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ARQANA RNA XCELLENCE TO FRANKEL By Kelsey Riley Martin Schwartz’s Xcellence (Fr) (Champs Elysees {GB}), a €950,000 buyback from Arqana’s December Breeding Stock Sale Dec. 6, will be bred to Frankel next year, according to Michel Zerolo of Haras des Capucines, which consigned the 3-year-old in Deauville. “The three horses that were considered were Frankel, Galileo and...
Tom Durkin, the recently retired longtime racecaller for the New York Racing Association, Breeders’ Cup and Triple Crown, will be honored with the Eclipse Award of Merit for a lifetime of outstanding achievement in the industry. It will be the 39th time the honor has been awarded. “This is quite an honor and quite a...
ASAHI HAI FUTURITY S.-G1, ¥135,820,000, Hanshin, 12-21, 2yo, c&f, 1600mT, 1:35.90, gd. 1–@#DANON PLATINA (JPN), 121, c, 2, by Deep Impact (Jpn) 1st Dam: Badeelah, by Unbridled’s Song 2nd Dam: Magical Allure, by General Meeting 3rd Dam: Rare Lady, by Never Bend O-Danox Inc; B-Chiyoda Farm; T-Sakae Kunieda; J-Masayoshi Ebina. ¥71,274,000. Lifetime Record: 4-3-1-0. Werk Nick Rating:...
The biggest and best of the Japanese turf congregate at Nakayama this afternoon for the G1 Arima Kinen, the Grand Prix of Japan, whose participants are selected–in part–by the public. Making his final career appearance today is Just a Way (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn}), who will look to follow in the hoofprints of his sire, successful in...
by Bill Finley The horse eats nothing but soup and there was time you would have had to have been nuts to believe he’d ever amount to anything. Speechify (Harlan’s Holiday) is not your ordinary horse. Not only is he a two-time stakes winner, but he has overcome problems that would have ended the racing careers of...
By Lucas Marquardt After a rock-solid Book 1 kept pace well from last year, Keeneland January saw declines during yesterday’s Book 2 opener in Lexington. The session average of $16,836, from 242 horses sold, was down 30.4%, from $24,200. The median of $8,250 was off 45%, from $15,000. That tugged down the cumulative average, which...
In a move to expedite the resolution of Australia’s cobalt scandal, Racing Victoria will redirect investigators from its integrity department to work on the case, according to Racing and Sports. Earlier this week, horses in the care of leading trainers Peter Moody, Mark Kavanagh and Danny O’Brien tested positive for elevated levels of cobalt. “We...
PASSPORTS A PRIORITY FOR RACING NSW Racing New South Wales, the governing body for racing in that Australian state, has revealed that it is working on the development of an equine biological passport that would monitor physiological changes in a horse throughout its racing career, according to Racing and Sports. The passport would be similar...
Team Valor’s Euro Charline (GB) (Myboycharlie {Ire}) is set to target the G1 Dubai Turf, formerly known as the Dubai Duty Free, after pleasing trainer Marco Botti in her morning exercise. The 4yo filly spent has not been seen since her victory in the GI Beverly D. S., Aug. 16, having been sidelined through injury....
Entries for this year’s G1 Investec Oaks will close Tuesday, Apr. 14, six weeks later than the original date in early March, officials at Epsom Downs announced yesterday. The G1 Investec Coronation Cup will also close that day, a week later than originally programmed. “We have felt for some time that the first week of...
By T.D. Thornton Terry Finley’s protest to reconcile what he claims was a flawed-process loss in the 2014 presidential election has been met with a legal riposte from officials at the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association. Among the highlights in 244 pages of affidavits and exhibits released Friday are: 1) details of how NYTHA officials...
Longtime NBC Sports handicapper Bob Neumeier won Saturday’s inaugural NTRA NHC Charity Challenge in Las Vegas. With a final mythical bankroll of $65, Neumeier bested runner-up Mike Watchmaker of the Daily Racing Form, who checked in with $62.40. The popular handicapper, who suffered a serious stroke just prior to last year’s Breeders’ Cup, never led...