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A total of 11 races with major implications for Breeders’ Cup weekend in five weeks’ time will be run Saturday afternoon at Belmont Park and Santa Anita Park, and some of the nation’s top 3-year-olds will face their elders in the venues’ respective preps for the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic. In the $1-milllion GI Jockey...
Just two weeks after Top Billing (Curlin) was taken off the Triple Crown trail with a cracked cannon bone, Hall of Famer Shug McGaughey lost all chance of capturing consecutive renewals of the GI Kentucky Derby when Honor Code (A.P. Indy) was put on the shelf due to a slight tear in his right hind suspensory. The...
The 2002 GI Turf Classic was won by Denon (Pleasant Colony), campaigned in partnership by Edmund Gann and the Flaxman Stable, and the latter’s Main Sequence (Aldebaran)–who will start as one of the favorites in the “Win and You’re In” event for the GI Breeders’ Cup Turf–has family ties to the winner from a dozen years ago. ...
Michael Dubb, Bethlehem Stables and Gary Aisquith’s Belle Gallantey (After Market) got loose on an easy lead and came home a commanding 8 1/4-length victress in Saturday’s GI Beldame S. at Belmont Park. Favored Stopchargingmaria(Tale of the Cat) chased the pacesetter throughout the nine furlongs and came home a distant second. The victory was the second straight graded...
Gordon Lord Byron (Ire) (Byron {GB}) left big-race pilot Wayne Lordan perfectly satisfied after he enjoyed a post-racing workout at Roscommon in his build-up to the G1 Prix de la Foret at Longchamp Sunday. The Tom Hogan-trained gelding struck Group 1 gold in the Paris showpiece in 2012 and found only Moonlight Cloud (GB) (Invincible Spirit...
My Ambivalent (Ire) (Authorized {Ire}) is facing an important 24 hours as she tries to recover from a minor setback in time for Saturday’s G1 Crown Golden Ale Caulfield Cup at Caulfield. The Roger Varian-trained mare, winner of the G2 Middleton S. at York back in May, is reported to have sustained a stone bruise to...
By Lucas Marquardt The inaugural Thoroughbred Owners Conference, hosted by OwnerView, concluded a second day of panel discussions yesterday at Keeneland. The focus of the morning-only session was horse welfare and the future of the sport. The Horse Racing Radio Network’s Mike Penna moderated a panel entitled “Care for the Thoroughbred and Foundations” that outlined...
ONCOMING FORCE With the “Power” pair of sprinters out of the way in today’s G2 Qipco British Champions Sprint S. at Ascot, some of the others in this category have an opportunity to come to the fore, and G Force (Ire) (Tamayuz {GB}) holds sway after his success in the G1 Haydock Sprint Cup. Beating the previous...
by Lucas Marquardt Brandywine Farm’s Jim and Pam Robinson are celebrating their 40th anniversary in horse racing this year. In the coming weeks, they might be celebrating a whole lot more than that. Indeed, Fasig-Tipton’s October Fall Yearling Sale, which begins a three-day stand Monday in Lexington, could kick off an exciting run for the...
by Alix Choppin The first day of Arqana’s October Yearling Sale overcame a sluggish start to return some positive results, up from last year’s buoyant session. Of the 177 lots offered, 130 horses sold for an aggregate €8,559,000, a 12% increase from 2013, and the average price was €65,838, up 15.44% from a year ago....
by Amanda Duckworth The Fasig-Tipton October Fall Yearling Sale, the last major yearling sale of the year, ended its three-day run Wednesday by setting records across the board. In all, 837 horses traded hands in Lexington, leading to an overall gross of $30,006,200. That was a 7.5% increase over last year’s total of $27,908,000, when...
Trainers Chad Brown and Todd Pletcher who, unsurprisingly rank among the top conditioners in wins at Belmont’s closing fall meet, will look to end things on a high in today’s GIII Turnback the Alarm H. Brown will saddle Alpha Delta Stables’s Endless Chatter (First Samurai) and Hidden Brook Farm’s Catch My Drift (Pioneerof the Nile); while Pletcher sends out...