation for the GIII Sunland Derby romper, who ships to Louisville Sunday. “Just what we wanted for him,” Callaghan said. “He’s shipping tomorrow–he’ll...
Conditioner Ger Lyons is planning on saddling two for the G1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile Racecourse Saturday in Cappella Sansevero (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) and Endless Drama (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}). “Both are likely to run, although Endless Drama might not make the trip if the ground ended up being on the firm side,” Lyons said....
The Honorable Sandra J. Feuerstein of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued an order staying the administrative hearing of the New York State Gaming Commission against Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott for alleged overages of therapeutic medication, Mott’s attorney Andrew Mollica announced in a press release Tuesday. ...
By Steve Sherack A racing stable and a horse with ties to New Mexico have made plenty of headlines around this time of year recently. But this isn’t another story about Mine That Bird’s shocking upset in the 2009 GI Kentucky Derby. The unbeaten 2015 GI Besilu Stables Florida Derby hero and ‘TDN Rising Star’ Materiality (Afleet...