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Wildcat Red (D’wildcat) exited his fifth-place effort in Saturday’s Sunshine Millions Classic with a right hind injury, trainer Jose Garoffalo reported Monday. The 4-year-old will undergo a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam this week at the Palm Beach Equine Clinic in Wellington. “He had a problem in his back, probably a torn muscle or a torn...
One of the most intriguing groups assembled so far in 2015 line up in Saturday’s GII Forward Gal S. at Gulfstream Park. Jay Em Ess Stable’s By the Moon (Indian Charlie) boasts the field’s best credentials, having finished second to Condo Commando (Tiz Wonderful) and in front of next-out Grade I winner Angela Renee (Bernardini) in the...
by T.D. Thornton The concept of an equine biological passport (EBP) is not new. But the tone and urgency of its discussion among veterinary and regulatory authorities changed this week in the wake of the cobalt scandal in Australia, where news reports characterized Racing New South Wales officials as “scrambling” to introduce EBPs as a...
Amber Sky (Aus) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}), last year’s G1 Al Quoz Sprint hero, will look to get back to the winner’s circle for the first time since in defense of his title in the Centenary Sprint Cup going the straight five furlongs this afternoon at Sha Tin. The bay gelding ran a hole in the...
Saturday, Gulfstream Park LAMBHOLM SOUTH HOLY BULL S.-GII, $400,000, GPX, 1-24, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 1:43 3/5, ft. 1–@UPSTART, 116, r, 3, by Flatter 1st Dam: Party Silks, by Touch Gold 2nd Dam: Intend to Win, by Housebuster 3rd Dam: Intently, by Drone ($130,000 yrl ’13 FTNAUG). O-Ralph M Evans; B-Mrs Gerald A Nielsen (NY); T-Richard A...
Four-time G1 winner Silent Achiever (NZ) (O’Reilly {NZ}) is continuing her preparation ahead of an international Autumn campaign that could see her take on Europe’s finest in the G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. The 7-year-old pleased connections in a racecourse gallop at Ellerslie, Jan. 25, and trained Roger James told racenet.com.au, “She’s very well...
Brown, Klein and Lebherz’s Disinctiv Passion (With Distinction) gets the slight morning line nod at 2-1 in a compact, but intriguing renewal of Santa Anita’s GII Palos Verdes S. The fleet-footed Jeff Bonde trainee raced just three times last season, finishing second in Los Alamitos Racecourse’s Katella S. Sept. 20 before annexing a grassy five-furlong optional claimer...
Three-time champion Australian sire Redoute’s Choice (Aus) (Danehill–Shantha’s Choice {Aus}, by Canny Lad {Aus}) will be available to cover a limited number of mares on northern hemisphere time at John Messara’s Arrowfield Stud reported Racing Post. The 18-year-old previously stood at the Aga Khan’s Haras de Bonneval in France for the 2013 and 2014 northern hemisphere seasons...
This year’s 1 1/6-mile GIII Bayakoa S. at Oaklawn appears to be a rematch of the track-and-trip Pippin S. with seven of that race’s nine contenders, including the top four finishers, returning here. A traditional prep for the GI Apple Blossom S. Apr. 10, this is the first time the Bayakoa is being run as...
Khalid Abdullah’s Kind (Ire) (Danehill), the dam of undefeated champion Frankel (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) as well as champion Noble Mission (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) and stakes winners Bullet Train (GB) (Sadler’s Wells) and Joyeuse (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), will be bred to Kingman (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) this year, according to Racing Post. Like Kind and all her progeny, Kingman...
by Alan Carasso OK, let me get one thing out in the open, straight away. I am not Lucas Marquardt, OK? I don’t look like him (he’s prettier), I don’t have his sense of humor (he’s funnier and wittier) and I don’t write as well (as in nowhere near as well). Now that I’ve successfully...
Australian Horse of the Year and joint top-rated sprinter in the world Lankan Rupee (Aus) (Redoute’s Choice {Aus}) returns from a summer break in the G1 Black Caviar Lightning S. at Flemington Saturday, where he is set for an eagerly anticipated clash with Team Hawkes’ unbeaten 4-year-old Deep Field (Aus) (Northern Meteor {Aus}) and Chris Waller’s top 3-year-old Brazen Beau...