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Last week it was Dubawi week at Tattersalls’ October Book 1 yearling sale, as the Maktoum family and friends bought all 10 which sold during Book 1, for an average of nearly $1.1-million, topping even the mighty Galileo at the sales. This week his son, Poet’s Voice, consolidated his own lead among 2014 first-crop yearling sires, with a record Book...
BOTTI PAIR FACE OFF AGAIN Today’s G1 Gran Premio Del Jockey Club provides an opportunity for Italy’s best to showcase their talents over 1 1/2 miles, and while the field is short on quantity it is not lacking in quality, with the Stefano Botti-trained pair Dylan Mouth (Ire) (Dylan Thomas {Ire}) and Biz the Nurse (Ire) (Oratorio {Ire}) likely...
Last year’s GI Garden City S. heroine Alterite (Fr) (Literato {Fr}–Ana Luna {GB}, by Dream Well {Fr}) has been added to the Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale scheduled for Dec. 6-9 at Deauville, France. The Martin Schwartz-owned bay was a listed winner and Group 1 placed in the Prix Marcel Boussac-Criterium Des Pouliches for her breeder Ecurie...
HENDERSON NEW ASCOT CHIEF EXECUTIVE Guy Henderson, a former international business lawyer and equity partner with the global law firm Allen & Overy, has been appointed Chief Executive of Ascot Racecourse, replacing the retiring Charles Barnett. Henderson will take up his post in January. As part of Allen & Overy, Henderson led its UK and...
ONE LAST SHOT Sunday’s G1 Kikuka Sho at Kyoto Racecourse marks the final Japanese Classic of the season, and with G1 Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas) hero Isla Bonita sitting this one out in preference for the G1 Tenno Sho Autumn Nov. 2, only G1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) winner One and Only (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn})...
Capo Bastone (Street Boss–Fight to Love, by Fit to Fight), winner of the 2013 GI King’s Bishop S., will be retired from racing. The Eclipse colorbearer will not run in the Breeders’ Cup as originally planned, and will sell at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale as hip 193. “Our partners were very much looking forward to running Capo...
At the Breeders’ Cup because: Part owner of GI Breeders’ Cup Classic contender Cigar Street (Street Sense). Occupation: Basketball player Born: Houston, Texas Nickname: Sweet Lou How he become involved in racing: [Owner and bloodstock agent] Jake [Ballis] and I grew up together and we played basketball together since we were really young. His dad was involved in racing a...
A spectacular sunrise embellished with reddish and pinkish hues greeted the largest crowd of the week on a very comfortable morning at beautiful Santa Anita Park Thursday. With the Classic big three of California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit),Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}) and Tonalist (Tapit) all up and at ‘em early, the popular Trackside Breakfast Marquee was already packed by 7...
Shortly after the results for the 2012 GI Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile were made official, Gainesway Farm’s Antony Beck and Michael Gainesway stood in the shedrow of trainer Steve Asmussen’s stable. Before them was the winner of the race, the 4-year-old Tapizar, a powerful-looking son of Gainesway’s rising star Tapit who was still fired up from his...
By Emma Berry Author’s note: Recent tragic events at the racecourse – particularly the deaths of two horses, Admire Rakti and Araldo, after the Melbourne Cup – caused me to revisit a short story I wrote some years ago after a horse trained here at our Newmarket stables, Benedict, lost his life in the Lincoln....
By Christie DeBernardis Last term’s GI Del Mar Oaks victress Discreet Marq (Discreet Cat) will return to the scene of her greatest triumph in hopes of collecting her second Grade I win while making her first start for her new owners Moyglare Stud in the GI Matriarch S. Nov. 30. The gray worked five furlongs over the...
Born To Sea (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), whose first foals proved popular at last week’s Goffs November Foal Sale, will not stand at Rathasker Stud for 2015, the farm revealed on Twitter. The tweet read, “It has been decided by mutual agreement that Born To Sea will not stand at Rathasker for 2015 season. For nominations...